Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Microsoft
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 13.04% 12.50% 13.04%
As % of the Vendors category 52.94% 35.29% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £500 £584 £373
25th Percentile - - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £635 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -5.93% +28.57%
75th Percentile £750 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +7.22% +5.88% -5.56%

All Vendors
Herefordshire

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17 17 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 24.64% 35.42% 47.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 6
10th Percentile £468 £513 £400
25th Percentile £511 £550 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +11.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £750 £635 £659
90th Percentile £825 - £688
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £500 £470
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.38% -5.05%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Herefordshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ledbury - 7 £650 -
Ross-on-Wye - 1 £400 - 2
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Serverless
3 7 (77.78%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (77.78%) GitHub
3 7 (77.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (77.78%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Backend Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) FastAPI
1 7 (77.78%) Flask
1 7 (77.78%) GraphQL
1 7 (77.78%) gRPC
1 7 (77.78%) REST
1 7 (77.78%) WebSockets
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Containerisation
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) API Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Domain Models
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Go
2 8 (88.89%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) DV Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Grafana
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
1 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform