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 19 September 2026, 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 15.09% 6.25% 8.20%
As % of the Vendors category 61.54% 27.27% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - - £584
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £635
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.36% -5.93%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £430 £431 £425
% change year-on-year -0.23% +1.41% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £60.20 - -
25th Percentile £60.51 - -
Median hourly rate £65.57 - -
75th Percentile £70.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £30.56
% change year-on-year -35.30% -1.84% +52.81%

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 13 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 24.53% 22.92% 31.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 12
10th Percentile - £468 £575
25th Percentile - £508 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £624
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +2.25% +13.36%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £635
90th Percentile £630 £900 £716
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £64.07 - -
75th Percentile £70.32 - -
90th Percentile £70.59 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -28.33% -4.76% +40.00%

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

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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

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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

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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 19 September 2026. 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
Hereford - 6 £500 - 11
Microsoft
West Midlands

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) Skype
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Billing
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) CentOS
2 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Case Management
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (50.00%) SIEM
1 4 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) VMware