Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Copilot
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.56% 0.22% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.38% 0.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £492 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £731 - -
75th Percentile £967 - -
90th Percentile £1,107 - -
East of England median daily rate £510 - £625

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hertfordshire

Microsoft Copilot falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 148 119 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 16.50% 26.04% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 78 44
10th Percentile £200 £348 £230
25th Percentile £400 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £645 £675 £685
East of England median daily rate £486 £505 £420
% change year-on-year -3.71% +20.24% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £20.83 -
25th Percentile £20.75 £29.37 -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £47.57 £14.41
Median % change year-on-year -54.80% +230.12% -77.83%
75th Percentile £22.25 £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £31.64 £16.30
% change year-on-year -44.69% +94.11% -18.50%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microsoft Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Copilot within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Hatfield +2 2 £263 -
Stevenage - 1 - - 5
Watford - 1 - - 1
Microsoft Copilot
East of England

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (20.00%) P3O
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow