Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Malvern

Microsoft
Worcestershire > Malvern

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Malvern 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 9 September 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Malvern 20.00% - 25.00%
As % of the Vendors category 54.55% - 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.94%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £619 - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £250 £450
% change year-on-year +130.00% -44.44% +20.00%

All Vendors
Malvern

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 Malvern.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Malvern 36.67% 15.38% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -32.69%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £581
90th Percentile £900 - £608
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +43.75% -11.11% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £24.66 £70.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -64.77% +278.38% +32.14%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Malvern

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Malvern.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Malvern

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Malvern

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Malvern citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Malvern

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Malvern citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Malvern by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (16.67%) gRPC
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) SCCM
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian