Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Middlesbrough

Microsoft
North Yorkshire > Middlesbrough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Middlesbrough 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 4 February 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
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesbrough 44.44% - 17.86%
As % of the Vendors category 100.00% - 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £319 - £201
25th Percentile £335 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.67%
75th Percentile £428 - £475
90th Percentile £453 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £363 £300 £325
% change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.57
Median hourly rate £31.86 - £14.41
75th Percentile - - £15.24
90th Percentile - - -
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £31.86 £10.50 £18.20
% change year-on-year +203.43% -42.32% -15.34%

All Vendors
Middlesbrough

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 Middlesbrough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4 1 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesbrough 44.44% 50.00% 64.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 17
10th Percentile £319 - £263
25th Percentile £335 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +37.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £428 - £675
90th Percentile £453 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +28.48% -12.44% +13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.57
Median hourly rate £31.86 - £14.41
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.66%
75th Percentile - - £15.24
90th Percentile - - -
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £55.00 £10.50 £14.41
% change year-on-year +423.81% -27.11% -28.42%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesbrough

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Middlesbrough

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Daily Rate Trend in Middlesbrough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesbrough citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Middlesbrough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Middlesbrough over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Middlesbrough

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Hourly Rate Trend in Middlesbrough

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesbrough citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesbrough 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) TestRail
1 3 (75.00%) Zephyr
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Test Management
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune