Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Northwich

Microsoft
Cheshire > Northwich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northwich 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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Northwich 26.32% 25.00% 52.94%
As % of the Vendors category 71.43% 25.00% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £165 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.75% - -
75th Percentile £300 £425 -
90th Percentile £341 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £474 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.41% -15.00% +11.11%

All Vendors
Northwich

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 Northwich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northwich 36.84% 100.00% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £165 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.75% - -
75th Percentile £300 £488 -
90th Percentile £341 £525 -
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £448 £524
% change year-on-year +11.73% -14.56% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £17.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.75 £20.91 £14.75
% change year-on-year +27.93% +41.76% -34.53%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Northwich

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Northwich

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Northwich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northwich citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Northwich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Northwich over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Northwich

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Northwich

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northwich citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northwich 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 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) iPad
2 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google