Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft Copilot
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 20 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.45% 0.42% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.35% 1.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £314 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £613 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £559 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 374 72 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 45.89% 30.25% 22.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 53 71
10th Percentile £363 £412 £250
25th Percentile £417 £470 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £544 £600 £598
90th Percentile £624 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -6.79% -0.48% -4.55%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in Sheffield

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 13 (65.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 12 (60.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365 Expert
2 3 (15.00%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (5.00%) Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Observability
1 12 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (55.00%) Problem Management
3 10 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (5.00%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (5.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (5.00%) Runbook
5 1 (5.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Microsoft