Microsoft Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 27 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 13.43% 17.27% 5.56%
As % of the Vendors category 25.96% 29.69% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 1
10th Percentile £333 £119 -
25th Percentile £428 £141 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £300 £480
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% -37.50% -4.48%
75th Percentile £537 £420 £495
90th Percentile £541 £514 -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £415 £414
% change year-on-year -3.61% +0.30% -5.43%

All Vendors
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 104 64 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 51.74% 58.18% 72.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 54 32
10th Percentile £325 £201 £463
25th Percentile £448 £338 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +44.34% -33.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £540 £469 £551
90th Percentile £551 £514 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -4.04%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Shropshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Shropshire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Shropshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Shropshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Shropshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Shropshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Shropshire

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Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 16 August 2025. 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
Telford -4 26 £515 +71.95% 13
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 9 (33.33%) SAS
2 5 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (3.70%) Confluence
4 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) PaaS
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (11.11%) AWS KMS
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.11%) IaaS
5 3 (11.11%) SaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) DHCP
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 6 (22.22%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 4 (14.81%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 3 (11.11%) Pentaho
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) GitLab
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) PVCS
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Engagement Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Administrator
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Administrator
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Configuration Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Release Manager
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (3.70%) DBA
5 1 (3.70%) Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Environment Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (3.70%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
1 11 (40.74%) Analytics
1 11 (40.74%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
4 7 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (25.93%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (25.93%) Migration
4 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
4 7 (25.93%) Test Strategy
4 7 (25.93%) Workflow
5 6 (22.22%) Budget Management
5 6 (22.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Project Planning
5 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (22.22%) Visual Analytics
5 6 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.70%) OCP
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) PMO
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) SAP
3 4 (14.81%) AppDynamics
3 4 (14.81%) Dynatrace
4 3 (11.11%) Denodo
4 3 (11.11%) Talend
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk