Microsoft Contracts in Solihull

Microsoft
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 28 6
Rank change year-on-year +23 -22 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 7 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 20.59% 1.60% 16.95%
As % of the Vendors category 25.93% 2.22% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £414 £138 -
25th Percentile £461 £143 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £155 £525
Median % change year-on-year +254.84% -70.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £597 £168 -
90th Percentile £599 £172 -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £456
% change year-on-year -5.88% -6.85% +7.35%

All Vendors
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 27 90 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 79.41% 72.00% 64.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 15
10th Percentile £298 £165 £281
25th Percentile £410 £300 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £375 £520
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% -27.88% +20.58%
75th Percentile £584 £388 £638
90th Percentile £599 £464 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £479 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £11.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.33% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Solihull

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Solihull

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Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Solihull over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Solihull

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Solihull

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) UniData
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Architect
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Architect
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) ArchiMate
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Domain Models
3 2 (28.57%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Sequence Diagram
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (14.29%) Symantec
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam
1 1 (14.29%) VMware