Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Copilot
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 78 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 20 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.29% 0.37% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.13% 1.22% -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 390 82 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.57% 30.04% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 62 83
10th Percentile £347 £273 £250
25th Percentile £413 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £594
90th Percentile £624 £649 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -63.64%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Copilot within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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
Sheffield -38 20 £559 - 8
Microsoft Copilot
Yorkshire

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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