Microsoft Contracts in Staffordshire

Microsoft
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 14 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 22.95% 9.84% 13.02%
As % of the Vendors category 42.42% 26.67% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 20
10th Percentile - £121 £145
25th Percentile - £131 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 £200 £175
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile - £313 £350
90th Percentile £296 £433 £444
West Midlands median daily rate £388 £415 £430
% change year-on-year -6.63% -3.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.46 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £17.26 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £31.80 -
90th Percentile - £35.97 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.94 £14.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +128.14% -22.22% +16.24%

All Vendors
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 33 45 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 54.10% 36.89% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 50
10th Percentile - £149 £160
25th Percentile £140 £231 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +26.92%
75th Percentile £488 £481 £529
90th Percentile £499 £600 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £461 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 0
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.20 -
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.71 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £15.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.25% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £27.63 -
90th Percentile £37.50 £50.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £21.23 £22.50
% change year-on-year +41.34% -5.67% +34.33%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Staffordshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Staffordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Staffordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Staffordshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Staffordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Stafford +2 6 - - 26
Uttoxeter -3 4 £140 +12.00%
Stoke-on-Trent +3 3 £400 +23.08% 82
Burton-upon-Trent 0 1 - - 16
Microsoft
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (35.71%) DHCP
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
1 5 (35.71%) LAN
1 5 (35.71%) PuTTY
1 5 (35.71%) WAN
1 5 (35.71%) Wireless
1 5 (35.71%) WLAN
2 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Support Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Junior
3 3 (21.43%) Junior IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) Build Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Hardware Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Virtual Team
2 4 (28.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Process Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Project Planning
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (7.14%) ITSM
5 1 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management
5 1 (7.14%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (7.14%) System Testing
5 1 (7.14%) User Experience
5 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) CCNA
2 5 (35.71%) CCNP
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Peregrine
2 5 (35.71%) Remedy
3 1 (7.14%) Proofpoint