Microsoft Contracts in Telford

Microsoft
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 26 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 9 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 24 18 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 14.29% 19.15% 6.45%
As % of the Vendors category 26.37% 31.03% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 2
10th Percentile £333 £119 £313
25th Percentile £428 £140 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £300 £388
Median % change year-on-year +71.95% -22.81% -23.55%
75th Percentile £537 £425 £445
90th Percentile £541 £515 £475
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £300 £388
% change year-on-year +71.67% -22.68% -22.40%

All Vendors
Telford

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 Telford.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 91 58 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 54.17% 61.70% 77.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 52 31
10th Percentile £325 £174 £463
25th Percentile £447 £334 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +43.85% -33.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £540 £472 £551
90th Percentile £551 £515 £573
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £358 £540
% change year-on-year +43.85% -33.70% +8.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Telford

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Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Telford over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Telford

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Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Microsoft

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 8 (33.33%) SAS
2 5 (20.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (4.17%) Apache
4 1 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) PaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) IaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.50%) SaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DHCP
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 5 (20.83%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 3 (12.50%) Pentaho
2 3 (12.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) PVCS
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Engagement Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Administrator
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Administrator
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Configuration Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Release Manager
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Environment Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
1 10 (41.67%) Analytics
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
4 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 6 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 6 (25.00%) Workflow
5 5 (20.83%) Budget Management
5 5 (20.83%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Project Planning
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Visual Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) PMO
2 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) SAP
3 4 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 4 (16.67%) Dynatrace
4 3 (12.50%) Denodo
4 3 (12.50%) Talend
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk