Microsoft Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 234 269 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.56% 13.02% 16.67%
As % of the Vendors category 33.10% 29.72% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 183 273
10th Percentile £168 £179 £169
25th Percentile £235 £287 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £415 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -3.49% -
75th Percentile £538 £523 £588
90th Percentile £606 £649 £688
England median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 13
10th Percentile £14.84 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £28.55 £11.06 £14.36
Median hourly rate £31.94 £14.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.14% -22.22% +16.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £26.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - £55.25 £38.60
England median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £22.00
% change year-on-year +40.10% -27.00% +25.71%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 707 905 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.01% 43.80% 48.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 604 693
10th Percentile £198 £250 £214
25th Percentile £313 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 51 23
10th Percentile £13.78 £11.06 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.96 £13.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.95 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.38% -11.33% +34.33%
75th Percentile £42.61 £28.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £91.20
England median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
% change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Warwickshire +1 66 £300 -48.94% 76
Birmingham -2 56 £400 -5.88% 188
Coventry +6 35 £281 -29.69% 51
Solihull +14 20 £471 +2.62% 14
Shropshire +2 20 £483 +60.92% 38
Staffordshire +2 14 £140 -30.00% 144
Worcestershire -4 7 £900 +350.00% 44
Herefordshire +9 3 £900 +53.45% 17
Wolverhampton +1 3 £263 -47.29% 28
Walsall -1 1 - - 16
Microsoft
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 27 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.71%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (14.53%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.56%) Adobe Captivate
5 6 (2.56%) Maya
6 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.43%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.56%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.85%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.85%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.06%) Azure
2 64 (27.35%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (14.53%) Power Platform
4 29 (12.39%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 13 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 12 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (4.70%) AWS
8 11 (4.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (4.70%) OneDrive
9 10 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.56%) Collibra
12 6 (2.56%) GCP
13 4 (1.71%) GitHub
13 4 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.55%) Firewall
2 15 (6.41%) DNS
3 13 (5.56%) DHCP
4 10 (4.27%) Wireless
5 8 (3.42%) VPN
6 6 (2.56%) LAN
6 6 (2.56%) WAN
7 5 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (2.14%) PuTTY
7 5 (2.14%) WLAN
8 4 (1.71%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.28%) Network Security
9 3 (1.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.85%) IPsec
10 2 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.85%) Telepresence
10 2 (0.85%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.69%) Power BI
2 16 (6.84%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.99%) Delta Lake
5 7 (2.99%) GIS
5 7 (2.99%) Tableau
6 5 (2.14%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.28%) Metadata
8 3 (1.28%) MySQL
9 2 (0.85%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.85%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.27%) JIRA
2 2 (0.85%) Git
2 2 (0.85%) GitLab
2 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.43%) NUnit
3 1 (0.43%) Toad
3 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 104 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (14.96%) Finance
4 16 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.70%) Automotive
6 11 (4.70%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.56%) Games
8 5 (2.14%) Legal
9 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (17.09%) Analyst
2 24 (10.26%) Architect
3 16 (6.84%) Support Assistant
4 15 (6.41%) Consultant
5 13 (5.56%) Support Analyst
6 12 (5.13%) Developer
6 12 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.70%) Lead
7 11 (4.70%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.27%) Data Analyst
8 10 (4.27%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.42%) Administrator
9 8 (3.42%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (3.42%) IT Engineer
10 7 (2.99%) 1st Line Support
10 7 (2.99%) Data Architect
10 7 (2.99%) Engagement Manager
11 6 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.56%) IT Support
11 6 (2.56%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.98%) .NET
2 11 (4.70%) HTML
3 8 (3.42%) CSS
4 7 (2.99%) Kafka
5 6 (2.56%) Django
5 6 (2.56%) Unreal Engine
5 6 (2.56%) V-Ray
6 5 (2.14%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.71%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.28%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.28%) Middleware
9 2 (0.85%) ADO
9 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.85%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.85%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.85%) Web Services
10 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.99%) IoT
2 7 (2.99%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.99%) Security Posture
3 6 (2.56%) Animation
3 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.56%) SCADA
3 6 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
3 6 (2.56%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.14%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.71%) Replication
5 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.28%) PKI
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.93%) Windows
2 20 (8.55%) Windows 10
3 8 (3.42%) Android
3 8 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.14%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) SUSE
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (17.09%) ITIL
3 39 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 37 (15.81%) Agile
5 32 (13.68%) Migration
6 27 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (10.68%) DevOps
8 23 (9.83%) Change Management
9 22 (9.40%) Project Delivery
10 21 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (7.26%) Computer Science
11 17 (7.26%) Process Improvement
11 17 (7.26%) Test Scripting
12 16 (6.84%) Project Management
13 15 (6.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (5.98%) CI/CD
14 14 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (5.56%) Analytics
15 13 (5.56%) Data Governance
15 13 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.51%) SQL
2 22 (9.40%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.70%) Python
4 10 (4.27%) C#
5 8 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.99%) Java
7 6 (2.56%) C++
7 6 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.43%) Perl
9 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.43%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 33 (14.10%) Degree
2 23 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.99%) MCSE
7 6 (2.56%) CCNA
7 6 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.14%) CCNP
9 4 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.28%) CISSP
11 2 (0.85%) CISM
11 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.85%) MCP
11 2 (0.85%) OCP
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.40%) SLA
2 14 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.98%) PMO
3 8 (3.42%) GDPR
4 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.71%) QA
5 3 (1.28%) NIST
6 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.85%) GRC
6 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) COSHH
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.71%) Docker
3 4 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
5 1 (0.43%) XenApp
5 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (8.97%) SCCM
3 9 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.42%) Terraform
5 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.28%) Grafana
7 2 (0.85%) Ansible
7 2 (0.85%) Nagios
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (9.83%) Cisco
2 19 (8.12%) SAP
3 11 (4.70%) Oracle
4 10 (4.27%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.27%) VMware
5 8 (3.42%) Databricks
6 7 (2.99%) Apple
7 6 (2.56%) Adobe
7 6 (2.56%) Autodesk
7 6 (2.56%) Dell
7 6 (2.56%) HP
7 6 (2.56%) Informatica
7 6 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.14%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.14%) Peregrine
8 5 (2.14%) Remedy
9 4 (1.71%) Citrix
9 4 (1.71%) Google
10 3 (1.28%) Juniper
10 3 (1.28%) Veeam