Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Wolverhampton

Microsoft
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wolverhampton 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 21 December 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wolverhampton 15.38% 19.35% 6.25%
As % of the Vendors category 22.22% 54.55% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £264 £217 -
25th Percentile £289 £282 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 £341 £150
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +127.50% -60.00%
75th Percentile £400 £392 -
90th Percentile £422 £455 -
West Midlands median daily rate £478 £443 £425
% change year-on-year +7.73% +4.29% -5.56%

All Vendors
Wolverhampton

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 Wolverhampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wolverhampton 69.23% 35.48% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £200 £232 £201
25th Percentile £248 £297 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £341 £360
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% -5.21% -4.00%
75th Percentile £438 £463 £425
90th Percentile £513 £712 £470
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.99 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £24.86 £22.75
% change year-on-year +1.16% +9.29% +28.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wolverhampton

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Wolverhampton

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Daily Rate Trend in Wolverhampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wolverhampton citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wolverhampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Wolverhampton over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Wolverhampton

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wolverhampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wolverhampton citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wolverhampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware