Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Microsoft
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 8 November 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 23 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 20.91% 11.76% 18.07%
As % of the Vendors category 47.92% 45.45% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 10
10th Percentile - £129 £196
25th Percentile £525 £151 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £208 £310
Median % change year-on-year +177.11% -33.06% -27.06%
75th Percentile £650 £400 £388
90th Percentile £750 - £564
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.67% +5.76% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £16.15 - -
25th Percentile £16.88 - £17.75
Median hourly rate £19.17 - £18.50
75th Percentile £21.88 - £19.25
90th Percentile £22.85 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.45 £21.50
% change year-on-year -1.48% +41.63% +49.72%

All Vendors
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 48 22 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 43.64% 25.88% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 15 27
10th Percentile £519 £141 £200
25th Percentile £525 £204 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £300 £525
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -42.86% +18.64%
75th Percentile £650 £460 £616
90th Percentile £750 £520 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +1.10% +7.53% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £16.15 - -
25th Percentile £16.88 £65.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £19.17 £70.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.61% +278.38% +15.84%
75th Percentile £21.88 £75.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £22.85 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.45 £23.00
% change year-on-year -1.48% +32.39% +39.39%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Worcestershire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Malvern - 17 £575 - 1
Kidderminster - 2 £263 - 2
Worcester -9 1 - - 9
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Azure Key Vault
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (30.43%) Serverless
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (30.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) GitLab
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Backend Developer
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
1 7 (30.43%) Python Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Administrator
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Configuration Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) FastAPI
1 7 (30.43%) Flask
1 7 (30.43%) GraphQL
1 7 (30.43%) gRPC
1 7 (30.43%) REST
1 7 (30.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) Change Control
4 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
4 6 (26.09%) ITIL
4 6 (26.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Business Continuity
6 4 (17.39%) Change Management
6 4 (17.39%) Coaching
6 4 (17.39%) Data Management
6 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (17.39%) Programme Delivery
6 4 (17.39%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) Go
2 7 (30.43%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (34.78%) DV Cleared
4 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Certification
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
2 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (17.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Grafana
2 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
3 5 (21.74%) SCCM
4 4 (17.39%) Ansible
5 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.35%) SAP