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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 16 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 18.82% 12.09% 21.92%
As % of the Vendors category 40.00% 50.00% 47.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 15
10th Percentile - £129 £206
25th Percentile £525 £151 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £208 £450
Median % change year-on-year +177.11% -53.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £400 £469
90th Percentile £650 - £570
West Midlands median daily rate £431 £425 £406
% change year-on-year +1.41% +4.62% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £18.50
75th Percentile £23.50 - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.84% +52.81% +29.16%

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 40 22 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 47.06% 24.18% 46.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 30
10th Percentile £299 £144 £246
25th Percentile £525 £227 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -22.22% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £520 £559
90th Percentile £660 £548 £601
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £65.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £70.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.57% +278.38% +32.14%
75th Percentile £23.50 £75.00 £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% +29.61%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 - 10 £563 - 1
Worcester -4 2 - - 22
Kidderminster - 2 £263 - 4
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (18.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) GitLab
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Backend Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (6.25%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) NHS Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Configuration Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Technician
3 1 (6.25%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) FastAPI
1 3 (18.75%) Flask
1 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
1 3 (18.75%) gRPC
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 4 (25.00%) Change Control
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (25.00%) Coaching
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Data Management
4 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Go
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) Firmware
3 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) SCCM
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Atlassian