Microsoft Contracts 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 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 7 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 13.21% 16.48% 26.92%
As % of the Vendors category 38.89% 48.39% 49.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 24
10th Percentile - £155 £202
25th Percentile £525 £165 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £200 £450
Median % change year-on-year +350.00% -55.56% +56.52%
75th Percentile - £363 £538
90th Percentile - £410 £653
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £420 £428
% change year-on-year -10.71% -1.75% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £10.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.94 £14.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +128.14% -22.22% +16.24%

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 18 31 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 33.96% 34.07% 54.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 46
10th Percentile £145 £158 £206
25th Percentile £160 £200 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £900 £575 £550
90th Percentile - - £603
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £11.73 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.32% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £18.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +63.18% -18.29% +34.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Worcestershire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Worcestershire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Worcestershire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Worcestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Worcestershire

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 6 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
Malvern +2 5 £900 +125.00% 7
Worcester -1 4 £900 +260.00% 43
Kidderminster - 1 - - 3
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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) NHS Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform