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 1 September 2026, 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 8 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 5.80% 13.89% 10.71%
As % of the Vendors category 11.59% 32.26% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - - £147
25th Percentile £413 £525 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £250
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +130.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £400
90th Percentile £645 £606 -
West Midlands median daily rate £445 £420 £415
% change year-on-year +5.95% +1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £13.66 - -
25th Percentile £15.10 - -
Median hourly rate £18.58 - -
75th Percentile £19.67 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -35.30% +114.29% -28.21%

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 69 31 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 50.00% 43.06% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 18
10th Percentile £338 £268 £158
25th Percentile £425 £525 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +43.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £561
90th Percentile £675 £811 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 1
10th Percentile £13.38 - -
25th Percentile £17.57 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £20.62 £24.66 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% -64.77% +278.38%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.06
% change year-on-year -16.67% +19.70% +25.31%

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 1 September 2026.

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 1 September 2026. 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
Worcester +4 2 - - 21
Malvern +2 1 £700 +24.44% 1
Kidderminster -3 1 £425 - 4
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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
1 1 (12.50%) Flask
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) gRPC
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) e-Learning
1 2 (25.00%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (25.00%) Photography
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) AI Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Line Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) SDET
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Trend Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe