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 29 August 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 10 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 7.09% 13.89% 12.05%
As % of the Vendors category 14.49% 32.26% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile - - £149
25th Percentile £413 £525 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £325
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +76.92% -27.78%
75th Percentile £684 £588 £400
90th Percentile £750 £606 £430
West Midlands median daily rate £447 £420 £415
% change year-on-year +6.43% +1.20% -1.19%
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 £20.06
% change year-on-year -35.30% +49.53% +2.88%

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 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 48.94% 43.06% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 19
10th Percentile £313 £268 £158
25th Percentile £425 £525 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +43.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £548
90th Percentile £675 £811 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -2.39% -3.90% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 1
10th Percentile £13.79 - -
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 £45.50 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £26.13
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.83% +13.59%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 - - 23
Malvern +2 2 £700 +24.44% 1
Kidderminster -3 1 £425 - 5
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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (20.00%) Flask
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) gRPC
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 2 (20.00%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (20.00%) Photography
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) AI
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) AI Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) SDET
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe