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 14 May 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
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 14 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 9.40% 10.42% 20.00%
As % of the Vendors category 31.11% 27.78% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile £413 - £185
25th Percentile £591 - £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £900 £213
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +323.53% -55.26%
75th Percentile £750 - £400
90th Percentile - - £455
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £410
% change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £10.50
75th Percentile - - £10.90
90th Percentile - - £11.61
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% +35.71% -16.21%

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 45 18 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 30.20% 37.50% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 21
10th Percentile £163 £110 £190
25th Percentile £413 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £145 £450
Median % change year-on-year +317.24% -67.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £709 £850 £575
90th Percentile £750 £900 -
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £484 £450
% change year-on-year -3.15% +7.61% -8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile - £15.22 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.95 £10.50
Median hourly rate £27.75 £18.13 £11.11
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% +63.15% -37.29%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £57.40
90th Percentile £77.50 £21.40 £72.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.32 £16.82
% change year-on-year +85.51% +8.92% -18.76%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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
Malvern 0 6 £700 -22.22%
Kidderminster - 2 £425 - 1
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 5 (35.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (28.57%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 1 (7.14%) Aeronautics
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) FastAPI
1 4 (28.57%) Flask
1 4 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 4 (28.57%) gRPC
1 4 (28.57%) REST
1 4 (28.57%) WebSockets
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 5 (35.71%) Software Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) AI
7 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (14.29%) Data Validation
7 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Go
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) DV Cleared
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
5 5 (35.71%) CCNA
5 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
7 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) Grafana
3 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle