Microsoft Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bath

Microsoft Engineer
Somerset > Bath

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in Bath is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 2.08% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £450 £450 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bath

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bath. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bath with a recognized job title 45 63 58
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 94.03% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 51
10th Percentile £140 £186 £168
25th Percentile £350 £209 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £288 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.61% -36.11% -
75th Percentile £459 £475 £538
90th Percentile £538 £614 £575
Somerset median daily rate £350 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -31.58% -
75th Percentile - £15.00 £19.50
90th Percentile - £15.90 -
Somerset median hourly rate £40.54 £13.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year +211.85% -74.95% +15.31%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Microsoft Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

Microsoft Engineer job vacancy trend in Bath

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, Microsoft Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bath region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft