Microsoft Contracts in Cheltenham

Microsoft
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 2 34 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 2.47% 13.39% 5.49%
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% 47.89% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £164 £203
25th Percentile £213 £185 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £525 £360
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +45.83% -10.00%
75th Percentile £238 £625 -
90th Percentile - - £399
Gloucestershire median daily rate £325 £470 £440
% change year-on-year -30.85% +6.82% +13.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £22.95
25th Percentile - £15.50 £23.63
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - -39.62% -
75th Percentile - £16.50 £32.13
90th Percentile - - £34.45
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £14.84 £16.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -7.25% -55.56% +65.52%

All Vendors
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22 71 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 27.16% 27.95% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 25
10th Percentile £271 £313 £332
25th Percentile £525 £459 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £700
90th Percentile £621 £731 £715
Gloucestershire median daily rate £434 £531 £500
% change year-on-year -18.31% +6.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - £15.50 £24.19
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year - -48.80% +123.21%
75th Percentile - £16.50 £50.63
90th Percentile - - £76.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £47.28
% change year-on-year -48.57% +48.07% +103.33%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cheltenham

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Microsoft

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Microsoft

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Reinsurance
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware