Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Chippenham

Microsoft
Wiltshire > Chippenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chippenham 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 October 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Chippenham 40.00% 23.08% 14.29%
As % of the Vendors category 66.67% 27.27% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £170
25th Percentile £375 £338 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £228
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +64.84% -24.17%
75th Percentile £425 £413 £264
90th Percentile - - £286
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -2.60%

All Vendors
Chippenham

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 Chippenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3 11 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chippenham 60.00% 84.62% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £359 £184
25th Percentile £375 £391 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £300
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +62.50% -2.04%
75th Percentile £425 £591 £489
90th Percentile - £626 £602
Wiltshire median daily rate £594 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +10.47% +2.38% -4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Chippenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chippenham.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Chippenham

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Daily Rate Trend in Chippenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chippenham citing Microsoft

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Hourly Rate Trend in Chippenham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chippenham citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chippenham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper