Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Microsoft Certification
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 4.48% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £357 - -
25th Percentile £379 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 - -
75th Percentile £471 - -
90th Percentile £496 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £463 £700 -
% change year-on-year -33.93% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucester

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Gloucester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 106 56 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 79.10% 59.57% 81.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 47 66
10th Percentile £325 £363 £431
25th Percentile £385 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £734 £697
90th Percentile £700 £750 £756
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -20.83% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £20.83
25th Percentile - - £24.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £52.75
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £35.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +94.29% -55.13% +26.78%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Gloucester over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Gloucester

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MSI
2 1 (16.67%) AdminStudio
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) InstallShield
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Application Packaging
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) Batch Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) ITSM
5 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) VBScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) MCSA
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (16.67%) MCITP
3 1 (16.67%) MCP
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) MCTS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Master
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft