Microsoft Contracts in Gloucester

Microsoft
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 27 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 10 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 31 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 36.90% 14.29% 20.00%
As % of the Vendors category 63.27% 29.73% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 16
10th Percentile £181 £443 £394
25th Percentile £216 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £470 £484
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% -2.79% +51.09%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £588
90th Percentile £580 £549 £753
Gloucestershire median daily rate £325 £473 £440
% change year-on-year -31.22% +7.39% +13.55%

All Vendors
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 49 37 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 58.33% 48.05% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 49
10th Percentile £201 £448 £413
25th Percentile £225 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +0.96% +20.23%
75th Percentile £534 £622 £650
90th Percentile £645 £638 £765
Gloucestershire median daily rate £434 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -17.33% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Gloucester

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Gloucester over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Gloucester

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Microsoft

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 9 (29.03%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.68%) IIS
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Power Platform
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.90%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.45%) AWS
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Network Security
1 4 (12.90%) VPN
2 3 (9.68%) WAAS
3 2 (6.45%) DHCP
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) MSI
2 1 (3.23%) AdminStudio
2 1 (3.23%) InstallShield
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Applications Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Power Apps Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Desktop Support
3 3 (9.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Security Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Technician
5 1 (3.23%) Junior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Chip and PIN
1 2 (6.45%) iPad
1 2 (6.45%) iPhone
1 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Windows
2 12 (38.71%) Windows 10
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (9.68%) Android
5 3 (9.68%) Mac OS
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) ITIL
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) DevOps
3 6 (19.35%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security
5 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
5 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Patch Management
5 4 (12.90%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (12.90%) Time Management
5 4 (12.90%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (9.68%) Application Packaging
6 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.68%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (9.68%) High Availability
6 3 (9.68%) Information Security
6 3 (9.68%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) VBScript
3 1 (3.23%) Bicep
3 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
1 19 (61.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (9.68%) MCSA
4 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CISM
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.23%) MCITP
5 1 (3.23%) MCP
5 1 (3.23%) MCSE
5 1 (3.23%) MCTS
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 1 (3.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 5 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (9.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (9.68%) GDPR
4 2 (6.45%) NIST
4 2 (6.45%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.90%) SCCM
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (6.45%) NetApp OnCommand
3 2 (6.45%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.45%) vMotion
3 2 (6.45%) WSUS
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) VMware
2 2 (6.45%) Dell
2 2 (6.45%) HP
2 2 (6.45%) McAfee
3 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.23%) IFS
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow