Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 47 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 2.62% 0.28% -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.52% 0.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £395 £650 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% - -
75th Percentile £513 £750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +29.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 221 207 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 57.85% 57.98% 73.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 134 175
10th Percentile £346 £400 £443
25th Percentile £435 £460 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -2.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £700 £773 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 23
10th Percentile £30.40 £34.00 £22.05
25th Percentile £65.61 £40.00 £56.88
Median hourly rate £78.50 £60.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.83% -23.08% +28.37%
75th Percentile £197.50 £68.00 £83.40
90th Percentile - £72.20 £83.41
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £61.95
% change year-on-year -61.60% +5.74% -4.70%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 7 £423 - 3
Microsoft Certification
South West

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MSI
2 2 (20.00%) AdminStudio
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) InstallShield
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Application Packaging
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (40.00%) Batch Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) VBScript
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) MCSA
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (20.00%) MCSE
5 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (10.00%) MCITP
5 1 (10.00%) MCP
5 1 (10.00%) MCTS
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Dell