Microsoft Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.80% 0.31% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £700 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +55.56% -10.00% -21.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 323 312 379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.60% 96.00% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 217 242
10th Percentile £227 £254 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £606 £660 £688
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
South West median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 48
10th Percentile £23.18 £22.86 £19.47
25th Percentile £31.59 £47.78 £44.81
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +38.55% -18.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.75 £73.13
90th Percentile £68.54 - £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Microsoft Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Microsoft Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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 -10 2 £388 -18.42% 2
Microsoft Engineer
South West

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, Microsoft Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft