Microsoft Certification Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 3 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.71% 2.08% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.14% 2.87% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £614 £389 £124
25th Percentile £616 - £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £160
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% +150.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £666 - £181
90th Percentile £671 £415 £193
South West median daily rate £541 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +17.03% +2.78% +59.01%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 349 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 62.03% 72.56% 53.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 249 229
10th Percentile £425 £395 £313
25th Percentile £513 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +4.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £691 £675 £625
90th Percentile £754 £715 £680
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 4
10th Percentile £15.75 £49.75 £47.30
25th Percentile £15.89 £59.88 £52.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £78.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.74% +35.65% +27.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £83.31 £74.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.40 £99.90
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £61.58
% change year-on-year -8.40% +6.37% +36.83%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Gloucestershire

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 26 April 2024. 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
Cheltenham - 2 £638 - 4
Gloucester +9 1 - - 3
Microsoft Certification
South West

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CA