Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Salisbury

Microsoft
Wiltshire > Salisbury

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Salisbury 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 December 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 10 20 15
As % of all contract jobs in Salisbury 14.49% 28.57% 25.42%
As % of the Vendors category 52.63% 71.43% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 12
10th Percentile £220 £204 £192
25th Percentile £234 £215 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £505
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -28.22% +83.64%
75th Percentile £554 £469 £725
90th Percentile £576 £675 £736
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

All Vendors
Salisbury

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 Salisbury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19 28 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury 27.54% 40.00% 59.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 28
10th Percentile £220 £205 £247
25th Percentile £325 £215 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £363 £582
Median % change year-on-year +55.52% -37.69% +6.35%
75th Percentile £624 £556 £675
90th Percentile £688 £663 £725
Wiltshire median daily rate £588 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £24.00 £12.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +90.63% -73.49% -27.48%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Salisbury

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Salisbury

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Salisbury

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Salisbury

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Salisbury

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Salisbury

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salisbury 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Maximo
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) AdminStudio
1 1 (10.00%) InstallShield
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Packager
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Application Packager
4 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) RBAC
2 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) SIEM
2 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) Software Licensing
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Runbook
5 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (40.00%) CISM
4 4 (40.00%) CISSP
4 4 (40.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) APMP
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (40.00%) NIST
1 4 (40.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware