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 19 October 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 5 26 27
As % of all contract jobs in Salisbury 22.73% 46.43% 21.77%
As % of the Vendors category 50.00% 72.22% 43.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 23
10th Percentile £315 £200 -
25th Percentile £375 £205 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -19.44% -1.37%
75th Percentile £544 £500 £544
90th Percentile £556 £538 £695
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -

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 10 36 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury 45.45% 64.29% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 55
10th Percentile £375 £200 £300
25th Percentile £492 £218 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +45.94% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £671 £538 £613
90th Percentile £688 £575 £703
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Salisbury

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Salisbury over the 6 months to 19 October 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 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Maximo
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) AdminStudio
1 1 (20.00%) InstallShield
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Packager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Application Packager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (40.00%) CISM
4 2 (40.00%) CISSP
4 2 (40.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (20.00%) APMP
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) VMware