Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Microsoft Certification
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 20 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 2.11% 1.12% -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.65% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £565 - -
25th Percentile £588 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% - -
75th Percentile £663 £738 -
90th Percentile £685 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £700 £700 £541
% change year-on-year - +29.33% +3.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 43 21 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 45.26% 23.60% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 16
10th Percentile £383 £207 £409
25th Percentile £419 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -3.30% +26.39%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £731
Wiltshire median daily rate £613 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +11.36% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -62.89% +23.71% -25.95%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Swindon

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Swindon over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Swindon

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware