Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Microsoft Certification
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 41 51
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 30 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 4.72% 3.15% 2.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.56% 4.24% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 18
10th Percentile £551 £491 £368
25th Percentile £581 £534 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £663 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +21.56% +3.81%
75th Percentile £715 £728 £550
90th Percentile £725 £816 £690
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +29.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 540 330 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 84.91% 74.32% 66.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 231 347
10th Percentile £418 £340 £412
25th Percentile £513 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £715 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £723 £729
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 2 16
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £15.62 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +23.08% -25.57%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £50.00
90th Percentile £25.15 - £67.25
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £62.05
% change year-on-year -61.31% +4.75% -4.54%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Wiltshire

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Corsham -18 10 £700 +5.66% 2
Salisbury - 5 - - 1
Swindon -2 2 £625 +35.14% 4
Chippenham - 2 £588 -
Microsoft Certification
South West

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.33%) Confluence
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
1 8 (26.67%) Azure AKS
1 8 (26.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 8 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
1 8 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 8 (26.67%) OpenShift
2 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) DNS
2 12 (40.00%) Firewall
3 8 (26.67%) VPN
4 3 (10.00%) Skype
5 1 (3.33%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
1 8 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) OAuth
1 13 (43.33%) OAuth2
1 13 (43.33%) OpenID
1 13 (43.33%) SAML
2 8 (26.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (20.00%) Replication
3 5 (16.67%) Private Cloud
4 4 (13.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (73.33%) Windows
1 22 (73.33%) Windows Server
2 6 (20.00%) Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (10.00%) CentOS
4 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) RBAC
2 16 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
3 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (36.67%) ITIL
5 10 (33.33%) Load Balancing
6 8 (26.67%) Analytics
6 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
6 8 (26.67%) Log Analytics
6 8 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 8 (26.67%) Security Operations
6 8 (26.67%) SIEM
6 8 (26.67%) TOGAF
7 6 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
7 6 (20.00%) Identity Management
7 6 (20.00%) Service Management
7 6 (20.00%) System Testing
7 6 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (16.67%) Change Management
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (26.67%) Bicep
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (26.67%) Azure Certification
4 8 (26.67%) CISM
4 8 (26.67%) CISSP
4 8 (26.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 7 (23.33%) MCSE
6 4 (13.33%) MCSA
6 4 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (10.00%) Degree
7 3 (10.00%) OCA
7 3 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (26.67%) NIST
1 8 (26.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 13 (43.33%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (36.67%) Terraform
4 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (10.00%) Ansible
5 3 (10.00%) WSUS
6 2 (6.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 28 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (36.67%) Red Hat
3 9 (30.00%) VMware
4 8 (26.67%) IBM
5 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (10.00%) Oracle
5 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (10.00%) Veeam