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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 32 14 24
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 4.75% 3.17% 2.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.49% 4.22% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 21
10th Percentile £529 £491 £409
25th Percentile £575 £591 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £545
Median % change year-on-year - +28.44% -0.91%
75th Percentile £715 £741 £550
90th Percentile £725 £818 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +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 583 332 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 86.50% 75.28% 68.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 231 398
10th Percentile £425 £340 £413
25th Percentile £513 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £700 £733
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 17
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £15.72 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +20.00% -23.66%
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - £74.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

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 23 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 23 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 -16 12 £700 - 2
Salisbury - 5 - - 1
Swindon -4 2 £625 +35.14% 6
Chippenham - 2 £588 - 1
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
1 8 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 8 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 8 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 8 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 8 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) DNS
2 14 (43.75%) Firewall
3 8 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (9.38%) Skype
5 1 (3.13%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
2 3 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Advertising
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) OAuth
1 15 (46.88%) OAuth2
1 15 (46.88%) OpenID
1 15 (46.88%) SAML
2 8 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (21.88%) Replication
3 6 (18.75%) Private Cloud
4 4 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
1 24 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (18.75%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (9.38%) CentOS
4 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) RBAC
2 17 (53.13%) Identity Access Management
3 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (37.50%) Load Balancing
5 11 (34.38%) ITIL
6 9 (28.13%) Mentoring
7 8 (25.00%) Analytics
7 8 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 8 (25.00%) Log Analytics
7 8 (25.00%) Security Operations
7 8 (25.00%) SIEM
7 8 (25.00%) TOGAF
8 7 (21.88%) Identity Management
8 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (18.75%) Change Management
9 6 (18.75%) Critical Thinking
9 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (18.75%) Service Management
9 6 (18.75%) System Testing
10 5 (15.63%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.00%) Bicep
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 3 (9.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (71.88%) DV Cleared
3 17 (53.13%) SC Cleared
4 8 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (25.00%) CISM
4 8 (25.00%) CISSP
4 8 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 7 (21.88%) MCSE
6 4 (12.50%) MCSA
6 4 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (9.38%) Degree
7 3 (9.38%) OCA
7 3 (9.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (25.00%) NIST
1 8 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (65.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (46.88%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (34.38%) Terraform
4 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (9.38%) Ansible
5 3 (9.38%) WSUS
6 2 (6.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) Red Hat
3 10 (31.25%) VMware
4 8 (25.00%) IBM
5 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle
5 3 (9.38%) SolarWinds
5 3 (9.38%) Veeam