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 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 45 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 5 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.20% 3.03% 2.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.50% 4.46% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 20
10th Percentile £577 £414 £469
25th Percentile £595 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £503 £543
Median % change year-on-year +25.37% -7.37% +3.33%
75th Percentile £703 £638 £550
90th Percentile £716 £725 £563
South West median daily rate £523 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +4.50% -7.83% +22.25%

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 334 404 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 79.90% 68.01% 67.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 294 403
10th Percentile £363 £390 £413
25th Percentile £513 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £653 £661 £650
90th Percentile £725 £733 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 20
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £58.13
90th Percentile - - £64.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +1.61%

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
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 16 October 2025. 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 +8 4 £630 +9.57% 9
Salisbury +4 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Military
4 1 (20.00%) Advertising
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) System Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) NsoIT
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) MCSE
3 3 (60.00%) MCSA
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) CISM
4 1 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (20.00%) OCA
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Veeam