Microsoft Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 210 275 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 22.25% 24.91% 13.94%
As % of the Vendors category 49.65% 52.99% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 245 89
10th Percentile £208 £214 £266
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £538
90th Percentile £725 £719 £600
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £14.45 - £36.62
25th Percentile - £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.54 £21.50 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -32.37% -68.86% +273.24%
75th Percentile - £21.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £15.89 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -68.22% +42.86% -18.00%

All Vendors
Wiltshire

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 423 519 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 44.81% 47.01% 45.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 449 288
10th Percentile £250 £294 £296
25th Percentile £460 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £600
90th Percentile £775 £723 £675
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 12
10th Percentile £13.99 £60.00 £18.43
25th Percentile - £61.81 £51.50
Median hourly rate £14.54 £65.50 £67.43
Median % change year-on-year -77.80% -2.86% +162.25%
75th Percentile £26.32 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £30.25 £85.25 £74.41
South West median hourly rate £47.50 £63.00 £46.71
% change year-on-year -24.60% +34.87% +3.80%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Wiltshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Wiltshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Wiltshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Wiltshire

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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 within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -2 125 £538 -11.07% 5
Swindon +12 29 £180 -10.00% 22
Malmesbury +7 11 £220 -39.31%
Salisbury +6 11 £400 -15.79% 11
Devizes - 5 - - 3
Chippenham -2 2 £700 +26.41% 5
Trowbridge - 2 £338 - 1
Melksham - 1 - -
Microsoft
South West

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (22.38%) SharePoint
2 45 (21.43%) Confluence
3 35 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
4 14 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (5.71%) CMS
6 10 (4.76%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.95%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.48%) nginx
8 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (10.48%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Magento
2 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.48%) assyst
3 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.24%) Azure
2 37 (17.62%) Azure Stack
3 29 (13.81%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.24%) AWS
6 7 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 6 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.95%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.95%) PaaS
11 1 (0.48%) GCP
11 1 (0.48%) IaaS
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.00%) Firewall
2 35 (16.67%) BGP
3 12 (5.71%) DNS
4 11 (5.24%) DHCP
5 7 (3.33%) LAN
5 7 (3.33%) WAN
6 6 (2.86%) Skype
7 4 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.43%) PBX
8 3 (1.43%) SAN
8 3 (1.43%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.43%) VSAN
9 2 (0.95%) SMTP
9 2 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.95%) VPN
10 1 (0.48%) ADSL
10 1 (0.48%) Internet
10 1 (0.48%) VoIP
10 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.86%) Power BI
3 4 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (1.90%) Biml
3 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 45 (21.43%) JIRA
2 4 (1.90%) Git
3 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.48%) Postman
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (56.19%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.52%) Finance
4 19 (9.05%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.29%) Military
8 7 (3.33%) Electronics
8 7 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.33%) Marketing
8 7 (3.33%) Police
9 4 (1.90%) German Language
10 2 (0.95%) Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.48%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 40 (19.05%) Analyst
2 23 (10.95%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (6.67%) Lead
3 14 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 11 (5.24%) Architect
5 9 (4.29%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 8 (3.81%) Senior
6 8 (3.81%) Service Analyst
6 8 (3.81%) SOC Engineer
6 8 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (3.33%) Consultant
7 7 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.86%) Database Engineer
8 6 (2.86%) Developer
8 6 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (2.86%) Senior Database Engineer
8 6 (2.86%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 6 (2.86%) Test Engineer
8 6 (2.86%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.43%) .NET
2 2 (0.95%) .NET Framework
2 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.48%) Lucene
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.48%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.48%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.43%) Private Cloud
2 32 (15.24%) PKI
3 30 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 30 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 28 (13.33%) Cyber Defence
5 27 (12.86%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.76%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) Clustering
10 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.48%) Fat Client
13 1 (0.48%) Thin Client
13 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 60 (28.57%) Windows
2 17 (8.10%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 10 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (2.86%) Linux
5 3 (1.43%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.14%) Service Management
2 53 (25.24%) ITIL
3 47 (22.38%) SIEM
4 43 (20.48%) SOAR
5 36 (17.14%) Capacity Management
5 36 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (17.14%) Incident Response
5 36 (17.14%) Network Management
5 36 (17.14%) Security Monitoring
6 31 (14.76%) Agile
6 31 (14.76%) Case Management
7 30 (14.29%) ITSM
8 29 (13.81%) Root Cause Analysis
9 28 (13.33%) Information Security
10 27 (12.86%) Incident Management
11 26 (12.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 26 (12.38%) Mentoring
11 26 (12.38%) Threat Intelligence
11 26 (12.38%) Use Case
12 25 (11.90%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.95%) SQL
2 12 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.38%) C#
4 2 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.95%) Python
4 2 (0.95%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.48%) Bash
5 1 (0.48%) Java
5 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.48%) Julia
5 1 (0.48%) Perl
5 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 141 (67.14%) Security Cleared
2 103 (49.05%) DV Cleared
3 44 (20.95%) SC Cleared
4 33 (15.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (8.10%) Degree
6 11 (5.24%) MCSE
7 9 (4.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (3.33%) MCSA
9 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.90%) MCP
10 3 (1.43%) CCNA
11 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.48%) CCNP
11 1 (0.48%) CISM
11 1 (0.48%) CISSP
11 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 33 (15.71%) NIST
3 27 (12.86%) NIST 800
4 15 (7.14%) JSP 440
5 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.38%) SLA
6 4 (1.90%) NCSC
7 3 (1.43%) GDPR
7 3 (1.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 23 (10.95%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.43%) vSphere
6 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.48%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.48%) Docker
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 30 (14.29%) SCOM
2 22 (10.48%) OPNET
3 8 (3.81%) Ansible
3 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (3.81%) Terraform
4 5 (2.38%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.90%) SCCM
5 4 (1.90%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.95%) MOM
6 2 (0.95%) WSUS
7 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.48%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Puppet
7 1 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 47 (22.38%) Atlassian
2 17 (8.10%) VMware
3 10 (4.76%) Sitecore
4 9 (4.29%) SAP
4 9 (4.29%) Splunk
5 6 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.90%) Cisco
7 3 (1.43%) HP
7 3 (1.43%) Veeam
8 2 (0.95%) Remedy
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe
9 1 (0.48%) BEA
9 1 (0.48%) BMC
9 1 (0.48%) Citrix
9 1 (0.48%) Commvault
9 1 (0.48%) Dell
9 1 (0.48%) Progress
9 1 (0.48%) Riverbed
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.48%) Xamarin