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 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 207 272 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.95% 25.37% 13.10%
As % of the Vendors category 49.05% 53.54% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 241 80
10th Percentile £208 £230 £310
25th Percentile £420 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +1.12%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £538
90th Percentile £725 £719 £611
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% +9.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £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 £18.00 £41.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -56.36% +17.86% +10.24%

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 422 508 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 44.75% 47.39% 45.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 438 288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £306
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £651 £650 £600
90th Percentile £775 £719 £678
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 12
10th Percentile £13.76 £60.00 £18.43
25th Percentile - £61.13 £51.31
Median hourly rate £14.54 £65.50 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -77.80% -0.46% +155.93%
75th Percentile £30.25 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile - £86.50 -
South West median hourly rate £48.25 £62.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -22.18% +30.53% +11.28%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -2 124 £542 -10.50% 10
Swindon +6 24 £180 -10.00% 25
Salisbury +5 14 £400 -5.88% 14
Malmesbury +6 11 £220 -45.00%
Devizes - 5 - - 6
Chippenham -3 2 £700 +26.41% 8
Trowbridge - 1 £500 - 5
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 46 (22.22%) Confluence
2 43 (20.77%) SharePoint
3 35 (16.91%) SharePoint Server
4 14 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (5.80%) CMS
6 10 (4.83%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.97%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.48%) nginx
8 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Magento
2 2 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 68 (32.85%) Azure
2 37 (17.87%) Azure Stack
3 20 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.86%) AWS
6 7 (3.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.45%) PaaS
9 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.97%) GCP
9 2 (0.97%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.48%) IaaS
10 1 (0.48%) Matillion
10 1 (0.48%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.29%) Firewall
2 35 (16.91%) BGP
3 11 (5.31%) DNS
4 10 (4.83%) DHCP
5 6 (2.90%) LAN
5 6 (2.90%) Skype
5 6 (2.90%) WAN
6 4 (1.93%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.45%) PBX
8 2 (0.97%) SAN
8 2 (0.97%) SMTP
8 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.97%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.97%) VPN
8 2 (0.97%) VSAN
9 1 (0.48%) Internet
9 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.48%) VoIP
9 1 (0.48%) Wireless
9 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.90%) Power BI
3 5 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.93%) Biml
4 4 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.97%) Git
2 2 (0.97%) Postman
2 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (61.35%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.66%) Finance
4 19 (9.18%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.83%) Military
7 7 (3.38%) Electronics
7 7 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.38%) Marketing
8 6 (2.90%) Police
9 5 (2.42%) Banking
10 2 (0.97%) German Language
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 41 (19.81%) Analyst
2 22 (10.63%) Microsoft Engineer
3 14 (6.76%) Lead
3 14 (6.76%) SOC Analyst
4 11 (5.31%) Architect
5 9 (4.35%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 9 (4.35%) Service Analyst
6 8 (3.86%) Consultant
6 8 (3.86%) SOC Engineer
6 8 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (3.38%) Developer
7 7 (3.38%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (3.38%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 7 (3.38%) Test Engineer
8 6 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.90%) Web Specialist
9 5 (2.42%) Security Engineer
9 5 (2.42%) Service Management Analyst
9 5 (2.42%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.93%) .NET
2 2 (0.97%) .NET Framework
2 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.97%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.48%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.74%) Private Cloud
2 34 (16.43%) PKI
3 32 (15.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 32 (15.46%) Cyber Threat
4 30 (14.49%) Cyber Defence
5 29 (14.01%) Management Information System
6 11 (5.31%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.90%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.45%) Clustering
8 3 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (28.50%) Windows
2 16 (7.73%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.80%) Windows 10
4 10 (4.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (3.86%) Linux
6 2 (0.97%) CentOS
6 2 (0.97%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (28.99%) Service Management
2 53 (25.60%) ITIL
3 49 (23.67%) SIEM
4 43 (20.77%) SOAR
5 38 (18.36%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (18.36%) Incident Response
6 36 (17.39%) Capacity Management
6 36 (17.39%) Network Management
6 36 (17.39%) Security Monitoring
7 31 (14.98%) Case Management
8 30 (14.49%) ITSM
9 29 (14.01%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 29 (14.01%) Incident Management
9 29 (14.01%) Root Cause Analysis
9 29 (14.01%) Threat Intelligence
9 29 (14.01%) Use Case
10 27 (13.04%) Agile
10 27 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 27 (13.04%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 27 (13.04%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.63%) SQL
2 12 (5.80%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.90%) C#
4 5 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (2.42%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (1.45%) Python
6 2 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.48%) Bash
7 1 (0.48%) Java
7 1 (0.48%) Julia
7 1 (0.48%) Perl
7 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 142 (68.60%) Security Cleared
2 102 (49.28%) DV Cleared
3 45 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 35 (16.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (8.70%) Degree
6 13 (6.28%) MCSE
7 10 (4.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (3.38%) MCSA
9 4 (1.93%) MCP
10 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) CCNA
11 1 (0.48%) CCNP
11 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.91%) Government Security Classifications
2 33 (15.94%) NIST
3 27 (13.04%) NIST 800
4 15 (7.25%) JSP 440
5 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.42%) SLA
6 4 (1.93%) NCSC
7 3 (1.45%) PMO
8 2 (0.97%) GDPR
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 18 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.93%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.97%) Docker
5 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (14.01%) SCOM
2 23 (11.11%) OPNET
3 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.42%) Terraform
5 4 (1.93%) Ansible
5 4 (1.93%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 4 (1.93%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.45%) SCCM
6 3 (1.45%) WSUS
7 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.97%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.97%) MOM
7 2 (0.97%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 47 (22.71%) Atlassian
2 16 (7.73%) VMware
3 11 (5.31%) Splunk
4 10 (4.83%) Sitecore
5 8 (3.86%) SAP
6 5 (2.42%) Cisco
7 4 (1.93%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.97%) Google
8 2 (0.97%) HP
8 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.97%) Remedy
8 2 (0.97%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe
9 1 (0.48%) BEA
9 1 (0.48%) Dell
9 1 (0.48%) Meraki
9 1 (0.48%) Progress
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.48%) Veeam