Microsoft Certification Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 67 71
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 14 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.65% 1.31% 1.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.51% 4.66% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 14
10th Percentile £357 - £128
25th Percentile £400 £223 £162
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £375 £294
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +27.66% -9.62%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £440
90th Percentile £653 £480 £529
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £16.51
25th Percentile £45.22 - £17.84
Median hourly rate £48.56 £26.48 £20.58
Median % change year-on-year +83.38% +28.65% -
75th Percentile £51.91 - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 254 279 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.92% 28.01% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 212 185
10th Percentile £172 £313 £183
25th Percentile £254 £402 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +23.53% +14.86%
75th Percentile £564 £641 £500
90th Percentile £670 £715 £585
England median daily rate £536 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 22 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £9.50 £13.36
25th Percentile £14.72 £11.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £20.73 £21.84 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +1.56% +11.69%
75th Percentile £42.31 £51.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £36.75
England median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -27.05% +35.80% +12.38%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Lincolnshire +18 7 £625 +367.29%
Northamptonshire +3 5 £400 -11.11% 2
Leicestershire +9 2 - - 3
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) NetScaler
2 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) General Ledger
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DBA
2 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) Designer
2 4 (28.57%) SQL DBA
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) IT Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
1 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (35.71%) High Availability
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
1 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (7.14%) Budget Management
5 1 (7.14%) Budgeting
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) Data Management
5 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (7.14%) Inventory Control
5 1 (7.14%) Inventory Management
5 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) X++
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) MCITP
2 5 (35.71%) MCTS
3 3 (21.43%) MCSE
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.14%) MCP
5 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) XenApp
2 2 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle