Microsoft Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 361 367
Rank change year-on-year +95 +6 -24
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 308 333 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.66% 2.37% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 250 327
10th Percentile £183 £152 £145
25th Percentile £300 £348 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +20.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £538
90th Percentile £685 £700 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £511 £425
% change year-on-year -7.09% +20.29% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 23 40
10th Percentile £13.69 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - -8.82%
75th Percentile £21.37 £18.75 £21.05
90th Percentile £21.46 £19.85 £30.85
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -26.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +110 101 £475 -7.32% 59
East of England +27 55 £135 -58.46% 21
South West +27 50 £541 +5.61% 30
North of England +30 40 £400 -23.81% 59
South East +7 39 £425 -22.73% 37
North West +13 29 £381 -30.68% 37
Midlands +8 19 £618 +174.44% 28
West Midlands +23 11 £616 +173.89% 19
East Midlands +10 8 £625 +118.15% 9
Yorkshire +17 6 £438 +52.17% 16
North East +22 5 £475 +331.82% 7
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 49 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (12.34%) SharePoint
3 16 (5.19%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 31 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.65%) Eikon
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 124 (40.26%) Microsoft 365
2 96 (31.17%) Azure
3 30 (9.74%) AWS
4 27 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (7.79%) Entra ID
6 18 (5.84%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.60%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.60%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.60%) WhatsApp
9 7 (2.27%) GCP
9 7 (2.27%) IaaS
10 5 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.62%) GitHub
11 4 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.30%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.94%) DNS
2 44 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 41 (13.31%) DHCP
4 23 (7.47%) VPN
5 21 (6.82%) Firewall
6 18 (5.84%) LAN
7 17 (5.52%) WAN
8 16 (5.19%) SAN
9 13 (4.22%) TCP/IP
10 9 (2.92%) Network Security
11 8 (2.60%) NAS
12 6 (1.95%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (1.95%) VoIP
13 5 (1.62%) iSCSI
13 5 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (1.62%) VLAN
13 5 (1.62%) Wireless
14 4 (1.30%) SSL
15 3 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
16 2 (0.65%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.95%) Power BI
4 5 (1.62%) MySQL
4 5 (1.62%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.30%) Big Data
5 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (6.49%) JIRA
2 5 (1.62%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Appium
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) MSI
3 1 (0.32%) Selenium
3 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (36.04%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (17.21%) Finance
4 38 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 35 (11.36%) Retail
6 19 (6.17%) Banking
7 15 (4.87%) Military
8 12 (3.90%) Marketing
9 9 (2.92%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.60%) Police
11 7 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.95%) Front Office
12 6 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.30%) Advertising
13 4 (1.30%) Legal
13 4 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.97%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (17.53%) Analyst
2 48 (15.58%) Service Analyst
2 48 (15.58%) Service Desk Analyst
3 31 (10.06%) Senior
4 30 (9.74%) Support Engineer
5 27 (8.77%) Architect
5 27 (8.77%) Consultant
6 22 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.84%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 16 (5.19%) Test Engineer
9 15 (4.87%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (4.87%) IT Support
9 15 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.87%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 14 (4.55%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 14 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
11 13 (4.22%) Desktop Support
12 11 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
12 11 (3.57%) Functional Consultant
13 10 (3.25%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.60%) LDAP
2 6 (1.95%) JSON
2 6 (1.95%) XML
3 5 (1.62%) RESTful
3 5 (1.62%) SOAP
4 4 (1.30%) .NET
4 4 (1.30%) SPFx
5 3 (0.97%) Web Services
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.65%) OLE
6 2 (0.65%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.65%) YAML
7 1 (0.32%) ADO
7 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.32%) CSS
7 1 (0.32%) React
7 1 (0.32%) REST
7 1 (0.32%) SAML
7 1 (0.32%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.96%) PKI
2 21 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.90%) Clustering
4 10 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.92%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.27%) NHS
7 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.62%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.97%) Grid Computing
10 3 (0.97%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.97%) Replication
10 3 (0.97%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 133 (43.18%) Windows
2 66 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 35 (11.36%) Windows 10
4 20 (6.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (5.19%) Linux
6 10 (3.25%) Windows 7
7 8 (2.60%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.27%) Unix
9 4 (1.30%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.97%) Android
10 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.97%) VMS
11 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.32%) CentOS
12 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.77%) ITIL
2 72 (23.38%) Customer Service
3 70 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (14.61%) Incident Management
5 35 (11.36%) Agile
6 33 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 30 (9.74%) Service Management
8 25 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (8.12%) Migration
8 25 (8.12%) Service Delivery
9 19 (6.17%) Project Management
10 17 (5.52%) Change Control
11 16 (5.19%) Critical Thinking
11 16 (5.19%) Data Modelling
11 16 (5.19%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (5.19%) Regression Testing
11 16 (5.19%) Test Scripting
12 15 (4.87%) DevOps
12 15 (4.87%) High Availability
13 14 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.61%) PowerShell
2 40 (12.99%) SQL
3 8 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.95%) Python
5 5 (1.62%) C#
6 4 (1.30%) Bash
7 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.97%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.65%) Bicep
8 2 (0.65%) C++
8 2 (0.65%) X++
9 1 (0.32%) Java
9 1 (0.32%) R
9 1 (0.32%) Scala
9 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.32%) MCSA
3 76 (24.68%) MCSE
4 75 (24.35%) Degree
5 72 (23.38%) A+ Certification
6 69 (22.40%) SC Cleared
7 32 (10.39%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (9.74%) Azure Certification
9 27 (8.77%) CCNA
9 27 (8.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 26 (8.44%) MCP
11 20 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (5.52%) DV Cleared
13 14 (4.55%) MCITP
14 11 (3.57%) CCNP
14 11 (3.57%) CISSP
15 9 (2.92%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (2.60%) MCTS
17 7 (2.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.87%) JSP 440
1 15 (4.87%) SLA
2 4 (1.30%) NIST
3 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.97%) GDPR
3 3 (0.97%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.97%) NCSC
4 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (38.64%) Active Directory
2 46 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.19%) vSphere
4 13 (4.22%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.30%) Firmware
5 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.65%) Docker
7 2 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.32%) XenApp
8 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (9.09%) SCCM
2 18 (5.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (5.19%) OPNET
4 8 (2.60%) SCOM
5 7 (2.27%) WSUS
6 4 (1.30%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.97%) Terraform
8 2 (0.65%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.65%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.65%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.32%) Grafana
9 1 (0.32%) Nagios
9 1 (0.32%) Nessus
9 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 260 (84.42%) Microsoft
2 64 (20.78%) VMware
3 53 (17.21%) ServiceNow
4 44 (14.29%) Citrix
5 13 (4.22%) Cisco
6 11 (3.57%) Dell
7 7 (2.27%) Apple
7 7 (2.27%) CA
7 7 (2.27%) Google
8 5 (1.62%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.62%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.62%) Veeam
9 4 (1.30%) Databricks
9 4 (1.30%) HP
10 3 (0.97%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.65%) Adobe
11 2 (0.65%) Juniper
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle
11 2 (0.65%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.65%) Sophos