Microsoft Certification Contracts in London

Microsoft Certification
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 293 403 432
Rank change year-on-year +110 +29 -69
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 101 92 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.36% 1.58% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 71 130
10th Percentile £180 £175 £185
25th Percentile £275 £400 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +20.12%
75th Percentile £575 £648 £538
90th Percentile £750 £743 £615
England median daily rate £500 £514 £425
% change year-on-year -2.68% +20.88% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £30.71 - -
25th Percentile £31.77 - £24.69
Median hourly rate £34.08 £8.00 £25.09
Median % change year-on-year +325.97% -68.11% -58.19%
75th Percentile £36.92 - £25.48
90th Percentile £38.31 - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -8.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,827 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.52% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,938 4,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 81 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £20.00 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +41 10 £438 -20.45% 5
North London +3 2 £250 -
South London +9 1 - - 1
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 18 (17.82%) SharePoint
2 16 (15.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.99%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Eikon
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.58%) Azure
2 40 (39.60%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (14.85%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (11.88%) Power Platform
5 11 (10.89%) Entra ID
6 10 (9.90%) AWS
7 8 (7.92%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.95%) GitHub
9 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
9 5 (4.95%) WhatsApp
10 4 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.96%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.97%) GCP
12 2 (1.98%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.90%) DHCP
1 10 (9.90%) DNS
1 10 (9.90%) VPN
2 7 (6.93%) Firewall
2 7 (6.93%) LAN
2 7 (6.93%) WAN
3 2 (1.98%) NAS
3 2 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.98%) SAN
4 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.99%) Network Security
4 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.91%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.95%) MySQL
3 5 (4.95%) Power BI
3 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.96%) Big Data
5 3 (2.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.99%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Git
1 4 (3.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 36 (35.64%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.86%) Banking
3 14 (13.86%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.93%) Marketing
4 7 (6.93%) Retail
5 5 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Advertising
7 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.97%) Front Office
7 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.99%) French Language
9 1 (0.99%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (16.83%) Architect
2 16 (15.84%) Consultant
3 10 (9.90%) Support Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 9 (8.91%) Functional Consultant
4 9 (8.91%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Desktop Support
5 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Platform Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Power Platform Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Senior
6 6 (5.94%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Developer
6 6 (5.94%) IT Support
7 5 (4.95%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.95%) Administrator
7 5 (4.95%) Analyst
7 5 (4.95%) Senior Wintel Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.95%) LDAP
1 5 (4.95%) RESTful
2 4 (3.96%) JSON
2 4 (3.96%) SOAP
2 4 (3.96%) SPFx
2 4 (3.96%) XML
3 2 (1.98%) Web Services
4 1 (0.99%) .NET
4 1 (0.99%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.99%) OAuth
4 1 (0.99%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.99%) PySpark
4 1 (0.99%) React
4 1 (0.99%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.99%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Management Information System
1 9 (8.91%) PKI
2 6 (5.94%) Clustering
3 5 (4.95%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.97%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.97%) Grid Computing
5 3 (2.97%) NHS
5 3 (2.97%) Replication
6 2 (1.98%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.98%) iPad
6 2 (1.98%) iPhone
6 2 (1.98%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.99%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.99%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (42.57%) Windows
2 17 (16.83%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.90%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.95%) Linux
5 4 (3.96%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.98%) VMS
7 1 (0.99%) Android
7 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.99%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (18.81%) ITIL
3 14 (13.86%) Customer Service
3 14 (13.86%) Data Modelling
4 13 (12.87%) Migration
5 11 (10.89%) Computer Science
6 9 (8.91%) Agile
6 9 (8.91%) DevOps
7 8 (7.92%) ITSM
7 8 (7.92%) Project Management
8 7 (6.93%) High Availability
8 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (6.93%) Project Planning
8 7 (6.93%) Service Management
8 7 (6.93%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (5.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (5.94%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (4.95%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.84%) PowerShell
1 16 (15.84%) SQL
2 2 (1.98%) C#
3 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (24.75%) Degree
2 15 (14.85%) A+ Certification
2 15 (14.85%) MCSE
3 13 (12.87%) Azure Certification
4 11 (10.89%) MCP
5 9 (8.91%) MCITP
5 9 (8.91%) MCSA
5 9 (8.91%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.91%) Security Cleared
6 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.96%) CCNA
9 3 (2.97%) CCNP
9 3 (2.97%) CISSP
9 3 (2.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (2.97%) MCTS
9 3 (2.97%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) SLA
2 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.99%) GDPR
2 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.99%) NIST
2 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (28.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.94%) vSphere
3 4 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.97%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.99%) Docker
6 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (8.91%) SCCM
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.94%) SCOM
3 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.98%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.98%) WSUS
5 1 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.99%) Nagios
5 1 (0.99%) Nessus
5 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.99%) Terraform
5 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (94.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.84%) VMware
3 7 (6.93%) Dell
4 5 (4.95%) Bloomberg
5 4 (3.96%) Apple
5 4 (3.96%) Databricks
5 4 (3.96%) Google
5 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.97%) Cisco
6 3 (2.97%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.98%) CA
7 2 (1.98%) Reuters
7 2 (1.98%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.98%) Veeam
8 1 (0.99%) Aruba
8 1 (0.99%) Citrix
8 1 (0.99%) HP
8 1 (0.99%) IronPort
8 1 (0.99%) Juniper
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle