Microsoft Certification Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Certification
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 107 128
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 -48
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 20 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.38% 1.79% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 11
10th Percentile £292 £125 -
25th Percentile £300 £306 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £388 £130
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% +198.08% -71.11%
75th Percentile £472 £575 £489
90th Percentile £656 £595 £619
North West median daily rate £381 £550 £133
% change year-on-year -30.68% +315.09% -66.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 372 502 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.27% 26.52% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 370 348
10th Percentile £300 £338 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £618 £630
90th Percentile £798 £700 £679
North West median daily rate £513 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 15
10th Percentile £24.14 - -
25th Percentile £25.50 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +96.00% +54.04% -42.58%
75th Percentile £73.75 £37.50 £42.25
90th Percentile £94.50 £70.00 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.60% -7.62%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Manchester

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Manchester

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Manchester

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Manchester

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Oldham - 1 £400 -
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (35.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Support Officer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Support
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (5.00%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.00%) Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (35.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (20.00%) Line Management
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Security Management
6 1 (5.00%) Coaching
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.00%) Database Security
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Information Governance
6 1 (5.00%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.00%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (5.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Bicep
2 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) MCSE
2 6 (30.00%) Degree
3 4 (20.00%) CCNA
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) MCITP
5 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) GIAC
6 1 (5.00%) MCSA
6 1 (5.00%) MCTS
6 1 (5.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) CA
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Carbon Black
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat