Microsoft Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 231 227
Rank change year-on-year +53 -4 -37
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 234 249 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.06% 1.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.10% 3.21% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 188 218
10th Percentile £160 £121 £123
25th Percentile £300 £243 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £480 £375
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +28.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £488
90th Percentile £638 £650 £604
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 20 39
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% - -18.42%
75th Percentile £21.37 £18.75 £20.51
90th Percentile - £20.65 £32.95
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -26.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,560 7,762 8,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.83% 33.02% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 5,203 5,219
10th Percentile £269 £286 £254
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 648 525
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
East of England +22 56 £135 -58.46% 27
South West +24 48 £545 +3.81% 53
North of England +24 38 £400 -23.81% 79
South East -5 37 £456 -17.05% 47
Scotland +52 32 £325 +155.48% 21
North West +20 28 £388 -29.55% 48
Midlands +19 21 £513 +129.02% 53
East Midlands +16 14 £406 +81.84% 19
West Midlands +17 7 £625 +177.78% 34
Yorkshire +23 5 £325 +116.67% 23
North East +18 5 £475 +331.82% 9
Northern Ireland +8 2 - - 8
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 35 (14.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (9.40%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.84%) Confluence
4 7 (2.99%) IIS
5 3 (1.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (6.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 87 (37.18%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (20.09%) Azure
3 13 (5.56%) AWS
3 13 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (4.70%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (1.71%) IaaS
7 3 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.28%) GCP
7 3 (1.28%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.85%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.85%) SaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.43%) PaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 44 (18.80%) Wi-Fi
2 31 (13.25%) DNS
3 25 (10.68%) DHCP
4 20 (8.55%) SAN
5 14 (5.98%) Firewall
6 12 (5.13%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.85%) VPN
8 7 (2.99%) LAN
8 7 (2.99%) SSL
8 7 (2.99%) WAN
9 6 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (2.56%) VoIP
10 5 (2.14%) iSCSI
10 5 (2.14%) NAS
10 5 (2.14%) Network Security
10 5 (2.14%) VLAN
10 5 (2.14%) Wireless
11 4 (1.71%) Skype
12 3 (1.28%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.85%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.43%) Power BI
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.43%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 16 (6.84%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Appium
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) MSI
2 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 70 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (18.80%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.97%) Retail
5 19 (8.12%) Finance
6 15 (6.41%) Military
7 9 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.42%) Police
9 7 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.99%) Marketing
10 5 (2.14%) Banking
11 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.28%) Front Office
13 2 (0.85%) Electronics
13 2 (0.85%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.43%) Legal
14 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (24.79%) Analyst
2 48 (20.51%) Service Analyst
2 48 (20.51%) Service Desk Analyst
3 25 (10.68%) Senior
4 24 (10.26%) Support Engineer
5 18 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.84%) Test Engineer
7 15 (6.41%) Integration Engineer
7 15 (6.41%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 14 (5.98%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
9 13 (5.56%) Consultant
9 13 (5.56%) IT Engineer
10 10 (4.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support
11 9 (3.85%) Architect
11 9 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 9 (3.85%) Field Engineer
11 9 (3.85%) IT Support
12 8 (3.42%) DBA
12 8 (3.42%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.28%) .NET
1 3 (1.28%) CSS
1 3 (1.28%) XML
2 1 (0.43%) ADO
2 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.43%) JSON
2 1 (0.43%) LDAP
2 1 (0.43%) REST
2 1 (0.43%) SOAP
2 1 (0.43%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.43%) Web Services
2 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.81%) PKI
2 22 (9.40%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.41%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.56%) Clustering
6 5 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.14%) NHS
7 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 102 (43.59%) Windows
2 62 (26.50%) Windows Server
3 28 (11.97%) Windows 10
4 27 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (6.84%) Linux
6 7 (2.99%) CentOS
6 7 (2.99%) Unix
6 7 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.56%) Debian
7 6 (2.56%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.71%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.28%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.43%) Android
11 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (41.03%) ITIL
2 69 (29.49%) Customer Service
3 55 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (20.51%) Incident Management
5 27 (11.54%) Agile
6 26 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 25 (10.68%) Service Management
8 21 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (7.26%) Critical Thinking
10 16 (6.84%) Change Control
10 16 (6.84%) Regression Testing
10 16 (6.84%) Test Scripting
11 14 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (5.98%) Mathematics
12 13 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (5.56%) Migration
13 12 (5.13%) Computer Science
13 12 (5.13%) High Availability
14 10 (4.27%) Mentoring
14 10 (4.27%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.68%) SQL
3 5 (2.14%) Python
4 4 (1.71%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.28%) Bash
5 3 (1.28%) C#
5 3 (1.28%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.85%) Bicep
6 2 (0.85%) C++
6 2 (0.85%) X++
7 1 (0.43%) Java
7 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (35.90%) MCSE
2 74 (31.62%) MCSA
3 73 (31.20%) Security Cleared
4 62 (26.50%) A+ Certification
5 56 (23.93%) SC Cleared
6 52 (22.22%) Degree
7 31 (13.25%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (11.97%) CCNA
9 27 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (10.26%) MCP
11 18 (7.69%) DV Cleared
12 13 (5.56%) Azure Certification
13 12 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (4.27%) MCTS
14 10 (4.27%) Network+ Certification
15 8 (3.42%) CCNP
16 7 (2.99%) CITP
16 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (2.99%) MCITP
17 6 (2.56%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.41%) JSP 440
2 11 (4.70%) SLA
3 4 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.28%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.28%) NCSC
4 3 (1.28%) NIST
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 101 (43.16%) Active Directory
2 45 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.26%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.27%) vSphere
5 6 (2.56%) KVM
6 4 (1.71%) Firmware
7 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.85%) XenApp
8 2 (0.85%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.43%) Docker
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (11.11%) SCCM
2 16 (6.84%) OPNET
3 14 (5.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.42%) WSUS
5 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.85%) Terraform
5 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 174 (74.36%) Microsoft
2 53 (22.65%) Citrix
3 51 (21.79%) VMware
4 50 (21.37%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.56%) Dell
6 9 (3.85%) Cisco
7 8 (3.42%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.56%) HP
9 5 (2.14%) Apple
10 4 (1.71%) CA
11 2 (0.85%) Adobe
11 2 (0.85%) Google
11 2 (0.85%) SAP
11 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.85%) Sophos
11 2 (0.85%) Veeam
12 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.43%) Carbon Black
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle
12 1 (0.43%) Qualys