Microsoft Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 289 441
Rank change year-on-year +48 +152 -100
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 101 171 185
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.72% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.61% 2.86% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 134 137
10th Percentile £373 £363 £231
25th Percentile £450 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +10.11%
75th Percentile £688 £611 £585
90th Percentile £728 £743 £650
UK median daily rate £484 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -6.97% +15.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £9.45 £30.85
25th Percentile - £11.63 £37.75
Median hourly rate - £16.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% +113.27%
75th Percentile - £22.63 £52.75
90th Percentile - £25.55 £54.55
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -11.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,871 5,983 8,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 25.06% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 4,053 6,276
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 246 232
10th Percentile £15.36 £19.00 £19.04
25th Percentile £23.94 £42.50 £39.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Microsoft Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Certification.

Microsoft Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft Certification over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Microsoft Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Certification.

Microsoft Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (21.78%) SharePoint
2 17 (16.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.97%) Confluence
4 2 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.99%) IIS
5 1 (0.99%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 55 (54.46%) Azure
2 34 (33.66%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (22.77%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (19.80%) Power Platform
5 14 (13.86%) AWS
5 14 (13.86%) Entra ID
6 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.91%) Power Automate
6 9 (8.91%) PowerApps
7 7 (6.93%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.95%) GCP
8 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.95%) Twilio
9 4 (3.96%) GitHub
10 3 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.97%) IaaS
11 2 (1.98%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.89%) DNS
2 8 (7.92%) DHCP
3 5 (4.95%) CTI
3 5 (4.95%) Firewall
3 5 (4.95%) VoIP
4 3 (2.97%) NetScaler
4 3 (2.97%) SAN
4 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.97%) VPN
5 2 (1.98%) LAN
5 2 (1.98%) NAS
5 2 (1.98%) Skype
5 2 (1.98%) SSL
6 1 (0.99%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.99%) Network Security
6 1 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.99%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.99%) WAN
6 1 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.91%) Power BI
3 5 (4.95%) Big Data
3 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
4 3 (2.97%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) JIRA
2 6 (5.94%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) MSI
3 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (34.65%) Finance
3 22 (21.78%) Public Sector
4 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.88%) Banking
5 12 (11.88%) Retail
6 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.97%) Military
8 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.98%) Front Office
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) French Language
9 1 (0.99%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.99%) Local Government
9 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Publishing
9 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.99%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (22.77%) Architect
2 21 (20.79%) Consultant
3 13 (12.87%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (11.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Analyst
6 8 (7.92%) Platform Architect
6 8 (7.92%) Power Platform Architect
7 7 (6.93%) DBA
7 7 (6.93%) Functional Consultant
7 7 (6.93%) Lead
7 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 7 (6.93%) SQL DBA
8 6 (5.94%) Senior
9 5 (4.95%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.96%) Lead Consultant
11 3 (2.97%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
11 3 (2.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.94%) .NET
1 6 (5.94%) RESTful
2 5 (4.95%) JSON
2 5 (4.95%) Middleware
2 5 (4.95%) Web Services
2 5 (4.95%) XML
3 4 (3.96%) SOAP
3 4 (3.96%) SPFx
4 3 (2.97%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (2.97%) PySpark
4 3 (2.97%) React
4 3 (2.97%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (1.98%) CSS
5 2 (1.98%) HTML
5 2 (1.98%) OAuth
5 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.99%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.99%) SAML
6 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.95%) Clustering
2 5 (4.95%) IVR
2 5 (4.95%) Low-Code
2 5 (4.95%) PKI
3 4 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.98%) Grid Computing
5 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (36.63%) Windows
2 25 (24.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.94%) Windows 10
3 6 (5.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (4.95%) Linux
5 3 (2.97%) VMS
6 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.98%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.98%) Unix
6 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.99%) Android
7 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.99%) CentOS
7 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.74%) Agile
2 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (19.80%) ITIL
4 17 (16.83%) DevOps
5 15 (14.85%) Migration
6 14 (13.86%) Computer Science
7 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (10.89%) Data Modelling
8 11 (10.89%) GAP Analysis
9 10 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (9.90%) Service Management
10 9 (8.91%) High Availability
10 9 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (7.92%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (7.92%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (7.92%) Project Planning
11 8 (7.92%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (7.92%) Scenario Testing
11 8 (7.92%) Task Automation
12 7 (6.93%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.77%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.83%) SQL
3 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.97%) Scala
5 2 (1.98%) C++
5 2 (1.98%) Python
5 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.98%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.99%) Bash
6 1 (0.99%) C#
6 1 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 33 (32.67%) Degree
2 22 (21.78%) MCSE
3 19 (18.81%) Azure Certification
4 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
5 12 (11.88%) MCSA
6 9 (8.91%) AWS Certification
6 9 (8.91%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (6.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.95%) Master's Degree
8 5 (4.95%) MCITP
8 5 (4.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (3.96%) MCTS
10 3 (2.97%) CCNA
10 3 (2.97%) CCNP
10 3 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.97%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.98%) MCSD
12 1 (0.99%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.95%) GDPR
2 5 (4.95%) HIPAA
2 5 (4.95%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.98%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.98%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.98%) SLA
4 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (33.66%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.95%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.97%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.97%) XenApp
5 3 (2.97%) XenDesktop
6 2 (1.98%) vSphere
7 1 (0.99%) Docker
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (5.94%) SCCM
2 4 (3.96%) WSUS
3 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.99%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.99%) Nagios
4 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (94.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) VMware
3 7 (6.93%) Cisco
3 7 (6.93%) Google
4 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.95%) Avaya
5 5 (4.95%) Databricks
5 5 (4.95%) Genesys
6 3 (2.97%) CA
6 3 (2.97%) Citrix
7 2 (1.98%) Dell
7 2 (1.98%) HP
7 2 (1.98%) IronPort
8 1 (0.99%) Commvault
8 1 (0.99%) EMC
8 1 (0.99%) Juniper
8 1 (0.99%) McAfee
8 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.99%) SAP
8 1 (0.99%) Veritas