Microsoft Certification Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Certification
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 66 62
Rank change year-on-year +22 -4 +22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 6 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.15% 0.13% 1.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.35% 0.45% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £214 - -
25th Percentile £221 £513 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £363
Median % change year-on-year -28.67% +44.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £369
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £224 £616 £225
% change year-on-year -63.65% +173.89% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.50 £15.65 £18.50
% change year-on-year +56.55% -15.41% -9.80%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Birmingham

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Birmingham

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Birmingham

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Responder
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Security Incident Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Data Security
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow