Microsoft Certification Contracts in Blandford Forum

Microsoft Certification
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Blandford Forum 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 5 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 50.00% - 16.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.00% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £525
75th Percentile £563 - £538
90th Percentile £578 - -
Dorset median daily rate £525 - £450

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Blandford Forum

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 Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 100.00% 25.00% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £496 - £574
25th Percentile £522 £450 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £610
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.03% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £613
90th Percentile £580 - £626
Dorset median daily rate £550 £620 £525
% change year-on-year -11.29% +18.10% +5.00%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Blandford Forum

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Blandford Forum

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) NsoIT
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
1 4 (80.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Server Building
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware