Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 18 52
Rank change year-on-year -37 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 4 27 3
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.68% 9.75% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.43% 21.77% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 3
10th Percentile £528 £200 £614
25th Percentile £550 £254 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £565 £643
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% -12.14% +33.97%
75th Percentile £627 £630 -
90th Percentile £635 £743 -
South East median daily rate £474 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -5.30% +42.86% -35.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £15.99 £17.50
% change year-on-year - -8.66% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 279 124 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 47.13% 44.77% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 89 178
10th Percentile £356 £208 £325
25th Percentile £463 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £516
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -9.80% +12.31%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £618
90th Percentile £640 £630 £691
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 13
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +5.56% +24.14%
75th Percentile £27.43 £67.50 £22.52
90th Percentile £29.61 - £27.50
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £56.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year -47.82% -2.67% +22.74%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -32 4 £595 +5.31% 11
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) IPv6
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) Multicast
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) CCDA
4 1 (25.00%) CCDP
4 1 (25.00%) CCIE
4 1 (25.00%) CCIP
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NCSC
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler