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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 41 33
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.05% 0.30% 3.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.88% 0.94% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £538 - £200
25th Percentile £575 £463 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £511
90th Percentile £682 - £560
South East median daily rate £325 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -10.00%

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 426 106 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 55.83% 31.93% 39.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 62 121
10th Percentile £404 £273 £280
25th Percentile £475 £339 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £453 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% -2.16% -13.95%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £519
90th Percentile £650 £621 £560
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £529
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.48% -1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 3
10th Percentile £24.07 £17.87 £20.96
25th Percentile £33.70 - £24.35
Median hourly rate £73.75 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +193.24% -16.17% +121.08%
75th Percentile £76.25 £29.61 £34.00
90th Percentile £117.50 - £36.40
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £25.15 £60.83
% change year-on-year +148.51% -58.66% +1.38%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Buckinghamshire

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 13 October 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 -18 8 £590 +24.21% 7
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 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) ICMP
2 1 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) NGFW
2 1 (12.50%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Zero Trust
2 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Security Hardening
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Metadata Management
5 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) MCSA
3 4 (50.00%) MCSE
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) CCNP
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GMP
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) VMware