Microsoft Certification Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 52 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% - 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.65% - 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £525
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £381 £550
% change year-on-year +31.15% -30.68% +315.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 123 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.73% 24.40% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 83 96
10th Percentile £230 £132 £283
25th Percentile £325 £344 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -10.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £522 £538 £575
90th Percentile £582 £672 £665
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £28.43 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £36.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £14.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -65.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £85.63 £26.66 £65.75
90th Percentile £86.00 - £66.50
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £461 -
Warrington - 1 - - 5
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) MCSA
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) BitLocker
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec
2 1 (16.67%) VMware