Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 93 108
Rank change year-on-year -32 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 16 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.73% 1.32% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.85% 5.28% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 8
10th Percentile £180 £234 £511
25th Percentile £372 £450 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £534 £625 £703
90th Percentile £661 £664 £750
Central London median daily rate £444 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -19.32% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £112.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £112.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 561 436 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.49% 25.06% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 294 312
10th Percentile £405 £327 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £659
90th Percentile £735 £738 £774
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £23.30 £21.41 £23.10
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.83 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.63% +3.06% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.41 £112.00
90th Percentile £119.20 £82.79 -
Central London median hourly rate £56.00 £31.32 £27.00
% change year-on-year +78.83% +15.98% +50.00%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
3 6 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (37.50%) Power Automate
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Functions
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
5 3 (18.75%) Serverless
6 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Databricks
7 1 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (6.25%) DKIM
3 1 (6.25%) DMARC
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Field Service Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Field Service Technician
3 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Junior DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
1 2 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) VMS
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Coaching
3 4 (25.00%) CRM
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) AI
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) MCSE
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) A+ Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CCNP
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Firmware
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) EMC
3 1 (6.25%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) VMware