Microsoft Certification Contracts 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 116 163
Rank change year-on-year +2 +47 -12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.37% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.09% 1.81% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £350 £240 £477
25th Percentile £469 £313 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £716 £641 £635
90th Percentile £764 £717 £645
Central London median daily rate £575 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +31.43% -20.45% +4.76%

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 430 443 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.47% 20.39% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 292 410
10th Percentile £402 £376 £374
25th Percentile £458 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -7.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +13.19%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

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 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 6 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
London Bridge - 1 £238 -
Microsoft Certification
Central London

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) International Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Identity Management Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) IT Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Support Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow