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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 109 130
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 22 19 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.25% 0.90% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.01% 3.75% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 16
10th Percentile £225 £520 £178
25th Percentile £404 £563 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £645
90th Percentile £669 £750 £684
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +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 439 507 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.04% 24.09% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 310 363
10th Percentile £328 £363 £342
25th Percentile £448 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £657 £691
90th Percentile £738 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £21.80 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.75 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +50.00% -58.26%
75th Percentile £64.66 - £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 - £65.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +27.70% +50.00% -58.26%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 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 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 7 (31.82%) Power Automate
4 7 (31.82%) PowerApps
5 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
6 4 (18.18%) ShareGate
7 3 (13.64%) IaaS
7 3 (13.64%) PaaS
7 3 (13.64%) SaaS
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (4.55%) AWS
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
9 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (4.55%) GitHub
9 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) Internet
3 1 (4.55%) Intranet
3 1 (4.55%) IP Telephony
3 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) NAS
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) International Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
1 7 (31.82%) Desktop Support
2 6 (27.27%) Desktop Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Desktop Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Desktop Support
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Support Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Service Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.55%) ADO
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) iPad
1 6 (27.27%) iPhone
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Mac OS
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.09%) Linux
5 1 (4.55%) Mac OS X
5 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.55%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (27.27%) Investment Management
4 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
4 5 (22.73%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
7 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.09%) CRM
7 2 (9.09%) DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (4.55%) API Integration
8 1 (4.55%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (4.55%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (4.55%) Microservices
8 1 (4.55%) Robotic Process Automation
8 1 (4.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) MCSA
2 3 (13.64%) MCSE
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.09%) MCITP
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CCNA
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.55%) MCP
4 1 (4.55%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) SCCM
2 2 (9.09%) SCOM
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Istio
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Citrix
2 2 (9.09%) HP
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Apple
3 1 (4.55%) Avaya
3 1 (4.55%) Blue Prism
3 1 (4.55%) Polycom
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) UiPath
3 1 (4.55%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Wyse