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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 113 123
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +51
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 11 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% 0.45% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.83% 1.82% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £353 £350 £240
25th Percentile £413 £469 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £536 £716 £625
90th Percentile £573 £764 £717
Central London median daily rate £523 £575 £438
% change year-on-year -9.13% +31.43% -20.45%

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 601 439 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.85% 24.89% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 297 295
10th Percentile £378 £390 £372
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £738 £769 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £549 £525
% change year-on-year -4.28% +4.48% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £18.71 £23.62 £19.45
25th Percentile £24.16 £26.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £45.33 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -33.74% +117.75% -59.97%
75th Percentile £55.37 £72.81 £27.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £89.13 £55.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.35% +7.67% -48.08%

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 21 April 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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) French Language
4 1 (9.09%) International Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Business Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Project Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) BYOD
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Change Control
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) MCSE
2 2 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (9.09%) MCSA
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) EMC
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) VMware