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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 109 149
Rank change year-on-year -1 +40 +11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 12 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.66% 0.80% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.68% 3.63% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 11
10th Percentile £286 £263 £413
25th Percentile £397 £406 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £692 £679 £657
90th Percentile £762 £750 £700
Central London median daily rate £606 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +5.43% -4.17% +14.29%

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 447 468 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.59% 21.94% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 297 422
10th Percentile £359 £384 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £21.41 - £17.31
25th Percentile £26.16 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £45.33 £21.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +115.83% -41.83% -17.01%
75th Percentile £65.12 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £82.79 - £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £36.10
% change year-on-year +43.67% -33.52% -17.01%

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 July 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
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 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (8.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) Intranet
1 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) International Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 3 (25.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) iPad
1 3 (25.00%) iPhone
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS X
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Investment Management
4 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Observability
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (8.33%) MCSA
4 1 (8.33%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Istio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Avaya
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) Polycom
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Wyse