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 3 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 108 110
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +35
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 12 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 1.01% 0.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.98% 4.09% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 10
10th Percentile £350 £295 £441
25th Percentile £419 £425 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% -2.13% +4.44%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £683
90th Percentile £760 £687 £754
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +4.44%

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 606 465 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.28% 24.62% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 316 311
10th Percentile £411 £344 £400
25th Percentile £463 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £642 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £19.42 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £21.88 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £31.03 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +17.29% -31.91%
75th Percentile £57.02 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.86% +17.69% -23.40%

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 3 August 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
5 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (8.33%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DKIM
2 1 (8.33%) DMARC
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Developer
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Junior
2 1 (8.33%) Junior DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) AI
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) Okta
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (8.33%) VMware