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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 113 108
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 +52
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 10 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.61% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.62% 2.48% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £368 £286 £263
25th Percentile £419 £397 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +5.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £692 £679
90th Percentile £775 £762 £750
Central London median daily rate £500 £606 £575
% change year-on-year -17.53% +5.43% -4.17%

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 617 443 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.28% 24.45% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 299 300
10th Percentile £413 £361 £374
25th Percentile £463 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £18.92 £21.41 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.16 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.33 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.81% +115.83% -41.83%
75th Percentile £52.16 £65.12 £27.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £82.79 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% -33.52%

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 4 July 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) DKIM
4 1 (10.00%) DMARC
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) E-Discovery
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) MCSE
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) VMware