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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 112 115
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +42
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.49% 2.24% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile £438 £233 £240
25th Percentile £475 £332 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £714 £641
90th Percentile £850 £762 £717
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -13.04%

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 603 401 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.73% 23.85% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 270 282
10th Percentile £413 £398 £382
25th Percentile £463 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £551 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +2.51% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £677 £650
90th Percentile £738 £766 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.24% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £18.71 £34.16 -
25th Percentile £24.16 £44.32 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.75 £62.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +200.26% -42.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £81.88 £24.20
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £25.88
Central London median hourly rate £41.75 £29.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +43.63% +21.59% -33.78%

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 June 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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) International Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) BYOD
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) E-Discovery
3 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) MCSA
3 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) EMC
2 1 (11.11%) VMware