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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 104 127
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 +55
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 23 20 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.35% 0.95% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.15% 3.74% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 16
10th Percentile £233 £538 £178
25th Percentile £313 £563 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £625 £719 £672
90th Percentile £660 £750 £691
Central London median daily rate £509 £588 £563
% change year-on-year -13.36% +4.44% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 -
% change year-on-year -77.26% - -

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 447 535 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.33% 25.42% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 318 348
10th Percentile £325 £350 £345
25th Percentile £438 £463 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £561
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +0.22% -4.47%
75th Percentile £663 £657 £688
90th Percentile £731 £775 £815
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £20.55 £23.10 £18.28
25th Percentile £25.75 £27.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £45.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -28.91% +5.72%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £51.14 - £76.38
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £39.47
% change year-on-year -15.38% -17.65% -8.73%

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 1 November 2025.

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 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (34.78%) Power Platform
4 7 (30.43%) Power Automate
4 7 (30.43%) PowerApps
5 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
6 4 (17.39%) IaaS
6 4 (17.39%) PaaS
6 4 (17.39%) SaaS
6 4 (17.39%) ShareGate
7 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.35%) AWS
9 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) DHCP
3 1 (4.35%) Internet
3 1 (4.35%) Intranet
3 1 (4.35%) IP Telephony
3 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) French Language
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Desktop Support
2 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Desktop Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Desktop Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Desktop Support
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Senior Support Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Support Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Service Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) ADO
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) iPad
1 6 (26.09%) iPhone
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) BYOD
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Mac OS
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.70%) Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Mac OS X
5 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) ITIL
2 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Investment Management
4 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (13.04%) Change Management
6 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.70%) AI
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.70%) CRM
7 2 (8.70%) Data Governance
7 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
7 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (4.35%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) C#
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Bicep
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) MCSA
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (8.70%) MCITP
4 2 (8.70%) MCSE
5 1 (4.35%) CCNA
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) MCP
5 1 (4.35%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (13.04%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) SCOM
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Istio
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Citrix
2 2 (8.70%) HP
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (4.35%) Avaya
3 1 (4.35%) Blue Prism
3 1 (4.35%) Polycom
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) UiPath
3 1 (4.35%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Wyse