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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 100 111
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +34
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 18 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 1.18% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 4.76% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 9
10th Percentile £319 £221 £520
25th Percentile £403 £358 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.03% -14.96% +9.09%
75th Percentile £562 £622 £688
90th Percentile £678 £678 £758
Central London median daily rate £483 £510 £600
% change year-on-year -5.44% -14.96% +9.09%

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 584 441 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.63% 24.72% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 297 319
10th Percentile £413 £324 £395
25th Percentile £463 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.44%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £660
90th Percentile £734 £743 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +17.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £33.10 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £52.24 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% +33.33%

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 2 September 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
3 6 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (33.33%) Power Automate
4 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
6 3 (16.67%) Serverless
7 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (5.56%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) DKIM
2 1 (5.56%) DMARC
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) Power Query
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Field Service Technician
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Junior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 2 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) VMS
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) CRM
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Coaching
5 3 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 3 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Bicep
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (11.11%) CCNA
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) MCSE
5 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Firmware
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) EMC
2 1 (5.56%) Okta
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.56%) VMware