Microsoft Certification Contracts 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 111 153
Rank change year-on-year -6 +42 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.47% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.97% 2.39% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 10
10th Percentile £325 £240 £509
25th Percentile £453 £313 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £500 £623
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -19.68% +18.57%
75th Percentile £737 £641 £663
90th Percentile £763 £717 £700
Central London median daily rate £619 £500 £623
% change year-on-year +23.75% -19.68% +18.57%

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 407 460 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.73% 21.23% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 292 408
10th Percentile £390 £376 £393
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -6.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £652 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £531 £575
% change year-on-year +3.53% -7.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £34.16 - £17.31
25th Percentile £44.32 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £20.91 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +198.94% -42.09% -17.01%
75th Percentile £81.88 £22.88 £53.50
90th Percentile £92.75 £25.35 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £21.00 £36.10
% change year-on-year +91.69% -41.83% -17.01%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

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 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the City of London

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Table
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
1 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) International Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Identity Management Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (12.50%) MCSA
4 1 (12.50%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Istio
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Avaya
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Polycom
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Wyse