Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Microsoft Certification
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 3.76% 2.12% -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.63% 3.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £375
% change year-on-year -5.26% +26.67% -16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 108 132 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 81.20% 69.84% 71.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 55 122
10th Percentile £431 £418 £482
25th Percentile £460 £457 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -20.00% +46.37%
75th Percentile £564 £603 £670
90th Percentile £669 £683 £725
North West median daily rate £488 £493 £540
% change year-on-year -1.10% -8.70% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 7
10th Percentile £54.06 £23.22 £31.41
25th Percentile £58.43 £45.22 £35.93
Median hourly rate £63.40 £52.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.48% -0.59% -5.28%
75th Percentile £67.84 £73.56 £54.38
90th Percentile £68.12 £79.42 £59.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +78.92%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness +3 3 £470 - 1
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) MCSA
3 2 (40.00%) MCSE
3 2 (40.00%) VCAP
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) VMware