Microsoft Certification Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 68 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.04% 1.53% 1.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.15% 4.88% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 12
10th Percentile £320 £158 £129
25th Percentile £613 £223 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £287 £238
Median % change year-on-year +118.15% +20.63% -21.49%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £438
90th Percentile £728 £479 £440
England median daily rate £500 £514 £425
% change year-on-year -2.68% +20.88% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £20.65 -
25th Percentile £45.22 £21.62 £20.25
Median hourly rate £48.56 £23.24 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.95% +8.09% -
75th Percentile £51.91 £24.86 £22.75
90th Percentile - £25.83 -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -8.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 254 328 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.16% 31.42% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 228 163
10th Percentile £167 £229 £178
25th Percentile £250 £363 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £484 £420
Median % change year-on-year -25.06% +15.18% +12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £529
90th Percentile £662 £700 £607
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 49 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.90 £13.20
25th Percentile £14.72 £16.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £16.83 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% -21.72% +11.69%
75th Percentile £35.56 £26.48 £26.12
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Lincolnshire +17 7 £625 +295.57% 3
Leicestershire +9 1 - - 2
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (12.50%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (12.50%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (12.50%) Cash Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) X++
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MCP
3 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) XenApp
2 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle