Microsoft Certification Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 58 79
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 36 55 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.84% 2.88% 2.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.25% 9.24% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 26
10th Percentile £164 £100 £105
25th Percentile - £101 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £135 £325
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -58.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £525 £210 £650
90th Percentile £593 £344 £744
England median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% +20.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 44 14
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.46 £21.43 -
England median hourly rate £17.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +6.99% +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 320 595 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.12% 31.17% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 224 380
10th Percentile £189 £206 £222
25th Percentile £231 £349 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £721 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 220 195
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire +2 29 £413 +83.33% 14
Norfolk +6 3 £170 - 4
Hertfordshire - 3 £500 - 20
Essex +7 1 - - 15
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 22 (61.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 22 (61.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) Metadata
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Analyst
1 27 (75.00%) Service Analyst
1 27 (75.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 18 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 18 (50.00%) Technical Services Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Call Centre Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support
4 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Data Modeller
5 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Network Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) Customer Service
2 28 (77.78%) ITIL
3 27 (75.00%) Incident Management
4 24 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (61.11%) Mathematics
5 22 (61.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (2.78%) Analytics
7 1 (2.78%) Business Transformation
7 1 (2.78%) Contract Negotiation
7 1 (2.78%) Data Strategy
7 1 (2.78%) DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Logical Data Model
7 1 (2.78%) Metadata Management
7 1 (2.78%) Physical Data Model
7 1 (2.78%) Software Asset Management
7 1 (2.78%) Software Licensing
7 1 (2.78%) Task Automation
7 1 (2.78%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.78%) Python
1 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (80.56%) A+ Certification
2 28 (77.78%) MCSA
3 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CCNP
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 24 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 27 (75.00%) Citrix
2 27 (75.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.78%) VMware