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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 59 99
Rank change year-on-year +2 +40 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 32 54 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.86% 2.81% 1.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.63% 9.34% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 13
10th Percentile £200 £100 £109
25th Percentile £219 £101 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £135 £320
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -57.81% -14.67%
75th Percentile £422 £210 £388
90th Percentile £559 £344 £509
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 44 7
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £16.09 £21.37 £15.75
90th Percentile £16.30 - -
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 371 578 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.21% 30.09% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 214 340
10th Percentile £178 £220 £260
25th Percentile £239 £332 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £600 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 213 161
10th Percentile £15.46 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.74 £41.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +97.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.25 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.45 £74.65 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.76%

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 3 July 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
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 3 July 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 0 22 £413 +83.33% 20
Essex +12 4 £225 +125.00% 40
Bedfordshire -1 4 - - 16
Norfolk -3 1 £200 - 12
Hertfordshire - 1 £500 - 21
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (90.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (21.88%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (62.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.13%) Metadata
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Retail
3 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (71.88%) Analyst
1 23 (71.88%) Service Analyst
1 23 (71.88%) Service Desk Analyst
2 15 (46.88%) Technical Analyst
2 15 (46.88%) Technical Services Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Call Centre Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.13%) Developer
6 1 (3.13%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) HTML
1 1 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) ITIL
2 20 (62.50%) Customer Service
2 20 (62.50%) Incident Management
2 20 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (59.38%) Service Delivery
4 15 (46.88%) Mathematics
5 4 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 4 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
5 4 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 4 (12.50%) Zero Trust
6 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) ITSM
6 3 (9.38%) Service Management
7 2 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (3.13%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (71.88%) A+ Certification
2 20 (62.50%) MCSA
3 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (15.63%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 4 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (3.13%) ISO 22301
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 22 (68.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (84.38%) Microsoft
2 23 (71.88%) ServiceNow
3 20 (62.50%) Citrix