Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends 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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 55 62
Rank change year-on-year -30 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 26 37 43
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.20% 2.93% 2.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.80% 8.79% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 4
10th Percentile £152 £200 £100
25th Percentile £153 £225 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £375 £313
Median % change year-on-year -57.33% +20.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £425 £556 £416
90th Percentile £563 £638 £444
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 36
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.14 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -7.12% +5.16%
75th Percentile £17.00 £16.30 £21.37
90th Percentile £20.15 - £21.42
England median hourly rate £55.00 £17.44 £16.30
% change year-on-year +215.37% +6.99% -6.86%

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 542 421 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.95% 33.33% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 162 165
10th Percentile £183 £195 £213
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £615
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 146 167
10th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £15.75
25th Percentile £25.34 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.37 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.31% -22.40% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £81.73 £85.38 £75.95
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certification

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 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the East of England

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certification

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 14 August 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +6 17 £155 -69.00% 7
Cambridgeshire -9 4 - - 4
Bedfordshire -1 2 £505 -15.83% 3
Norfolk -16 2 - - 2
Essex -24 1 £505 +124.44% 11
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) VPN
2 4 (15.38%) Wireless
3 2 (7.69%) DNS
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) iSCSI
3 2 (7.69%) NAS
3 2 (7.69%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) RS-232
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.85%) Big Data
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 12 (46.15%) Support Specialist
2 12 (46.15%) Technical Specialist
2 12 (46.15%) Technical Support Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Technician
4 1 (3.85%) IT Support
4 1 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) ONVIF
2 1 (3.85%) Express.js
2 1 (3.85%) MERN Stack
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) PMI
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
4 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.85%) AIX
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (53.85%) CRM
3 13 (50.00%) Time Management
4 11 (42.31%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 6 (23.08%) ITIL
6 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
6 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (19.23%) ITSM
6 5 (19.23%) Service Management
7 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 4 (15.38%) Inventory Management
7 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
8 3 (11.54%) Analytics
9 2 (7.69%) Case Management
9 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2
9 2 (7.69%) Project Management
9 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
9 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) Degree
2 17 (65.38%) A+ Certification
3 15 (57.69%) CCNA
3 15 (57.69%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (50.00%) MCSA
5 5 (19.23%) MCSE
5 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
6 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
7 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
8 2 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
8 2 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (3.85%) HNC
9 1 (3.85%) HND
9 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
1 2 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.85%) SCOM
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam