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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 69 96
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 34 27 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.62% 1.76% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.23% 6.26% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 11
10th Percentile £201 £87 £107
25th Percentile £222 £148 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £206 £320
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -35.55% +93.94%
75th Percentile £512 £269 £394
90th Percentile £581 £348 £425
England median daily rate £450 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.15% +21.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £15.86
90th Percentile - - £15.93
England median hourly rate £18.00 £16.03 £17.75
% change year-on-year +12.29% -9.69% +14.52%

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 413 431 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.84% 28.17% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 153 300
10th Percentile £198 £200 £272
25th Percentile £363 £306 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £676 £588 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 131 154
10th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £28.21 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.32 £43.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.12% +95.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62.63 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.08 £67.50 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -6 13 £213 -5.56% 11
Bedfordshire -5 8 £600 +168.16% 9
Essex +6 6 £300 - 26
Norfolk - 6 £200 - 7
Hertfordshire +2 1 £500 +166.67% 18
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 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.94%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Purview
3 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (11.76%) OneDrive
6 3 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (8.82%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.88%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.94%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (14.71%) LAN
2 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle Database
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) Metadata
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Retail
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (55.88%) Analyst
2 14 (41.18%) Service Analyst
2 14 (41.18%) Service Desk Analyst
3 11 (32.35%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Technical Services Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Call Centre Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Design Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Security Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Support Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Technical Support
5 5 (14.71%) Technical Support Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) HTML
1 2 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (2.94%) Express.js
2 1 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (2.94%) MERN Stack
2 1 (2.94%) Node.js
2 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) NHS
2 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Social Media
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) IVR
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (38.24%) Customer Service
3 12 (35.29%) ITIL
4 11 (32.35%) Incident Management
5 10 (29.41%) Service Delivery
6 6 (17.65%) Mathematics
7 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (14.71%) GAP Analysis
7 5 (14.71%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (14.71%) Impact Analysis
7 5 (14.71%) Security Patching
7 5 (14.71%) Zero Trust
8 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (11.76%) Identity Management
8 4 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (11.76%) Privileged Identity Management
8 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
9 3 (8.82%) Analytics
9 3 (8.82%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) A+ Certification
2 12 (35.29%) Degree
3 11 (32.35%) MCSA
4 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
5 5 (14.71%) HNC
5 5 (14.71%) HND
5 5 (14.71%) MCP
5 5 (14.71%) MCSE
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.94%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (14.71%) GDPR
2 5 (14.71%) HIPAA
2 5 (14.71%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.94%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 16 (47.06%) Citrix
3 14 (41.18%) ServiceNow
4 5 (14.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Facebook
5 1 (2.94%) Instagram
5 1 (2.94%) Twitter