Microsoft Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 261 361
Rank change year-on-year +27 +100 +30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 282 329 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 0.88% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.44% 2.90% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 208 245
10th Percentile £200 £183 £204
25th Percentile £286 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £594
90th Percentile £669 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 54 14
10th Percentile - £13.69 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £33.75 £21.37 £18.75
90th Percentile £37.50 - £24.16
UK median hourly rate £17.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +6.99% +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,202 11,364 13,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.93% 30.49% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,173 7,050 8,689
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.81% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 986 641
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +34.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £77.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.53 £40.97 £55.25
% change year-on-year -32.80% -25.85% +24.16%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +21 100 £500 - 497
North of England +19 54 £425 -4.49% 281
North West +19 46 £425 +6.25% 140
South East +35 39 £540 +16.76% 255
East of England +6 33 £225 +66.67% 139
South West +21 26 £498 -7.44% 79
Midlands +9 23 £279 -50.88% 222
West Midlands +17 19 £246 -61.30% 138
Yorkshire +5 5 £413 -13.16% 120
East Midlands -6 4 £496 +22.32% 77
North East -3 3 £200 -57.89% 27
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 45 (15.96%) SharePoint
2 35 (12.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.35%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (8.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 127 (45.04%) Azure
2 122 (43.26%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (18.79%) Entra ID
4 31 (10.99%) Power Platform
5 27 (9.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 26 (9.22%) OneDrive
7 25 (8.87%) AWS
8 17 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (4.96%) GCP
11 13 (4.61%) Power Automate
12 12 (4.26%) PowerApps
13 10 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.19%) IaaS
15 8 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (2.48%) Azure AKS
17 6 (2.13%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.93%) VPN
2 27 (9.57%) Firewall
2 27 (9.57%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (4.96%) LAN
4 13 (4.61%) Fibre Channel
4 13 (4.61%) iSCSI
5 11 (3.90%) DNS
5 11 (3.90%) SAN
5 11 (3.90%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.55%) Network Security
7 8 (2.84%) DHCP
8 7 (2.48%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (2.13%) Skype
9 6 (2.13%) WAN
10 5 (1.77%) NAS
11 3 (1.06%) Internet
11 3 (1.06%) IP Telephony
11 3 (1.06%) S/MIME
11 3 (1.06%) SSL
11 3 (1.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.87%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.74%) Power BI
3 14 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (3.55%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.77%) MySQL
6 5 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.42%) Metadata
8 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.35%) Power Query
10 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.90%) JIRA
2 7 (2.48%) Git
3 3 (1.06%) ERwin
4 2 (0.71%) GitLab
4 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) NUnit
5 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.35%) Subversion
5 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 119 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (14.54%) Finance
4 24 (8.51%) Banking
5 21 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (7.45%) Legal
6 16 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.13%) Retail
11 4 (1.42%) French Language
11 4 (1.42%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Military
12 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.35%) International Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
13 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (23.76%) Analyst
2 43 (15.25%) Architect
3 27 (9.57%) Service Analyst
3 27 (9.57%) Service Desk Analyst
4 20 (7.09%) Senior
4 20 (7.09%) Support Engineer
5 19 (6.74%) Desktop Support
5 19 (6.74%) Technical Analyst
6 17 (6.03%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 17 (6.03%) Support Analyst
7 16 (5.67%) IT Support
7 16 (5.67%) Lead
7 16 (5.67%) Security Engineer
8 15 (5.32%) Infrastructure Architect
8 15 (5.32%) Technical Services Analyst
9 14 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.96%) Deployment Engineer
10 13 (4.61%) VMware Architect
11 12 (4.26%) Developer
11 12 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.32%) .NET
2 10 (3.55%) .NET Core
3 8 (2.84%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (2.48%) .NET Framework
4 7 (2.48%) ARM Templates
4 7 (2.48%) REST
5 6 (2.13%) ADO
5 6 (2.13%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.13%) WCF
5 6 (2.13%) Web Services
6 5 (1.77%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (1.77%) Autofac
6 5 (1.77%) Dapper ORM
6 5 (1.77%) Entity Framework
6 5 (1.77%) StructureMap
7 3 (1.06%) HTML
7 3 (1.06%) JSON
7 3 (1.06%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.06%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.38%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.61%) PKI
3 8 (2.84%) Insider Threat
4 7 (2.48%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.77%) NHS
5 5 (1.77%) N-Tier
5 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.42%) iPad
6 4 (1.42%) iPhone
7 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 132 (46.81%) Windows
2 50 (17.73%) Windows Server
3 35 (12.41%) Windows 10
4 21 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (6.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (4.61%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.19%) Linux
7 9 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.84%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.77%) Windows 8
9 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.77%) Windows XP
10 4 (1.42%) Unix
11 3 (1.06%) VMS
12 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (30.85%) ITIL
3 48 (17.02%) Customer Service
4 36 (12.77%) Incident Management
5 34 (12.06%) Computer Science
6 33 (11.70%) Agile
7 30 (10.64%) Service Delivery
8 29 (10.28%) Analytics
8 29 (10.28%) Migration
9 28 (9.93%) Data Loss Prevention
10 25 (8.87%) DevOps
10 25 (8.87%) Information Security
11 24 (8.51%) Cloud Security
11 24 (8.51%) Project Management
12 23 (8.16%) Data Protection
13 22 (7.80%) Identity Access Management
14 20 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (7.09%) Roadmaps
15 19 (6.74%) CI/CD
15 19 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 56 (19.86%) PowerShell
2 47 (16.67%) SQL
3 16 (5.67%) C#
4 14 (4.96%) Python
5 13 (4.61%) Bash
5 13 (4.61%) T-SQL
6 8 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.48%) Bicep
8 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.35%) Java
10 1 (0.35%) Korn
10 1 (0.35%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (26.60%) Degree
2 68 (24.11%) Security Cleared
3 61 (21.63%) Azure Certification
4 48 (17.02%) A+ Certification
5 46 (16.31%) SC Cleared
6 44 (15.60%) MCSE
7 37 (13.12%) MCSA
8 20 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (7.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (6.38%) MCP
10 16 (5.67%) AWS Certification
11 14 (4.96%) CISSP
12 13 (4.61%) DV Cleared
13 11 (3.90%) CISM
13 11 (3.90%) VCP5
13 11 (3.90%) VCP6
14 7 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (2.13%) Master's Degree
16 5 (1.77%) PMI Certification
16 5 (1.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.80%) GDPR
2 18 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.61%) HIPAA
4 11 (3.90%) NIST
5 9 (3.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (3.19%) QA
5 9 (3.19%) SLA
6 8 (2.84%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.71%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.35%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 102 (36.17%) Active Directory
2 38 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.45%) vSphere
4 18 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.61%) NFS
6 7 (2.48%) Docker
7 6 (2.13%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.06%) Firmware
9 3 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.71%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (12.77%) SCCM
2 26 (9.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (6.03%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.61%) Terraform
5 8 (2.84%) CASB
5 8 (2.84%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.84%) WSUS
6 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.42%) Grafana
8 3 (1.06%) Ansible
8 3 (1.06%) Backup Exec
8 3 (1.06%) QRadar
9 2 (0.71%) Malwarebytes
9 2 (0.71%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.35%) Argo
10 1 (0.35%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.35%) Istio
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 272 (96.45%) Microsoft
2 47 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 44 (15.60%) VMware
4 35 (12.41%) Citrix
5 20 (7.09%) Veeam
6 15 (5.32%) Splunk
7 13 (4.61%) Google
7 13 (4.61%) NetApp
8 12 (4.26%) Cisco
9 9 (3.19%) Zscaler
10 8 (2.84%) Oracle
11 7 (2.48%) Darktrace
12 5 (1.77%) Apple
12 5 (1.77%) Canon
13 4 (1.42%) Databricks
13 4 (1.42%) Dell
14 3 (1.06%) Symantec
14 3 (1.06%) Varonis
15 2 (0.71%) Ivanti
15 2 (0.71%) Wyse