Microsoft Certification Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Certification
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 81 91
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 +3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 22 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.22% 1.00% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.81% 1.55% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 5
10th Percentile £492 - -
25th Percentile £600 £300 £102
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 £263
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +104.76% -44.74%
75th Percentile - £556 £500
90th Percentile - £601 £553
South East median daily rate £600 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +23.71% -3.00% +8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 578 965 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 58.32% 64.29% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 634 414
10th Percentile £311 £413 £261
25th Percentile £463 £473 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £596 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +13.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £613
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 70 50
10th Percentile - £26.93 £35.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £53.40 £55.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% -7.87% +3.75%
75th Percentile £59.69 £65.00 £73.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.30 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.88% -4.42% +33.33%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Hampshire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Hampshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Hampshire

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke +23 16 £650 +18.18% 2
Fleet - 3 £537 -
Southampton -1 1 £200 -33.33% 10
Farnborough - 1 £450 - 1
Romsey - 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) Fibre Channel
1 16 (72.73%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) SAN
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Architect
2 16 (72.73%) Infrastructure Architect
2 16 (72.73%) VMware Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Field Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Security Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Security Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) SIEM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Windows
2 16 (72.73%) Windows Server
2 16 (72.73%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
3 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Edge Virtualization
1 12 (54.55%) Performance Analysis
2 4 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 4 (18.18%) Operational Stability
3 3 (13.64%) Application Packaging
3 3 (13.64%) Business Strategy
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
3 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
3 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (13.64%) IT Strategy
3 3 (13.64%) ITIL
3 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
3 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (13.64%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (13.64%) User Experience
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Bash
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) MCSE
2 16 (72.73%) DV Cleared
2 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 12 (54.55%) VCP5
3 12 (54.55%) VCP6
3 12 (54.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (18.18%) Degree
5 3 (13.64%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (9.09%) CCNA
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (4.55%) A+ Certification
7 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (86.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (72.73%) NFS
2 16 (72.73%) VMware ESXi
2 16 (72.73%) vSphere
3 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) SCCM
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (86.36%) VMware
3 17 (77.27%) Splunk
4 16 (72.73%) NetApp
4 16 (72.73%) Veeam
5 3 (13.64%) Citrix
6 1 (4.55%) Dell