Microsoft Certification Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Certification
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 3 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.94% - 1.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.21% - 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile £475 - £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.66%
75th Percentile £525 - £747
90th Percentile - - £754
East of England median daily rate £200 £135 £325
% change year-on-year +48.15% -58.46% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £15.29 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -6.20% +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 136 294 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 42.63% 35.00% 46.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 116 204
10th Percentile £401 £206 £273
25th Percentile £479 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -8.05% +20.83%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £719 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 88 84
10th Percentile £39.30 £38.64 £49.00
25th Percentile £53.13 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.79% -31.20% +11.61%
75th Percentile £81.73 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £74.28
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Letchworth - 1 £500 -
Stevenage - 1 - - 2
Microsoft Certification
East of England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modeller
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft