Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Microsoft Certification
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 12.50% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £447 £500 £411
% change year-on-year -10.60% +21.73% -21.01%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Home Counties

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 Home Counties.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 75.00% - 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £690 - £156
25th Percentile £750 - £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - £280
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile £1,050 - £364
90th Percentile £1,110 - £408
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +0.42%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft