Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Certification
England > London

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 270 289
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +143
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 111 113 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.75% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.72% 2.91% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 76
10th Percentile £303 £215 £206
25th Percentile £406 £286 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £564 £600
90th Percentile £663 £638 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £506
% change year-on-year - -1.23% +19.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - £45.13 £24.00
25th Percentile - £70.21 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +220.00% -
75th Percentile - - £35.47
90th Percentile - - £37.43
England median hourly rate £19.63 £21.46 £18.75
% change year-on-year -8.55% +14.45% +20.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,084 3,881 4,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.40% 25.82% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,844 2,449 3,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 58 88
10th Percentile £20.65 £20.88 £19.18
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.06 £23.19
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.25 £51.19
Median % change year-on-year -31.62% -27.23% +11.89%
75th Percentile £59.88 £59.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Central London +9 27 £509 -11.48% 9
West London - 4 £438 - 23
South London -4 2 £494 +203.85% 9
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (17.12%) SharePoint
2 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (65.77%) Azure
2 50 (45.05%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (28.83%) Entra ID
4 30 (27.03%) Power Platform
5 21 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (16.22%) PowerApps
7 17 (15.32%) Power Automate
8 16 (14.41%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (8.11%) GitHub
11 7 (6.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (6.31%) SaaS
12 6 (5.41%) AWS
12 6 (5.41%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (4.50%) IaaS
13 5 (4.50%) PaaS
13 5 (4.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.61%) Firewall
2 10 (9.01%) VPN
3 9 (8.11%) DNS
4 6 (5.41%) DHCP
5 4 (3.60%) SSL
6 3 (2.70%) S/MIME
6 3 (2.70%) Softphone
7 2 (1.80%) DKIM
7 2 (1.80%) DMARC
7 2 (1.80%) LAN
7 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.80%) WAN
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.90%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.90%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.90%) VLAN
8 1 (0.90%) Wireless
8 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Power BI
2 7 (6.31%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.80%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.80%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.90%) Metadata
6 1 (0.90%) Power Query
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
1 2 (1.80%) Git
1 2 (1.80%) JDeveloper
2 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 39 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 32 (28.83%) Finance
3 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.81%) Banking
4 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.21%) Marketing
6 4 (3.60%) Legal
7 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.90%) French Language
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.90%) International Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Military
7 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (19.82%) Architect
2 19 (17.12%) Senior
3 12 (10.81%) Lead
4 11 (9.91%) Analyst
5 9 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (8.11%) Security Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Administrator
7 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
7 7 (6.31%) Desktop Support
8 6 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Desktop Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Senior Desktop Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Senior Desktop Support
8 6 (5.41%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Senior Support Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Graph
2 11 (9.91%) OAuth
3 10 (9.01%) .NET
4 8 (7.21%) REST
5 7 (6.31%) OpenID
5 7 (6.31%) RESTful
6 6 (5.41%) ARM Templates
6 6 (5.41%) SAML
7 5 (4.50%) JSON
8 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.70%) PySpark
9 2 (1.80%) CSS
9 2 (1.80%) Jest
9 2 (1.80%) LDAP
9 2 (1.80%) Next.js
9 2 (1.80%) React
9 2 (1.80%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.90%) SOAP
10 1 (0.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) PKI
2 8 (7.21%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.31%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.41%) iPad
4 6 (5.41%) iPhone
5 5 (4.50%) BYOD
5 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.60%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.80%) Replication
7 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.90%) CCTV
8 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.90%) IoT
8 1 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.43%) Windows
2 10 (9.01%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.11%) Mac OS
4 5 (4.50%) Linux
5 3 (2.70%) VMS
5 3 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.80%) Android
7 1 (0.90%) Unix
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.03%) DevOps
2 24 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 22 (19.82%) Migration
3 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.92%) Computer Science
5 19 (17.12%) ITIL
6 16 (14.41%) Agile
7 14 (12.61%) AI
7 14 (12.61%) Analytics
7 14 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (12.61%) Data Governance
8 13 (11.71%) Data Loss Prevention
9 12 (10.81%) CRM
9 12 (10.81%) Identity Management
10 11 (9.91%) Cloud Security
10 11 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (9.91%) Roadmaps
10 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (9.01%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (9.01%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.93%) PowerShell
2 12 (10.81%) Python
3 11 (9.91%) SQL
4 7 (6.31%) Bicep
4 7 (6.31%) C#
4 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.60%) Bash
7 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (36.04%) Degree
2 30 (27.03%) Azure Certification
3 17 (15.32%) Security Cleared
4 14 (12.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.11%) MCP
6 8 (7.21%) CISSP
7 7 (6.31%) MCSE
8 5 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.60%) MCITP
9 4 (3.60%) MCSA
10 3 (2.70%) CISM
10 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.80%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.80%) CCNA
11 2 (1.80%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.60%) GDPR
2 4 (3.60%) NIST
2 4 (3.60%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.80%) QA
4 2 (1.80%) SLA
4 2 (1.80%) WCAG
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 47 (42.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.31%) vSphere
3 6 (5.41%) Docker
4 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.80%) Firmware
6 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.90%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.91%) Terraform
3 9 (8.11%) SCCM
4 8 (7.21%) SCOM
5 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.80%) QRadar
6 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.90%) Argo
7 1 (0.90%) CASB
7 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.90%) Nessus
7 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (98.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.01%) VMware
3 7 (6.31%) Databricks
4 6 (5.41%) Dell
5 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.70%) Adobe
6 3 (2.70%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Citrix
7 2 (1.80%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.80%) Foundry
7 2 (1.80%) Google
7 2 (1.80%) HP
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.90%) Apple
8 1 (0.90%) Remedy
8 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Tenable
8 1 (0.90%) UiPath