Microsoft Certification Contracts 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 272 398
Rank change year-on-year +10 +126 +57
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 86 116 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.66% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.69% 2.80% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 84 71
10th Percentile £209 £183 £175
25th Percentile £338 £277 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £669
90th Percentile £680 £743 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +22.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £28.41 - £8.00
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +5.16% -

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 3,194 4,139 5,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.85% 23.68% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,145 2,814 3,859
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 108 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.19 £19.32
25th Percentile £24.06 £19.98 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £25.00 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -40.83% -5.06%
75th Percentile £55.25 £42.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £67.63 £68.23 £87.50
England median hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £53.35
% change year-on-year -7.50% -25.02% +30.35%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in London

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 21 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
Central London +4 8 £619 +41.43% 10
West London +15 3 £550 +22.22% 7
South London - 2 £223 -
East London - 1 £585 -
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (16.28%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.16%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.33%) Alphatax
3 1 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.65%) Azure
2 22 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (20.93%) Entra ID
4 17 (19.77%) AWS
5 10 (11.63%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (9.30%) Power Platform
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (8.14%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.98%) OneDrive
9 4 (4.65%) GCP
9 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.49%) Google Workspace
11 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.33%) GitHub
12 1 (1.16%) IaaS
12 1 (1.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.30%) Firewall
2 5 (5.81%) VPN
3 3 (3.49%) NAS
3 3 (3.49%) Network Security
3 3 (3.49%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (2.33%) DNS
4 2 (2.33%) S/MIME
4 2 (2.33%) SSL
4 2 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.16%) BGP
5 1 (1.16%) DHCP
5 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.16%) WAN
5 1 (1.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) Relational Database
2 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.65%) Power BI
4 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.16%) DTS
5 1 (1.16%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) NUnit
2 1 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (45.35%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Finance
3 13 (15.12%) Banking
4 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Legal
6 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Back Office
7 2 (2.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) International Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (13.95%) Lead
2 11 (12.79%) Analyst
3 8 (9.30%) Architect
3 8 (9.30%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Senior
4 7 (8.14%) Support Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Consultant
5 6 (6.98%) Developer
5 6 (6.98%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Desktop Support
6 5 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) CRM Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) CRM Business Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.47%) .NET
2 7 (8.14%) .NET Framework
2 7 (8.14%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (6.98%) .NET Core
3 6 (6.98%) WCF
3 6 (6.98%) Web Services
4 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET
4 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (5.81%) Autofac
4 5 (5.81%) Dapper ORM
4 5 (5.81%) Entity Framework
4 5 (5.81%) REST
4 5 (5.81%) SailPoint
4 5 (5.81%) StructureMap
5 3 (3.49%) OAuth
6 2 (2.33%) LDAP
6 2 (2.33%) OpenID
6 2 (2.33%) SAML
7 1 (1.16%) MSMQ
7 1 (1.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.30%) Insider Threat
3 5 (5.81%) N-Tier
3 5 (5.81%) PKI
4 3 (3.49%) NHS
4 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.49%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.16%) BYOD
5 1 (1.16%) Clustering
5 1 (1.16%) CMDB
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.16%) iPhone
5 1 (1.16%) Smart City
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (32.56%) Windows
2 8 (9.30%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.33%) Linux
4 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.16%) Android
5 1 (1.16%) VMS
5 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.05%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.93%) Agile
3 15 (17.44%) Computer Science
3 15 (17.44%) Project Management
4 13 (15.12%) Information Security
4 13 (15.12%) ITIL
5 12 (13.95%) CRM
5 12 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (12.79%) CI/CD
6 11 (12.79%) Data Loss Prevention
6 11 (12.79%) Data Protection
6 11 (12.79%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (12.79%) Migration
7 10 (11.63%) Cloud Security
7 10 (11.63%) Translating Business Requirements
8 9 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (10.47%) Data Privacy
8 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
9 8 (9.30%) Incident Response
9 8 (9.30%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.47%) Python
3 8 (9.30%) C#
3 8 (9.30%) SQL
4 6 (6.98%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.49%) Bash
5 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.33%) Java
6 2 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.16%) Bicep
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (37.21%) Degree
2 18 (20.93%) Azure Certification
3 15 (17.44%) AWS Certification
4 14 (16.28%) CISSP
5 11 (12.79%) CISM
6 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
7 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (6.98%) A+ Certification
9 5 (5.81%) MCPD
9 5 (5.81%) MCSD
9 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
10 4 (4.65%) MCSE
10 4 (4.65%) PMI Certification
10 4 (4.65%) PMP
11 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.49%) CISA
11 3 (3.49%) CRISC
11 3 (3.49%) MCSA
12 2 (2.33%) ISSEP
12 2 (2.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) GDPR
2 10 (11.63%) HIPAA
3 9 (10.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (9.30%) SOC 2
5 7 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (5.81%) QA
7 4 (4.65%) NIST
8 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
8 2 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.16%) HL7
9 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (34.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.33%) BitLocker
3 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) SCCM
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (9.30%) CASB
4 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.16%) logstash
6 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (93.02%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) Google
3 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.65%) Databricks
5 3 (3.49%) Okta
5 3 (3.49%) VMware
5 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.33%) Apple
6 2 (2.33%) Cisco
6 2 (2.33%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.16%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.16%) McAfee
7 1 (1.16%) Netskope
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle
7 1 (1.16%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.16%) TOWER Software