Microsoft Certification Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 130 149
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 24 33 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.88% 0.97% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.70% 3.43% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 31
10th Percentile £123 £133 £110
25th Percentile £400 £166 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £224 £275
Median % change year-on-year +174.55% -18.55% -40.54%
75th Percentile £636 £475 £440
90th Percentile £654 £480 £594
England median daily rate £500 £503 £425
% change year-on-year -0.50% +18.24% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £18.61 £18.60 -
25th Percentile £23.04 £19.13 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.11 £20.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% -4.78% -
75th Percentile £42.84 £23.24 £22.75
90th Percentile £48.28 £25.18 -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -8.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 889 961 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.52% 28.16% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 609 671
10th Percentile £230 £256 £206
25th Percentile £325 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 77 35
10th Percentile £13.23 £11.00 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.50 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £18.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -6.25% +18.91%
75th Percentile £42.50 £27.13 £24.00
90th Percentile £56.50 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
% change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
East Midlands +20 14 £406 +81.84% 12
West Midlands +19 10 £615 +173.33% 20
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.17%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Network Security
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) VPN
3 3 (12.50%) DNS
3 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (4.17%) DHCP
5 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.17%) LAN
5 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
General
1 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) DBA
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Designer
2 4 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (8.33%) Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Citrix Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Citrix Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Junior
4 2 (8.33%) Junior Desktop Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) LDAP
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) SOAP
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (25.00%) High Availability
2 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
3 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
3 5 (20.83%) SIEM
4 4 (16.67%) Analytics
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) X++
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Degree
2 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (20.83%) CISSP
4 5 (20.83%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (20.83%) MCITP
4 5 (20.83%) MCSE
4 5 (20.83%) MCTS
5 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (8.33%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (8.33%) MCP
7 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
7 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
7 1 (4.17%) MCDST
7 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) XenApp
2 2 (8.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Apple
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) Citrix
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle