Microsoft Certification Contracts in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certification
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 42 58
Rank change year-on-year +24 +16 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 13 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.51% 0.51% 2.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% 1.31% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 17
10th Percentile £600 - £363
25th Percentile £628 - £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £643 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +33.97% +4.92%
75th Percentile £743 - £592
90th Percentile - - £594
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £630 £643 £505
% change year-on-year -2.03% +27.34% +10.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 78 153 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 45.09% 39.23% 47.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 124 299
10th Percentile £384 £357 £275
25th Percentile £420 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £470
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% +9.95% -3.59%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £550
90th Percentile £630 £780 £629
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £518 £517 £470
% change year-on-year +0.15% +9.95% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £15.70 - -
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.85 £9.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +80.00% -56.00%
75th Percentile £37.13 £22.50 £10.50
90th Percentile £47.10 £22.53 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £35.75 £22.50 £10.00
% change year-on-year +58.89% +125.00% -56.00%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) IaaS
1 7 (53.85%) PaaS
1 7 (53.85%) SaaS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) VSAN
2 2 (15.38%) BGP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (15.38%) MPLS
2 2 (15.38%) NGFW
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Architect
2 9 (69.23%) Senior
2 9 (69.23%) Senior Architect
2 9 (69.23%) Senior Technical Architect
2 9 (69.23%) Technical Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Principal Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior VMware Architect
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (61.54%) PKI
3 6 (46.15%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 13 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
2 12 (92.31%) Continuous Delivery
2 12 (92.31%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (92.31%) ITIL
2 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 12 (92.31%) Zachman Framework
3 9 (69.23%) DevSecOps
4 8 (61.54%) IT Strategy
4 8 (61.54%) Matrix Organization
4 8 (61.54%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (53.85%) Use Case
6 5 (38.46%) Requirements Management
7 4 (30.77%) Agile
7 4 (30.77%) DevOps
7 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (30.77%) Prototyping
7 4 (30.77%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) MCSE
2 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
3 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (69.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (38.46%) CCNP
5 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
7 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) NCSC
1 12 (92.31%) NIST
2 8 (61.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (69.23%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco
2 9 (69.23%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft