Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends 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 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 18 49
Rank change year-on-year -30 +31 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 4 22 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.89% 10.48% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.79% 20.18% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 4
10th Percentile £528 £209 £438
25th Percentile £550 £261 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £565 £572
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% -1.14% +19.07%
75th Percentile £627 £630 £643
90th Percentile £635 £743 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £595 £565 £613
% change year-on-year +5.31% -7.76% +27.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £12.00 -

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 224 109 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 49.78% 51.90% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 83 168
10th Percentile £381 £203 £303
25th Percentile £465 £367 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% +8.93%
75th Percentile £610 £566 £610
90th Percentile £640 £630 £708
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 10
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.10 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £15.89
Median hourly rate £18.32 £18.70 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +3.89% +24.14%
75th Percentile £29.61 £19.60 £19.50
90th Percentile - £20.14 £22.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £18.85 £18.00
% change year-on-year -2.81% +4.72% +24.14%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) IPv6
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) Multicast
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) CCDA
4 1 (25.00%) CCDP
4 1 (25.00%) CCIE
4 1 (25.00%) CCIP
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NCSC
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler