Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Newport

Microsoft Certification
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newport with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 2.27% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £550 £190 £277
% change year-on-year +189.70% -31.40% -38.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24 53 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 54.55% 70.67% 55.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 37
10th Percentile £452 £205 £450
25th Percentile £525 £254 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £625
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -36.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £713 - £675
90th Percentile £718 £528 £773
South Wales median daily rate £442 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +10.38% -27.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 28 8
10th Percentile £78.25 £15.20 £13.11
25th Percentile £79.38 £20.12 £19.34
Median hourly rate £82.50 £21.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +283.72% -50.86% +118.75%
75th Percentile £84.38 £47.81 £55.25
90th Percentile £84.75 £50.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £31.25 £21.30 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.75% -40.01% +63.22%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Newport

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware