Microsoft Certification Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 173 175
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 40 43 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.84% 0.74% 0.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.19% 2.88% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 56
10th Percentile £225 £107 £123
25th Percentile £300 £272 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £190
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +176.32% -52.50%
75th Percentile £519 £675 £428
90th Percentile £638 £691 £600
England median daily rate £500 £508 £425
% change year-on-year -1.48% +19.41% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £15.39 - £16.25
25th Percentile £15.71 £16.25 £17.20
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -26.31% -
75th Percentile £19.00 £26.81 £44.50
90th Percentile £19.15 £40.43 £52.75
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -8.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,254 1,492 1,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.20% 25.55% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 1,053 968
10th Percentile £285 £320 £200
25th Percentile £413 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +8.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £588
90th Percentile £720 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 71 85
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.03 £24.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +9.09% +29.72%
75th Percentile £40.65 £49.52 £50.78
90th Percentile £61.00 £65.75 £64.09
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -2.60%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
North West +17 29 £381 -30.68% 37
Yorkshire +17 6 £438 +52.17% 16
North East +23 5 £475 +331.82% 7
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (42.50%) Azure
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.00%) IaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.00%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
2 4 (10.00%) DHCP
2 4 (10.00%) LAN
2 4 (10.00%) SAN
2 4 (10.00%) WAN
3 3 (7.50%) Firewall
4 2 (5.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) ThoughtSpot
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Senior
2 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Desktop Support
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) IT Support
4 4 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Service Desk Support
5 3 (7.50%) Support Officer
6 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Support
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (5.00%) Clustering
2 2 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (67.50%) Windows
2 18 (45.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (27.50%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.00%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.50%) Android
6 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.50%) Linux
6 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) ITIL
2 8 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.00%) Service Management
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (10.00%) High Availability
5 4 (10.00%) Line Management
5 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 3 (7.50%) Data Encryption
6 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (7.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (7.50%) Process Improvement
6 3 (7.50%) RBAC
6 3 (7.50%) Server Patching
6 3 (7.50%) Task Automation
7 2 (5.00%) Change Management
7 2 (5.00%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) Bicep
3 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) MCSE
2 10 (25.00%) Degree
3 6 (15.00%) CCNA
3 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (10.00%) MCP
5 4 (10.00%) MCSA
6 3 (7.50%) A+ Certification
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.00%) CCENT
7 2 (5.00%) MCITP
7 2 (5.00%) MOS
8 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.50%) GIAC
8 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (2.50%) MCTS
8 1 (2.50%) RHCE
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (17.50%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.50%) SCOM
2 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.00%) VMware
3 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco
5 3 (7.50%) CA
5 3 (7.50%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) Sophos
7 1 (2.50%) Adobe
7 1 (2.50%) Apple
7 1 (2.50%) Carbon Black
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) HP
7 1 (2.50%) Red Hat