Microsoft Certification Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 145 173
Rank change year-on-year +38 +28 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 62 39 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.87% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.81% 3.37% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 30 29
10th Percentile £204 £238 £107
25th Percentile £350 £300 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% -27.27% +139.13%
75th Percentile £591 £500 £675
90th Percentile £716 £639 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +22.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £15.39 -
25th Percentile - £15.71 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% - -28.35%
75th Percentile - £19.00 £26.44
90th Percentile - £19.15 £40.28
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,068 1,157 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.22% 25.04% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 658 974
10th Percentile £230 £313 £325
25th Percentile £375 £424 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -4.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 167 73
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £13.03 £25.75
Median hourly rate £27.31 £16.06 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year +70.07% -60.42% +4.04%
75th Percentile £57.51 £36.25 £49.52
90th Percentile £75.50 £63.75 £66.94
England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £52.93
% change year-on-year - -24.42% +27.98%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 2025. 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 +40 55 £493 +23.13% 54
Yorkshire +17 4 £400 +23.08% 52
North East -7 3 £200 -57.89% 19
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 19 (30.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (19.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (8.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (53.23%) Azure
2 28 (45.16%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (25.81%) Entra ID
4 11 (17.74%) GCP
5 10 (16.13%) IaaS
6 7 (11.29%) AWS
6 7 (11.29%) OneDrive
7 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.61%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.58%) Firewall
2 13 (20.97%) Network Security
3 11 (17.74%) VPN
4 10 (16.13%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (12.90%) LAN
6 7 (11.29%) SAN
7 5 (8.06%) DNS
8 4 (6.45%) DHCP
8 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.84%) WLAN
10 1 (1.61%) BGP
10 1 (1.61%) EIGRP
10 1 (1.61%) H.323
10 1 (1.61%) HSRP
10 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
10 1 (1.61%) MPLS
10 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.61%) VLAN
10 1 (1.61%) VoIP
10 1 (1.61%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
2 2 (3.23%) Power BI
2 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Git
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 35 (56.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (27.42%) Telecoms
4 13 (20.97%) Legal
5 7 (11.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.06%) Manufacturing
6 5 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.45%) Finance
7 4 (6.45%) French Language
8 3 (4.84%) Banking
9 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Analyst
1 13 (20.97%) Architect
2 11 (17.74%) Support Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) IT Support
4 8 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (11.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (11.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) IT Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 5 (8.06%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Desktop Support
7 5 (8.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) ADO
1 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.61%) LDAP
1 1 (1.61%) OAuth
1 1 (1.61%) OpenID
1 1 (1.61%) SAML
1 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.61%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 40 (64.52%) Windows
2 24 (38.71%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (12.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (11.29%) Linux
6 7 (11.29%) Windows 10
7 5 (8.06%) Windows 8
7 5 (8.06%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (8.06%) Windows XP
8 4 (6.45%) Unix
9 1 (1.61%) Android
9 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.19%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (22.58%) Project Delivery
4 13 (20.97%) Business Continuity
4 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
4 13 (20.97%) ITIL
5 12 (19.35%) High Availability
5 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (17.74%) Information Security
7 10 (16.13%) Change Management
7 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 10 (16.13%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 9 (14.52%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (12.90%) Asset Management
9 8 (12.90%) BCP
9 8 (12.90%) Business Continuity Planning
9 8 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (12.90%) Proactive Maintenance
9 8 (12.90%) Risk Assessment
10 7 (11.29%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (3.23%) SQL
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
3 1 (1.61%) Bicep
3 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.61%) Python
3 1 (1.61%) VB
3 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Azure Certification
2 19 (30.65%) Degree
3 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
4 8 (12.90%) A+ Certification
4 8 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (11.29%) AWS Certification
5 7 (11.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.68%) MCP
6 6 (9.68%) MCSE
7 4 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (3.23%) MCSA
9 1 (1.61%) CCNA
9 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.61%) CISSP
9 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.61%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) NCSC
2 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (43.55%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (16.13%) vSphere
4 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.61%) Docker
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (14.52%) SCCM
3 7 (11.29%) vCenter Server
4 4 (6.45%) WSUS
5 3 (4.84%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (29.03%) VMware
3 12 (19.35%) Google
4 5 (8.06%) Canon
5 4 (6.45%) Cisco
5 4 (6.45%) Citrix
5 4 (6.45%) Symantec
6 3 (4.84%) Veeam
7 2 (3.23%) Darktrace
7 2 (3.23%) Varonis
8 1 (1.61%) McAfee
8 1 (1.61%) Tanium
8 1 (1.61%) Workday
8 1 (1.61%) Zscaler