Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.61% 0.61% 1.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 2.70% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.45%
75th Percentile - - £324
90th Percentile - - £332
East Midlands median daily rate £492 £400 £300
% change year-on-year +23.00% +33.33% -37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £117.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.20 £117.00 -
% change year-on-year -80.17% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 32 37 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 19.39% 22.42% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 25
10th Percentile £146 £314 £290
25th Percentile £405 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -25.96% +18.18%
75th Percentile £488 £506 £700
90th Percentile £625 £600 £730
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £400 £510
% change year-on-year +6.25% -21.57% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £17.05 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £117.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -84.73% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £17.88 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.30 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -11.91% +36.46% -9.89%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Nottingham - 1 £500 - 10
Microsoft Certification
East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat