Microsoft Certification Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 164 174
Rank change year-on-year +41 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 39 38 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.20% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.00% 1.49% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 36
10th Percentile £200 £300 £317
25th Percentile £381 £338 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% -12.95% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £592
90th Percentile - £556 £603
England median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.30% -4.76% +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,301 2,546 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.03% 44.53% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 1,484 1,338
10th Percentile £262 £352 £305
25th Percentile £406 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £620
90th Percentile £663 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 222 127
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.80 £19.10
25th Percentile £24.78 £27.55 £42.50
Median hourly rate £46.90 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.21 £71.80
90th Percentile £79.16 £87.46 £75.67
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.99%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Hampshire +26 16 £650 +20.93% 50
Thames Valley +34 15 £500 +5.82% 93
Berkshire +30 9 £625 +51.52% 55
Oxfordshire +5 5 £500 +63.93% 15
Kent - 3 £225 - 23
Surrey +20 2 £450 +2.86% 37
West Sussex +6 2 £202 -56.32% 18
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £475 -4.52% 25
East Sussex -2 1 - - 11
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (12.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.26%) AWS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure AKS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Storage
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Table
6 3 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 3 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (5.13%) GCP
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
1 13 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 3 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) Internet
4 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.56%) IP Telephony
4 1 (2.56%) LAN
4 1 (2.56%) MPLS
4 1 (2.56%) NAS
4 1 (2.56%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.56%) SAN
4 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Skype
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
4 1 (2.56%) VSAN
4 1 (2.56%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Power BI
2 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Architect
2 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 13 (33.33%) VMware Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) IT Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Support
5 3 (7.69%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Service Desk Support
5 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (5.13%) IT Technician
6 2 (5.13%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
1 3 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 3 (7.69%) ADO
1 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.56%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.56%) iPad
2 1 (2.56%) iPhone
2 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (58.97%) Windows
2 13 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (12.82%) Mac OS
4 3 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.64%) Edge Virtualization
2 10 (25.64%) ITIL
2 10 (25.64%) Performance Analysis
3 9 (23.08%) Incident Management
4 7 (17.95%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.82%) Analytics
7 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.26%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (10.26%) DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.26%) User Experience
8 3 (7.69%) Business Strategy
8 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
8 3 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Bash
2 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.26%) Bicep
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) MCSE
3 12 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 12 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (28.21%) VCP5
4 11 (28.21%) VCP6
5 8 (20.51%) A+ Certification
5 8 (20.51%) Degree
6 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
7 5 (12.82%) MCSA
8 4 (10.26%) MCP
9 3 (7.69%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
10 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
11 1 (2.56%) CCNA
11 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (38.46%) vSphere
3 13 (33.33%) NFS
3 13 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) SCCM
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Malwarebytes
5 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.56%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (48.72%) VMware
3 14 (35.90%) Splunk
4 13 (33.33%) NetApp
4 13 (33.33%) Veeam
5 7 (17.95%) Citrix
6 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.13%) Cisco
7 2 (5.13%) Dell
7 2 (5.13%) Ivanti
8 1 (2.56%) F5