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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 158 161
Rank change year-on-year +50 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 44 40 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.46% 0.72% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.62% 1.61% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 49
10th Percentile £201 £264 £308
25th Percentile £469 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -22.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £663 £556 £594
90th Percentile £741 £590 £618
England median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +19.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £19.97 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.11% - -
England median hourly rate £17.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +6.99% +5.16% -

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 1,217 2,478 2,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.39% 44.65% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,415 1,416
10th Percentile £304 £327 £301
25th Percentile £438 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £737 £706
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 212 146
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.51 £21.50
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.32
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +0.05% +27.77%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.01 £68.44
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.53 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +40.00%

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 2 May 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 2 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
Thames Valley +48 23 £590 +31.11% 42
Buckinghamshire +23 11 £743 +18.36% 10
Berkshire +32 8 £525 +165.82% 25
Hampshire +16 6 £650 +38.67% 28
West Sussex +15 5 £500 +8.11% 2
Oxfordshire +7 4 £500 +11.11% 10
East Sussex +1 4 £700 +133.33% 4
Kent - 3 £225 - 5
Surrey +9 2 £330 -12.00% 11
Sussex - 1 £500 - 1
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 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (59.09%) Azure
2 19 (43.18%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.45%) AWS
4 8 (18.18%) PaaS
5 4 (9.09%) IaaS
5 4 (9.09%) SaaS
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.82%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Table
7 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) VSAN
2 4 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) iSCSI
2 4 (9.09%) MPLS
2 4 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.09%) WAN
3 3 (6.82%) BGP
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (6.82%) NGFW
3 3 (6.82%) OSPF
3 3 (6.82%) VPN
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.55%) DNS
4 2 (4.55%) Internet
4 2 (4.55%) VLAN
4 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.27%) LAN
5 1 (2.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.55%) Power BI
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Legal
2 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Local Government
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Architect
2 7 (15.91%) Analyst
2 7 (15.91%) Technical Architect
3 6 (13.64%) Senior
3 6 (13.64%) Senior Architect
3 6 (13.64%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (9.09%) DBA
5 4 (9.09%) Principal Architect
5 4 (9.09%) SQL DBA
5 4 (9.09%) VMware Architect
6 3 (6.82%) IT Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) IT Support
6 3 (6.82%) Service Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Service Desk Support
7 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Incident Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Security Incident Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) .NET
1 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
1 2 (4.55%) ADO
1 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (15.91%) Public Cloud
2 6 (13.64%) PKI
3 4 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.82%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) ITIL
2 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (27.27%) TOGAF
4 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 10 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (22.73%) Microservices
5 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.73%) Zachman Framework
6 9 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (20.45%) Incident Management
7 7 (15.91%) Customer Service
7 7 (15.91%) DevSecOps
7 7 (15.91%) IT Strategy
7 7 (15.91%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (15.91%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (13.64%) DevOps
8 6 (13.64%) Incident Response
9 5 (11.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.55%) Bash
3 2 (4.55%) Bicep
3 2 (4.55%) C#
3 2 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (40.91%) MCSE
2 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
3 12 (27.27%) Degree
4 11 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
6 7 (15.91%) A+ Certification
7 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
8 5 (11.36%) CCNP
8 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
9 4 (9.09%) MCP
9 4 (9.09%) MCSA
9 4 (9.09%) VCP5
9 4 (9.09%) VCP6
10 3 (6.82%) CISSP
10 3 (6.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (6.82%) ISSEP
10 3 (6.82%) SSCP
11 2 (4.55%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) NCSC
1 10 (22.73%) NIST
2 6 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.91%) VMware NSX
3 5 (11.36%) vSphere
4 4 (9.09%) NFS
4 4 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.27%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (6.82%) SCCM
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Malwarebytes
2 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 35 (79.55%) Microsoft
2 18 (40.91%) VMware
3 9 (20.45%) Cisco
4 7 (15.91%) Palo Alto
5 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
5 5 (11.36%) Splunk
6 4 (9.09%) NetApp
6 4 (9.09%) Veeam
7 3 (6.82%) Citrix
8 2 (4.55%) Dell
8 2 (4.55%) Ivanti
9 1 (2.27%) F5