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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 166 164
Rank change year-on-year +52 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 32 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 0.68% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.74% 1.52% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 41
10th Percentile £191 £300 £256
25th Percentile £223 £350 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.49% -12.50% +21.55%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £592
90th Percentile - £616 £606
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +21.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £19.97 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.11% - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +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 1,167 2,507 2,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 39.79% 44.66% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 1,451 1,334
10th Percentile £263 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £619
90th Percentile £675 £735 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 218 136
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.74 £19.99
25th Percentile £28.00 £28.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £71.25 £69.69 £72.77
90th Percentile £78.36 £87.14 £76.37
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +37.47%

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 30 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 30 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 +45 17 £513 -3.53% 150
Berkshire +35 9 £328 +19.09% 82
Hampshire +20 8 £650 +20.93% 62
Buckinghamshire +11 4 £615 -2.04% 44
Oxfordshire +4 4 £500 +11.11% 26
Kent - 3 £225 - 31
West Sussex +13 2 £202 -56.32% 19
Surrey +15 1 £450 +20.00% 34
East Sussex +1 1 - - 15
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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
5 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Storage
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Table
5 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) OneDrive
5 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (18.75%) iSCSI
2 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) MPLS
2 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.50%) VSAN
2 4 (12.50%) WAN
3 3 (9.38%) BGP
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (9.38%) NGFW
3 3 (9.38%) OSPF
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
3 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (6.25%) DNS
4 2 (6.25%) Internet
4 2 (6.25%) VLAN
5 1 (3.13%) IP Telephony
5 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Local Government
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Architect
2 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) VMware Architect
4 4 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) IT Support
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Service Desk Support
5 3 (9.38%) Site Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
1 3 (9.38%) ADO
1 3 (9.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) PKI
2 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (31.25%) Incident Management
2 10 (31.25%) ITIL
3 7 (21.88%) Customer Service
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (18.75%) Edge Virtualization
4 6 (18.75%) Performance Analysis
5 5 (15.63%) TOGAF
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 4 (12.50%) Identity Management
7 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
7 3 (9.38%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Microservices
7 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.38%) Bash
3 3 (9.38%) Bicep
3 3 (9.38%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) MCSE
2 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
3 10 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (25.00%) A+ Certification
5 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
5 6 (18.75%) VCP5
5 6 (18.75%) VCP6
6 5 (15.63%) Degree
6 5 (15.63%) MCSA
7 4 (12.50%) MCP
7 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
8 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (3.13%) CCNA
10 1 (3.13%) CCNP
10 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (21.88%) vSphere
4 6 (18.75%) NFS
4 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Grafana
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
1 3 (9.38%) SCCM
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Malwarebytes
3 1 (3.13%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) VMware
3 7 (21.88%) Splunk
4 6 (18.75%) Cisco
4 6 (18.75%) NetApp
4 6 (18.75%) Veeam
5 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (12.50%) Citrix
6 4 (12.50%) Palo Alto
7 2 (6.25%) Dell
7 2 (6.25%) Ivanti
8 1 (3.13%) F5