Microsoft Certification Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Certification
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 108 121
Rank change year-on-year +24 +13 +24
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 27 49 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.61% 1.53% 1.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.93% 2.71% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 41
10th Percentile £200 £325 £288
25th Percentile £381 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £710 £556 £550
90th Percentile £758 £703 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% +20.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £31.50 £13.11 -
25th Percentile £31.88 £13.69 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £14.46 -
Median % change year-on-year +142.05% - -
75th Percentile £37.50 £15.23 -
90th Percentile - £15.24 -
England median hourly rate £17.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +6.99% +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 923 1,806 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.01% 56.46% 52.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,150 1,403
10th Percentile £250 £353 £388
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 196 156
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.45
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the South West

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the South West

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the South West

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the South West

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wiltshire +10 11 £625 +16.28% 2
Bristol +23 6 £500 -25.93% 8
Dorset +3 6 £525 - 2
Gloucestershire +18 4 £300 -52.94% 5
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (22.22%) Confluence
3 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (11.11%) Skype for Business
4 1 (3.70%) IBM Notes
4 1 (3.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) IaaS
2 1 (3.70%) PaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Skype
2 6 (22.22%) VPN
3 5 (18.52%) DNS
3 5 (18.52%) SAN
4 4 (14.81%) DHCP
5 3 (11.11%) VLAN
6 2 (7.41%) Firewall
6 2 (7.41%) iSCSI
6 2 (7.41%) LAN
6 2 (7.41%) WAN
7 1 (3.70%) NAS
7 1 (3.70%) Network Security
7 1 (3.70%) SSL
7 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.70%) VoIP
7 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 19 (70.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (48.15%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Legal
5 3 (11.11%) Military
6 1 (3.70%) Aviation
6 1 (3.70%) Finance
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Desktop Support
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Wintel Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Deskside Support
3 3 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (7.41%) Deskside Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Flash
1 2 (7.41%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) PKI
2 2 (7.41%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.70%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.70%) CESG
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (85.19%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 13 (48.15%) Windows 10
3 13 (48.15%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (11.11%) VMS
5 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (7.41%) Linux
7 1 (3.70%) Android
7 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
1 10 (37.04%) Critical Thinking
1 10 (37.04%) ITIL
2 9 (33.33%) Service Management
3 7 (25.93%) NsoIT
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) System Testing
4 5 (18.52%) Customer Service
5 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
5 4 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Server Management
6 3 (11.11%) IT Strategy
6 3 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (11.11%) Validation
7 2 (7.41%) Business Strategy
7 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.41%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.41%) Power Management
7 2 (7.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) VBScript
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Perl
4 1 (3.70%) Ruby
4 1 (3.70%) VB
4 1 (3.70%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (74.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (55.56%) MCSE
4 12 (44.44%) Degree
5 9 (33.33%) MCSA
6 6 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (14.81%) Master's Degree
7 4 (14.81%) MCP
8 3 (11.11%) A+ Certification
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
9 2 (7.41%) CCNA
9 2 (7.41%) CCNP
9 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (3.70%) Dell Certification
10 1 (3.70%) MCITP
10 1 (3.70%) OCA
10 1 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) JSP 440
1 1 (3.70%) NCSC
1 1 (3.70%) QA
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) Docker
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) SCCM
2 4 (14.81%) WSUS
3 3 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.41%) OPNET
4 2 (7.41%) PowerCLI
4 2 (7.41%) SCOM
5 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (96.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
3 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
4 3 (11.11%) Veeam
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco
6 1 (3.70%) Dell
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) Lotus
6 1 (3.70%) McAfee
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.70%) Symantec