Microsoft Certification Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Certification
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 165 173
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -43
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 38 51 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.91% 1.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.57% 2.47% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 56
10th Percentile £300 £252 £206
25th Percentile £325 £446 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £546 £433
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +26.30% -3.35%
75th Percentile £556 £592 £553
90th Percentile £619 £609 £656
England median daily rate £500 £510 £425
% change year-on-year -1.96% +20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.21
25th Percentile £16.25 - £15.84
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £18.88
75th Percentile £18.75 - £21.59
90th Percentile - - £23.04
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,427 2,065 2,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.37% 36.70% 31.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,350 1,568
10th Percentile £329 £300 £313
25th Percentile £440 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 140 84
10th Percentile £17.38 £20.47 £18.58
25th Percentile £25.70 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £58.59 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +32.48% +9.20%
75th Percentile £66.94 £69.06 £53.81
90th Percentile £85.65 £75.08 £66.91
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +2.92%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 -6 17 £538 -2.27% 17
Thames Valley -8 10 £531 +0.95% 17
Surrey +20 7 £375 - 1
Buckinghamshire +19 6 £628 +24.31% 9
Oxfordshire +7 3 £450 +20.00% 3
West Sussex - 3 £463 - 3
Berkshire -15 1 £275 -50.67% 5
East Sussex - 1 £300 - 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 16 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (26.32%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (39.47%) DHCP
2 14 (36.84%) DNS
3 8 (21.05%) TCP/IP
4 5 (13.16%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (13.16%) Firewall
4 5 (13.16%) iSCSI
4 5 (13.16%) SAN
4 5 (13.16%) VPN
5 4 (10.53%) NAS
5 4 (10.53%) SSL
5 4 (10.53%) VLAN
5 4 (10.53%) VoIP
6 1 (2.63%) LAN
6 1 (2.63%) MPLS
6 1 (2.63%) Network Security
6 1 (2.63%) WAN
6 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Appium
2 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 14 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Military
4 3 (7.89%) Front Office
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Test Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Integration Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) Support Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Architect
6 4 (10.53%) IT Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) IT Support
7 3 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (5.26%) Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Help Desk Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) .NET
2 1 (2.63%) CSS
2 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) PKI
2 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) iPhone
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (63.16%) Windows
2 12 (31.58%) Windows Server
3 10 (26.32%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (18.42%) Linux
4 7 (18.42%) Unix
4 7 (18.42%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) Regression Testing
2 11 (28.95%) Test Scripting
3 10 (26.32%) Critical Thinking
3 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.16%) Change Management
6 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (13.16%) ITIL
6 5 (13.16%) Patch Management
6 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Service Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (10.53%) DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (10.53%) Security Management
7 4 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 3 (7.89%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) PowerShell
2 10 (26.32%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) VB.NET
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) MCSE
2 14 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (36.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (28.95%) MCSA
3 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
4 8 (21.05%) Degree
5 7 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
6 4 (10.53%) CCNA
6 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (10.53%) MCTS
7 3 (7.89%) A+ Certification
7 3 (7.89%) CCNP
8 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
8 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.63%) CEH
9 1 (2.63%) CISSP
9 1 (2.63%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) SLA
2 3 (7.89%) ISO 9001
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (7.89%) NCSC
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (55.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (52.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (18.42%) vSphere
4 5 (13.16%) Hyper-V
5 4 (10.53%) Firmware
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.63%) BitLocker
7 1 (2.63%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) SCCM
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (7.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (81.58%) Microsoft
2 24 (63.16%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Apple
3 2 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) Qualys