Microsoft Certification Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 75 135 123
Rank change year-on-year +60 -12 +19
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 27 10 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.79% 0.37% 0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.94% 0.91% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 28
10th Percentile £500 £191 £350
25th Percentile £525 £303 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £531 £526
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +0.95% +16.94%
75th Percentile £700 £637 £592
90th Percentile £743 £643 £596
South East median daily rate £565 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +25.56% -18.18% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
South East median hourly rate £19.97 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year +14.11% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +27 15 £630 -2.03% 13
Berkshire +36 8 £525 +165.82% 28
Oxfordshire +6 4 £500 +11.11% 12
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) IaaS
3 8 (29.63%) PaaS
3 8 (29.63%) SaaS
4 3 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Storage
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Table
5 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) VSAN
2 4 (14.81%) MPLS
2 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
2 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
2 4 (14.81%) WAN
3 3 (11.11%) BGP
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) NGFW
3 3 (11.11%) OSPF
3 3 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (7.41%) DNS
4 2 (7.41%) VLAN
4 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.70%) IP Telephony
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) SAN
5 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
General
1 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Architect
2 11 (40.74%) Technical Architect
3 10 (37.04%) Senior
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Architect
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Principal Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (11.11%) IT Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Service Desk Support
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Incident Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Incident Responder
7 2 (7.41%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Senior VMware Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
1 2 (7.41%) ADO
1 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (37.04%) PKI
3 7 (25.93%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Infrastructure as Code
1 17 (62.96%) ITIL
2 16 (59.26%) TOGAF
3 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 14 (51.85%) Containerisation
4 14 (51.85%) Continuous Delivery
4 14 (51.85%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (51.85%) Microservices
4 14 (51.85%) Zachman Framework
5 11 (40.74%) DevSecOps
6 10 (37.04%) IT Strategy
6 10 (37.04%) Matrix Organization
6 10 (37.04%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (29.63%) Use Case
8 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (25.93%) Requirements Management
9 6 (22.22%) DevOps
9 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
10 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (18.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Bicep
3 2 (7.41%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (59.26%) MCSE
2 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 14 (51.85%) SC Cleared
4 11 (40.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (18.52%) CCNP
5 5 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
7 3 (11.11%) A+ Certification
8 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (7.41%) MCSA
9 1 (3.70%) Degree
9 1 (3.70%) MCP
9 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (51.85%) NCSC
1 14 (51.85%) NIST
2 10 (37.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (40.74%) VMware NSX
3 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.70%) vSphere
4 1 (3.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) VMware
2 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
3 12 (44.44%) Cisco
4 11 (40.74%) Palo Alto
5 3 (11.11%) Citrix
6 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.70%) F5