Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in West London

Microsoft Certification
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.39% - 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.85% - 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £308 - £128
25th Percentile £375 - £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £225
75th Percentile £469 - £238
90th Percentile £503 - -
London median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -77.26% +220.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 104 48 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 36.11% 20.60% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 32 92
10th Percentile £204 £172 £272
25th Percentile £225 £323 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £573
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -21.40% +14.50%
75th Percentile £438 £600 £645
90th Percentile £504 £650 £838
London median daily rate £538 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 7
10th Percentile £25.03 £56.80 £39.75
25th Percentile - £64.00 £53.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £71.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.83% +10.00% +116.67%
75th Percentile - £81.25 £81.00
90th Percentile £26.06 £92.50 £90.00
London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -21.30% +22.42%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in West London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in West London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Hounslow - 1 £275 - 4
Hillingdon - 1 £450 - 8
Richmond upon Thames - 1 £425 - 7
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CCTV
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) VMware