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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 40 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.82% 0.69% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.90% 2.94% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £428 - £136
25th Percentile £450 - £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £254
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +77.51% -32.40%
75th Percentile £550 - £327
90th Percentile £552 - £371
London median daily rate £500 £480 £538
% change year-on-year +4.17% -10.70% +7.50%
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 £18.84 - £30.00

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 102 68 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 37.23% 23.37% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 44 116
10th Percentile £204 £230 £354
25th Percentile £358 £350 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% -24.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £450 £553 £700
90th Percentile £523 £650 £856
London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 7
10th Percentile £21.67 £18.13 £42.00
25th Percentile £25.12 £35.07 £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.27% -15.38% +153.78%
75th Percentile - £71.50 £81.00
90th Percentile £27.89 £85.00 £90.00
London median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £53.25
% change year-on-year -24.93% -37.09% +21.22%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification 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 20 September 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 20 September 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
Wembley - 2 £552 -
Hillingdon - 1 £450 - 9
Richmond upon Thames - 1 £425 - 5
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (40.00%) Autofac
1 2 (40.00%) Dapper ORM
1 2 (40.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) StructureMap
1 2 (40.00%) WCF
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) BDD
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) Data Design
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) OOP
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) MCPD
1 2 (40.00%) MCSD
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) VMware