Microsoft Certification Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 77 100 121
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 +29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 20 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 0.56% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.82% 1.72% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 5
10th Percentile £160 £117 £141
25th Percentile £186 £536 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £224 £616 £225
Median % change year-on-year -63.65% +173.89% -30.77%
75th Percentile £366 £633 £369
90th Percentile £525 £643 £508
England median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% +20.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £18.95 - -
25th Percentile £19.63 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £24.50 £15.65 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.55% -15.41% -9.80%
75th Percentile £32.24 - £18.75
90th Percentile £38.08 - -
England median hourly rate £17.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +6.99% +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 415 641 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.86% 32.92% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 406 394
10th Percentile £150 £269 £313
25th Percentile £293 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £450 £528
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 27
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £11.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.16 £13.31
Median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%
75th Percentile £41.97 £49.38 £24.16
90th Percentile £59.40 £58.75 £60.90
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Birmingham +22 6 £375 -28.67% 8
Coventry - 5 £218 - 1
Warwickshire +6 4 £425 -40.35% 3
Shropshire -2 3 - -
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Military
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Responder
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Rollout Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Digital
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Digital Transformation
4 1 (5.00%) Head of IT Security
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Security
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Data Security
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (10.00%) Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) Database Security
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (10.00%) Time Management
7 1 (5.00%) Analytical Modelling
7 1 (5.00%) Digital Strategy
7 1 (5.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) MCSE
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 2 (10.00%) OCP
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
6 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.00%) CISSP
6 1 (5.00%) CITP
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) MCP
6 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Apple
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) Okta
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds