Microsoft Certification Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 123 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -33
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 11 19 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.57% 0.79% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.75% 2.89% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 23
10th Percentile £117 £145 £110
25th Percentile £536 £177 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £294 £325
Median % change year-on-year +109.79% -9.62% -38.10%
75th Percentile £633 £542 £468
90th Percentile £643 £688 £609
England median daily rate £500 £503 £425
% change year-on-year -0.50% +18.24% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Median hourly rate £15.65 £18.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year -15.41% -9.80% -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -8.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 630 657 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.63% 27.36% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 410 492
10th Percentile £263 £305 £286
25th Percentile £358 £413 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £461
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.82% +13.89%
75th Percentile £569 £605 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 26 17
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.25 £11.05
25th Percentile £22.16 £13.41 £13.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +9.95% +9.23%
75th Percentile £49.38 £25.64 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £61.75 £21.21
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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 25 April 2024.

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
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 25 April 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
Shropshire - 2 £117 -
Birmingham -2 1 £525 -5.62% 5
Warwickshire - 1 £713 - 4
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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
4 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
1 5 (45.45%) Network Security
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
General
1 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) SOC Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Junior
2 2 (18.18%) Junior Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (9.09%) IT Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Support Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
2 5 (45.45%) Security Posture
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Mac OS
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
3 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
3 6 (54.55%) SIEM
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
4 5 (45.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) Data Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
4 5 (45.45%) Threat Detection
4 5 (45.45%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 2 (18.18%) Time Management
6 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (9.09%) Change Management
6 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
2 6 (54.55%) CISSP
2 6 (54.55%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (54.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (18.18%) MCSE
5 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
5 1 (9.09%) MCDST
5 1 (9.09%) MCP
5 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Apple
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe