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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 +29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 20 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.47% 0.37% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.72% 1.13% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 5
10th Percentile £155 £117 £141
25th Percentile £161 £240 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £224 £625 £225
Median % change year-on-year -64.16% +177.78% -33.33%
75th Percentile £366 £635 £369
90th Percentile £525 £677 £508
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.80 - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £15.65 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.80% -15.41% -9.80%
75th Percentile £30.99 - £18.75
90th Percentile £37.58 - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +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 424 618 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.13% 32.32% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 389 381
10th Percentile £150 £275 £300
25th Percentile £285 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% -11.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £613
90th Percentile £700 £682 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 28
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £11.70
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.08 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +50.00% +9.95%
75th Percentile £40.79 £43.44 £27.54
90th Percentile £59.30 £58.75 £60.05
England median hourly rate £40.84 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +2.10% -23.81% +32.91%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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
Coventry - 6 £189 - 3
Warwickshire +1 4 £425 -40.35% 4
Birmingham - 4 £525 - 20
Shropshire -1 3 - - 2
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%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
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%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
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 16 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Military
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Rollout Engineer
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%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (5.00%) Head of IT Security
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Security
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
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%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) ITIL
2 8 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Data Security
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.00%) Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) Database Security
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
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%) Conceptual Models
7 1 (5.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
7 1 (5.00%) Privileged Access Management
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 9 (45.00%) 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 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) Okta
4 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam