Microsoft Certification Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 60 71 100
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 0.60% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.39% 3.14% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - £201
25th Percentile - £313 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -10.26% +120.66%
75th Percentile - £556 £586
90th Percentile - £568 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £438 £288
% change year-on-year -8.57% +52.17% +55.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.17 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £15.17 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 144 191 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.28% 19.12% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 118 170
10th Percentile £263 £320 £374
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £669
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - £12.53 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £12.64 £61.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -76.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - £15.17 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds 0 2 £600 +37.14% 9
Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) HR Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) HR Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Workday