Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Microsoft Certification
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 4.86% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile £743 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £310 £513 £615
% change year-on-year -39.51% -16.67% +53.75%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 26 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 71.53% 40.00% 46.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 18 31
10th Percentile - £329 £413
25th Percentile £525 £525 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% -1.05%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £640
90th Percentile £738 £706 £660
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £73.45 - £28.70
25th Percentile £74.88 £15.22 £45.13
Median hourly rate £78.50 £16.19 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +384.87% -78.41% -
75th Percentile £80.88 £17.16 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.55 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year -32.64% +0.72% +73.75%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Worcestershire

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Malvern - 7 £600 -
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (85.71%) Change Control
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle