Microsoft Certification Contracts 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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 6.06% - 2.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.09% - 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile £525 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.72%
75th Percentile £575 - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
West Midlands median daily rate £268 £635 £325
% change year-on-year -57.87% +95.38% -10.34%

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 44 33 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 66.67% 37.08% 48.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 36
10th Percentile £514 £489 £413
25th Percentile £525 £513 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £600
90th Percentile £900 £613 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -7.36% -5.05% +10.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +264.44% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £36.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.24% +34.26% +35.00%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Worcestershire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Worcestershire

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Worcestershire

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 25 July 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 - 3 £550 -
Kidderminster - 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Change Control
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft