Microsoft Certification Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 256 305
Rank change year-on-year +48 +49 +132
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 92 90 169
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.93% 0.59% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.33% 2.15% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 67 132
10th Percentile £258 £313 £350
25th Percentile £461 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £594 £679 £591
90th Percentile £700 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £12.05
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate - £40.31 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +41.44% -42.42%
75th Percentile - - £39.13
90th Percentile - - £45.35
UK median hourly rate £17.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +6.99% +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,761 4,188 6,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.89% 27.49% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,858 2,633 4,388
10th Percentile £352 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 266 287
10th Percentile £18.08 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.44 £43.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.74% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.70 £84.28 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

Microsoft Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Certification.

Microsoft Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft Certification over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Microsoft Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Certification.

Microsoft Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (16.30%) SharePoint
2 13 (14.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.17%) IIS
3 2 (2.17%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (66.30%) Azure
2 28 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (23.91%) AWS
4 15 (16.30%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.30%) GCP
5 10 (10.87%) IaaS
6 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.52%) OneDrive
9 5 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (5.43%) PaaS
9 5 (5.43%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.26%) GitHub
11 3 (3.26%) SaaS
12 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.78%) Firewall
2 6 (6.52%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (6.52%) Network Security
2 6 (6.52%) Skype
3 4 (4.35%) DHCP
3 4 (4.35%) DNS
3 4 (4.35%) VPN
4 3 (3.26%) VSAN
5 2 (2.17%) NAS
5 2 (2.17%) S/MIME
5 2 (2.17%) SSL
6 1 (1.09%) BGP
6 1 (1.09%) H.323
6 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.09%) MPLS
6 1 (1.09%) OSPF
6 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.09%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.09%) WAN
6 1 (1.09%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.52%) Metadata
3 5 (5.43%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.09%) Big Data
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.09%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Git
2 3 (3.26%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) NUnit
3 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.09%) Subversion
3 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.17%) Public Sector
3 24 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.13%) Finance
5 10 (10.87%) Telecoms
6 8 (8.70%) Banking
7 7 (7.61%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (6.52%) Legal
9 4 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Architect
2 15 (16.30%) Analyst
3 13 (14.13%) Senior
4 11 (11.96%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.70%) Consultant
5 8 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 7 (7.61%) Operations Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Incident Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Incident Responder
7 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 6 (6.52%) Lead
7 6 (6.52%) Security Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Security Incident Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Security Operations Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) .NET
2 3 (3.26%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.17%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.17%) HTML
3 2 (2.17%) REST
3 2 (2.17%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.17%) WCF
3 2 (2.17%) Web Services
4 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.09%) Autofac
4 1 (1.09%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.09%) HTML5
4 1 (1.09%) jQuery
4 1 (1.09%) Middleware
4 1 (1.09%) Node.js
4 1 (1.09%) Spring
4 1 (1.09%) StructureMap
4 1 (1.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) PKI
2 6 (6.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.43%) NHS
4 4 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.26%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Life Science
7 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.17%) Windows
2 16 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.87%) Windows 10
4 6 (6.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.17%) Linux
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.09%) VMS
6 1 (1.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.17%) Computer Science
2 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.74%) Agile
4 18 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (16.30%) DevOps
6 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 14 (15.22%) Incident Response
7 12 (13.04%) Analytics
7 12 (13.04%) Project Management
8 11 (11.96%) ITIL
8 11 (11.96%) Security Operations
9 10 (10.87%) Data Modelling
9 10 (10.87%) SIEM
10 9 (9.78%) Data Analytics
10 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.78%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (7.61%) Critical Thinking
12 7 (7.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.70%) Python
2 8 (8.70%) SQL
3 7 (7.61%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (4.35%) C#
4 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.26%) Java
6 2 (2.17%) Bash
7 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (47.83%) Degree
2 39 (42.39%) Azure Certification
3 27 (29.35%) SC Cleared
3 27 (29.35%) Security Cleared
4 22 (23.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (20.65%) AWS Certification
6 14 (15.22%) MCSE
7 12 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (11.96%) Master's Degree
9 5 (5.43%) MCSA
10 4 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (2.17%) CCNP
12 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (2.17%) MCP
13 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (1.09%) OCA
13 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.96%) QA
2 5 (5.43%) NIST
3 3 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.26%) NCSC
4 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.09%) HL7
4 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (29.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.43%) Docker
3 5 (5.43%) vSphere
4 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.52%) SCCM
3 6 (6.52%) Terraform
4 4 (4.35%) WSUS
5 2 (2.17%) OPNET
6 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.09%) Ansible
6 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.09%) SCOM
6 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (94.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.48%) Google
3 11 (11.96%) VMware
4 6 (6.52%) Databricks
5 5 (5.43%) Cisco
5 5 (5.43%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle
7 2 (2.17%) Veeam
8 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.09%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.09%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.09%) Remedy
8 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.09%) Sybase
8 1 (1.09%) Tanium