Microsoft Certification Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 129 157
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 -22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 21 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.94% 0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.42% 3.41% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 32
10th Percentile £121 £133 £110
25th Percentile £396 £184 £139
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £225 £294
Median % change year-on-year +104.67% -23.40% -36.49%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £438
90th Percentile £678 £480 £584
England median daily rate £500 £508 £425
% change year-on-year -1.48% +19.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £18.61 £19.07 £17.48
25th Percentile £23.04 £20.31 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.11 £22.49 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +42.75% +9.65% -
75th Percentile £42.84 £24.55 £22.75
90th Percentile £48.28 £25.71 -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 868 909 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.23% 27.69% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 578 672
10th Percentile £230 £255 £210
25th Percentile £325 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 63 35
10th Percentile £13.20 £10.88 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £13.31 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.74% -5.00% +22.55%
75th Percentile £42.50 £31.91 £24.63
90th Percentile £56.75 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
East Midlands +12 14 £406 +41.54% 21
West Midlands +17 7 £573 +154.44% 36
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
1 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Network Security
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
1 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) DBA
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Designer
2 4 (19.05%) SQL DBA
3 3 (14.29%) Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (9.52%) Citrix Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Citrix Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Junior
4 2 (9.52%) Junior Desktop Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) SOAP
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
3 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) High Availability
3 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.52%) Data Management
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.52%) Security Operations
5 2 (9.52%) Threat Detection
5 2 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Time Management
5 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) X++
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Degree
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) MCITP
3 5 (23.81%) MCSE
3 5 (23.81%) MCTS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (9.52%) CISSP
5 2 (9.52%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (9.52%) MCP
6 1 (4.76%) A+ Certification
6 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (4.76%) MCDST
6 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (4.76%) OCP
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) XenApp
2 2 (9.52%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Apple
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Citrix
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) VMware