Microsoft Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 357 399
Rank change year-on-year +92 +42 -56
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 320 303 454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.64% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.79% 2.36% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 231 304
10th Percentile £183 £175 £155
25th Percentile £322 £372 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £566 £592 £538
90th Percentile £675 £700 £636
UK median daily rate £484 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -6.97% +15.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 15 40
10th Percentile £13.69 - -
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £18.75 £20.57
90th Percentile - £23.39 £25.81
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -11.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,463 12,852 15,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.32% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 8,593 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 655 691
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +93 119 £500 -3.85% 123
East of England +33 55 £135 -49.06% 27
South West +4 45 £538 +2.38% 39
South East +6 37 £456 -17.05% 51
North of England +12 36 £423 -21.40% 95
North West +10 27 £394 -28.41% 49
Midlands +11 21 £461 +41.69% 46
East Midlands +10 14 £406 +41.54% 18
West Midlands +9 7 £573 +76.15% 28
North East +13 5 £475 +331.82% 14
Yorkshire +9 4 £475 +318.50% 34
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 54 (16.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (11.56%) SharePoint
3 18 (5.63%) Confluence
4 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 28 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Eikon
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 126 (39.38%) Microsoft 365
2 103 (32.19%) Azure
3 31 (9.69%) Dynamics 365
4 27 (8.44%) AWS
4 27 (8.44%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.19%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.75%) GCP
8 11 (3.44%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.13%) IaaS
10 8 (2.50%) OneDrive
10 8 (2.50%) WhatsApp
11 7 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.19%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 49 (15.31%) Wi-Fi
2 47 (14.69%) DNS
3 40 (12.50%) DHCP
4 25 (7.81%) Firewall
5 16 (5.00%) VPN
6 15 (4.69%) SAN
7 13 (4.06%) LAN
7 13 (4.06%) TCP/IP
8 11 (3.44%) VoIP
9 10 (3.13%) NAS
9 10 (3.13%) WAN
10 7 (2.19%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (2.19%) VLAN
10 7 (2.19%) Wireless
11 5 (1.56%) iSCSI
11 5 (1.56%) Network Security
11 5 (1.56%) Unified Communications
12 4 (1.25%) CTI
12 4 (1.25%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.44%) Power BI
3 10 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.88%) Big Data
4 6 (1.88%) MySQL
5 5 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.94%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (0.94%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.63%) Metadata
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.31%) Tableau
9 1 (0.31%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 22 (6.88%) JIRA
2 6 (1.88%) Git
3 1 (0.31%) Appium
3 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.31%) MSI
3 1 (0.31%) Selenium
3 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (17.50%) Finance
4 39 (12.19%) Retail
5 35 (10.94%) Public Sector
6 23 (7.19%) Banking
7 18 (5.63%) Military
8 14 (4.38%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.13%) Marketing
9 10 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.19%) Police
11 5 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Legal
12 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.94%) Advertising
13 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.94%) Front Office
13 3 (0.94%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 57 (17.81%) Analyst
2 49 (15.31%) Service Analyst
3 48 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 33 (10.31%) Architect
5 31 (9.69%) Senior
6 30 (9.38%) Consultant
6 30 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (6.88%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.94%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 19 (5.94%) Test Engineer
9 16 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (5.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 15 (4.69%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 15 (4.69%) Desktop Engineer
11 14 (4.38%) IT Support
12 13 (4.06%) DBA
13 12 (3.75%) Functional Consultant
13 12 (3.75%) Lead
14 11 (3.44%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.19%) Web Services
2 6 (1.88%) JSON
2 6 (1.88%) XML
3 5 (1.56%) .NET
3 5 (1.56%) Middleware
3 5 (1.56%) RESTful
3 5 (1.56%) SOAP
4 4 (1.25%) SPFx
5 3 (0.94%) LDAP
5 3 (0.94%) PySpark
5 3 (0.94%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.63%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.63%) OAuth
6 2 (0.63%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.63%) YAML
7 1 (0.31%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.31%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.31%) React
7 1 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.81%) PKI
2 16 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.06%) Clustering
3 13 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.19%) NHS
5 7 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.56%) iPhone
6 5 (1.56%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.56%) Replication
7 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.25%) IVR
7 4 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.94%) Grid Computing
8 3 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.63%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 142 (44.38%) Windows
2 80 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 42 (13.13%) Windows 10
4 28 (8.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (5.63%) Linux
6 10 (3.13%) Mac OS
6 10 (3.13%) Windows 7
7 8 (2.50%) Unix
8 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.56%) Windows 8
10 4 (1.25%) VMS
10 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.63%) CentOS
13 1 (0.31%) Android
13 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (33.75%) ITIL
2 71 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (21.25%) Customer Service
4 48 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 42 (13.13%) Agile
6 32 (10.00%) Migration
7 31 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (9.06%) Computer Science
9 28 (8.75%) Service Delivery
10 24 (7.50%) Data Modelling
11 23 (7.19%) DevOps
12 22 (6.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (6.56%) Service Management
14 20 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
15 19 (5.94%) Change Management
15 19 (5.94%) Regression Testing
15 19 (5.94%) Test Scripting
16 17 (5.31%) High Availability
16 17 (5.31%) Project Management
17 16 (5.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.25%) SQL
2 47 (14.69%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.50%) Python
4 6 (1.88%) C#
5 4 (1.25%) Bash
5 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.94%) Scala
6 3 (0.94%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.63%) Bicep
7 2 (0.63%) C++
7 2 (0.63%) X++
8 1 (0.31%) Java
8 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (25.94%) MCSA
2 80 (25.00%) Degree
3 79 (24.69%) Security Cleared
4 72 (22.50%) MCSE
5 67 (20.94%) SC Cleared
6 61 (19.06%) A+ Certification
7 36 (11.25%) Azure Certification
8 33 (10.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 27 (8.44%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (8.13%) CCNA
11 24 (7.50%) MCP
12 18 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (4.69%) MCITP
14 13 (4.06%) MCTS
15 12 (3.75%) AWS Certification
16 9 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (2.81%) CCNP
16 9 (2.81%) DV Cleared
17 8 (2.50%) CISSP
17 8 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.75%) SLA
2 7 (2.19%) JSP 440
3 6 (1.88%) GDPR
3 6 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.94%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.94%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 125 (39.06%) Active Directory
2 49 (15.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.94%) vSphere
4 11 (3.44%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.56%) BitLocker
6 5 (1.56%) Firmware
6 5 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.25%) XenApp
7 4 (1.25%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.94%) Docker
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.31%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (7.81%) SCCM
2 21 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.81%) SCOM
4 7 (2.19%) OPNET
5 6 (1.88%) WSUS
6 5 (1.56%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.25%) Terraform
8 3 (0.94%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.94%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.63%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.31%) Grafana
10 1 (0.31%) Nagios
10 1 (0.31%) Nessus
10 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 277 (86.56%) Microsoft
2 68 (21.25%) VMware
3 51 (15.94%) ServiceNow
4 48 (15.00%) Citrix
5 17 (5.31%) Cisco
6 12 (3.75%) Dell
7 9 (2.81%) Google
8 8 (2.50%) Apple
9 7 (2.19%) CA
10 6 (1.88%) Databricks
10 6 (1.88%) Okta
11 4 (1.25%) Aruba
11 4 (1.25%) Avaya
11 4 (1.25%) Genesys
11 4 (1.25%) HP
11 4 (1.25%) Juniper
12 3 (0.94%) Commvault
12 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.94%) Oracle
12 3 (0.94%) Red Hat