Microsoft Certification Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 108 118 169
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 -54
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 27 32 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 1.06% 0.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.49% 3.57% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 9
10th Percentile £249 £300 -
25th Percentile £300 £450 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £550 £135
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +307.41% -68.31%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £500
90th Percentile £649 £697 £584
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.50
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £26.75
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 773 896 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.69% 29.75% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 588 610
10th Percentile £300 £363 £298
25th Percentile £416 £443 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £689 £675
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 68 58
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.81 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.94 £25.75 £17.13
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% -0.25% +33.67%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £61.73
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.03 £81.00
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +21 19 £394 -20.25% 18
Merseyside 0 4 £175 -73.08% 6
Lancashire +4 1 £575 +10.58% 9
Cheshire -6 1 £625 +19.05% 17
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (29.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (55.56%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) ThoughtSpot
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Automotive
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) IT Support
3 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 3 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Support Officer
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Service Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 11 (40.74%) Windows Server
3 9 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (7.41%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.70%) Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) ITIL
2 8 (29.63%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) Line Management
3 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 3 (11.11%) Migration
4 3 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (7.41%) Customer Service
5 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (7.41%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.41%) PRINCE2
5 2 (7.41%) Process Improvement
5 2 (7.41%) Security Management
5 2 (7.41%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (3.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (3.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (3.70%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (3.70%) Security Operations
6 1 (3.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) MCSE
2 8 (29.63%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) CCNA
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (14.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.41%) MCITP
5 2 (7.41%) MCP
5 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.70%) GIAC
6 1 (3.70%) MCSA
6 1 (3.70%) MCTS
6 1 (3.70%) MOS
6 1 (3.70%) RHCE
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Firmware
3 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (18.52%) SCCM
3 1 (3.70%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) CA
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 2 (7.41%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) Adobe
5 1 (3.70%) Apple
5 1 (3.70%) Carbon Black
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Sophos