Microsoft Certification Contracts in London

Microsoft Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 378 432
Rank change year-on-year +102 +54 -51
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 120 112 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 2.07% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 86 122
10th Percentile £183 £234 £183
25th Percentile £284 £427 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.82%
75th Percentile £575 £697 £538
90th Percentile £720 £743 £636
England median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £9.45 -
25th Percentile - £11.63 £24.69
Median hourly rate - £16.50 £25.09
Median % change year-on-year - -34.22% -58.19%
75th Percentile - £22.63 £25.48
90th Percentile - £25.55 -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,131 5,408 6,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.49% 21.49% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,831 3,715 4,752
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £656
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 84 139
10th Percentile £15.19 £19.58 £24.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.88 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £53.25 £43.24
Median % change year-on-year -52.11% +23.15% +15.31%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.63 £50.74
90th Percentile £68.15 £87.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -22.73% +32.53% +20.39%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in London

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +36 15 £575 -4.17% 17
West London +19 2 £450 +12.50% 14
South London +9 2 £368 +40.00% 13
North London +3 2 £250 - 7
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (15.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 19 (15.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.83%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (52.50%) Azure
2 45 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (14.17%) Power Platform
5 16 (13.33%) AWS
6 15 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 13 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.67%) WhatsApp
9 7 (5.83%) GCP
10 6 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.00%) PowerApps
11 5 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (4.17%) GitHub
11 5 (4.17%) IaaS
11 5 (4.17%) OneDrive
12 4 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.33%) DNS
2 15 (12.50%) DHCP
3 12 (10.00%) Firewall
4 6 (5.00%) LAN
4 6 (5.00%) WAN
5 5 (4.17%) Unified Communications
5 5 (4.17%) VPN
5 5 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.33%) NAS
7 3 (2.50%) NetScaler
7 3 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.50%) VoIP
8 2 (1.67%) CTI
8 2 (1.67%) SAN
8 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.83%) Internet
9 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.83%) MPLS
9 1 (0.83%) Network Security
9 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.33%) Power BI
3 8 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.17%) Big Data
4 5 (4.17%) MySQL
4 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (2.50%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.50%) Spark SQL
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.83%) Finance
3 17 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.67%) Banking
5 11 (9.17%) Retail
6 6 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Marketing
7 5 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.50%) Advertising
8 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.50%) Local Government
9 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.67%) Legal
9 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) French Language
10 1 (0.83%) Publishing
10 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.83%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (20.00%) Architect
2 18 (15.00%) Consultant
3 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 9 (7.50%) Functional Consultant
6 9 (7.50%) Senior
7 8 (6.67%) Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) IT Support
7 8 (6.67%) Platform Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Power Platform Architect
8 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Desktop Support
10 5 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.17%) Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior Wintel Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.17%) JSON
1 5 (4.17%) RESTful
1 5 (4.17%) XML
2 4 (3.33%) SOAP
2 4 (3.33%) SPFx
2 4 (3.33%) Web Services
3 3 (2.50%) LDAP
3 3 (2.50%) PySpark
3 3 (2.50%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (1.67%) .NET
4 2 (1.67%) Middleware
5 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.83%) OAuth
5 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) PKI
2 10 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.00%) Clustering
3 6 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 5 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.50%) NHS
6 3 (2.50%) Replication
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.67%) iPhone
7 2 (1.67%) IVR
8 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.33%) Windows
2 24 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.17%) Mac OS
4 5 (4.17%) Windows 7
5 4 (3.33%) Linux
5 4 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.67%) VMS
7 2 (1.67%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (20.83%) ITIL
3 20 (16.67%) Agile
4 17 (14.17%) DevOps
5 16 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 16 (13.33%) Migration
6 15 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 12 (10.00%) Project Planning
9 11 (9.17%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
11 9 (7.50%) Change Management
11 9 (7.50%) GAP Analysis
12 8 (6.67%) Project Management
12 8 (6.67%) Task Automation
13 7 (5.83%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (5.83%) High Availability
13 7 (5.83%) Translating Business Requirements
14 6 (5.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.83%) SQL
2 17 (14.17%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.33%) C#
3 4 (3.33%) Python
4 3 (2.50%) Scala
5 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) Bicep
6 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (27.50%) Degree
2 20 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 14 (11.67%) MCSA
4 13 (10.83%) MCSE
5 12 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 11 (9.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
7 10 (8.33%) A+ Certification
7 10 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (7.50%) AWS Certification
9 8 (6.67%) CCNA
9 8 (6.67%) MCITP
10 7 (5.83%) MCP
11 6 (5.00%) CCNP
11 6 (5.00%) CISSP
12 5 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.50%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (2.50%) MCTS
13 3 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.50%) GDPR
1 3 (2.50%) HIPAA
1 3 (2.50%) NIST
1 3 (2.50%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (31.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.50%) vSphere
3 5 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.50%) XenApp
4 3 (2.50%) XenDesktop
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.83%) Docker
6 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) SCOM
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.00%) SCCM
4 4 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.67%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.67%) Terraform
7 1 (0.83%) Nagios
7 1 (0.83%) Nessus
7 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.83%) WSUS
7 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (20.83%) VMware
3 9 (7.50%) Cisco
3 9 (7.50%) Dell
4 6 (5.00%) Okta
5 5 (4.17%) Databricks
5 5 (4.17%) Google
6 4 (3.33%) Aruba
6 4 (3.33%) Citrix
6 4 (3.33%) Juniper
6 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.50%) Apple
7 3 (2.50%) Commvault
7 3 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.50%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.67%) Avaya
8 2 (1.67%) CA
8 2 (1.67%) Genesys
8 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.67%) Veeam