Microsoft Certification Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 161 183
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -32
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 36 41 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.74% 0.75% 0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.07% 3.10% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 55
10th Percentile £221 £107 £138
25th Percentile £300 £386 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £538 £237
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +127.27% -44.35%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £544
90th Percentile £641 £693 £590
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £15.28 - £16.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.25 £17.20
Median hourly rate £16.34 £17.50 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -28.35% +39.57%
75th Percentile £17.86 £18.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £18.39 - £52.75
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,172 1,324 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.19% 24.33% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 908 1,037
10th Percentile £302 £325 £206
25th Percentile £413 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £591
90th Percentile £694 £700 £671
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 75 70
10th Percentile £10.95 £18.95 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £25.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% +29.03% +40.91%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £57.53
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.95 £75.60
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +10 27 £394 -28.41% 49
North East +13 5 £475 +331.82% 14
Yorkshire +9 4 £475 +318.50% 35
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (44.44%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (8.33%) DHCP
2 3 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (5.56%) SAN
4 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.78%) VLAN
4 1 (2.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) ThoughtSpot
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Automotive
6 1 (2.78%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Senior
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) IT Support
3 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Server Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Service Desk Support
4 3 (8.33%) Support Officer
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Support
5 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.78%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.78%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Windows
2 16 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.78%) Windows 10
4 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.56%) Linux
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.56%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.78%) Unix
6 1 (2.78%) VMS
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) ITIL
2 8 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) Service Management
5 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (11.11%) Line Management
5 4 (11.11%) Project Management
5 4 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 3 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 3 (8.33%) Data Encryption
6 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (8.33%) Migration
6 3 (8.33%) Process Improvement
6 3 (8.33%) Server Patching
7 2 (5.56%) Change Management
7 2 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (5.56%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2
7 2 (5.56%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) MCSE
2 10 (27.78%) Degree
3 5 (13.89%) CCNA
3 5 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (13.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.33%) MCP
5 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) MCITP
6 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.78%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.78%) GIAC
7 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.78%) MCSA
7 1 (2.78%) MCTS
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 1 (2.78%) MOS
7 1 (2.78%) RHCE
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.78%) Docker
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (2.78%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (97.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) VMware
3 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.33%) CA
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco
5 2 (5.56%) Dell
6 1 (2.78%) Adobe
6 1 (2.78%) Apple
6 1 (2.78%) Carbon Black
6 1 (2.78%) Citrix
6 1 (2.78%) HP
6 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.78%) Sophos