Microsoft Certification Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 104 113 149
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 -29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 7 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.02% 2.73% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 24
10th Percentile £117 £150 £109
25th Percentile £215 £184 £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +76.15% - -29.73%
75th Percentile £635 £472 £480
90th Percentile £677 £585 £581
England median daily rate £500 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £15.65 £18.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year -15.41% -9.80% -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 684 587 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.50% 26.53% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 355 506
10th Percentile £298 £313 £266
25th Percentile £363 £421 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £563
90th Percentile £693 £700 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 27 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.60 £11.10
25th Percentile £21.81 £13.31 £13.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +37.93% -9.38%
75th Percentile £46.88 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £20.86
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Shropshire - 3 £117 -
Warwickshire -3 1 £713 +119.23% 5
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) OneDrive
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Junior
1 2 (28.57%) Junior Desktop Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (14.29%) IT Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Support Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) Database Security
4 1 (14.29%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) MCSE
4 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
4 1 (14.29%) MCDST
4 1 (14.29%) MCP
4 1 (14.29%) OCP
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Apple
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) VMware