Hire proven Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) professionals in Germany, matched in minutes from 15,000 CVs with the power of AI.
MCT holders teach Microsoft technologies with clarity, structure, and confidence. They can lead classroom training, live virtual sessions, and role-based enablement for teams that need fast skills transfer. Get matched with vetted freelancers who hold the Microsoft Certified Trainer credential.
About the certification
What MCT means
Microsoft Certified Trainer, often shortened to MCT, is Microsoft’s credential for professionals who teach Microsoft technologies and methods. It is not a product certification. It shows that a trainer can explain complex topics clearly, guide learners through hands-on work, and deliver structured instruction that fits a technical audience.
What it validates
- Strong command of Microsoft solutions and learning content
- Clear delivery in classrooms, workshops, and online sessions
- Ability to adapt training to business users, IT staff, and technical teams
- Experience with practical exercises, demos, and learner support
- Understanding of how to turn product knowledge into effective teaching
Typical holder profile
MCTs are usually consultants, trainers, architects, engineers, or subject matter experts who teach as part of their work. Many have deep experience with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, data, security, or developer topics. In Germany, companies often look for MCT freelancers when they need training in English or German for mixed teams, internal rollout projects, or remote delivery across locations.
Knowledge areas behind the credential
- Microsoft product and platform knowledge
- Adult learning and presentation methods
- Training design and lesson flow
- Lab-based delivery and practical assessment
- Communication, moderation, and learner engagement
What it signals to companies
A freelancer with the MCT credential is a strong choice when you need more than product knowledge. The person should be able to teach, not just talk about technology. That matters for onboarding, adoption projects, partner enablement, certification prep, and change programs where teams must learn fast and apply what they learned right away.
Where it matters most
MCT professionals are useful in projects tied to Microsoft cloud adoption, workplace transformation, data platforms, security awareness, and developer training. They are also a good fit for train-the-trainer work, sales enablement, and customer workshops. For companies in Germany, this is especially relevant when training must be precise, well structured, and delivered to distributed teams.
Meet FRATCH Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
Christian Fritsch
Architecture Management
Last position:
Architecture Management at Agency
Expert for the agency's architecture management area
Support for standardizing the agency's IT landscape
Further development of architecture management
Shaping the agency's business architecture
Restructuring, managing and maintaining all IT assets
Support for creating a unified software asset management and CMDB
Creation of a unified document management (e-file)
Transition of documents into a central DMS structure
Link between architecture management and the internal department's business process management
Support in drafting strategic and tactical development plans
Organizing communication with key stakeholders
Support in conception, organization and coordination of the architecture office to be built
Guidance and consulting throughout the entire architecture management process
Consulting the agency's divisions on architectural topics and their framework conditions
MS Office, Windows 10, VBA
ITIL, TOGAF, PowerBI, Kanban, Scrum
In-house government tools
Open Touch Conversation, Webex, Wire, BDBOS
MS SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence
ARIS, ArchiMate, BPMN
Alexander Bromberg
Senior Data Engineer
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer at RWE AG
Architected and maintained data products for renewable energy operations, covering wind turbine, grid-meter, and weather data. Built scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Databricks using Delta Lake (bronze/silver/gold layers) and processed data in various formats, including structured and semi-structured data. Contributed to a data quality framework supporting table and column documentation, outlier detection, and completeness metrics across all datasets within a data product. In addition, implemented a DORA KPI Databricks dashboard used across all data products. Optimized CI/CD processes in Azure DevOps to streamline deployment across development, test, and production environments.
Technology stack: Azure Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Azure Data Lake, APIs, Dremio, Azure DevOps, YAML, Git, Databricks Workflows, Application Insights, Terraform, OpenAI API, Codex, LLM-assisted workflows
Markus Halbedel
Senior IT-Infrastructure, Cloud & Security Consultant
Last position:
Senior M365 Consultant at BITMARCK GmbH
Developing concepts for the M365 implementation, especially for tenants, Entra ID, Entra Connect, and Exchange Online, following BAS standards (mandatory baseline security requirements) in the "M365 Concept" project, aiming to apply the concepts to Bitmarck's M365 environments and hand them over to the client.
- Conducting an as-is analysis of existing M365 environments, on-premise setups, and BAS standards.
- Creating concepts for tenants, Entra ID, Entra Connect, and Exchange Online according to BAS standards
- Designing and implementing an automated solution to create standardized M365 tenants based on Microsoft M365 DSC (Desired State Configuration)
- Applying the concepts to the M365 environments
- Preparing detailed technical documentation
Mark Schürz
Senior Consultant, Principal IT-Consultant, IT-Administrator
Last position:
Administration / operation / configuration / control / coordination at State authority (State of Hesse)
- administration, configuration, operation, installation, and troubleshooting of Windows Server systems (2016–2025) in a multi-domain infrastructure by tier level
- operation of Windows systems (VMware, Hyper-V, and physical)
- automated installation and patch management via MECM and WSUS
- support in the patch management process and backup process
- creation of server and operating system hardening according to BSI
- administration, configuration, and operation of Active Directory (AD)
- administration, configuration, and maintenance of group policies (GPOs)
- administration of cluster systems
- granting, modifying, and revoking access permissions and access groups
- control and documentation as well as coordination between business units and service providers
- change management: reviewing, evaluating, and controlling change requests
- performance analysis to optimize operating systems
- responsibility for solving malfunctions and internal service requests
- second- and third-level support
- creating documentation, operation manuals, and presentations
- working according to ITIL and IT baseline protection (BSI)
Robert Klingenberg
Trainer
Last position:
Trainer at Cordes & Graefe KG
- Conducting Excel training sessions and supporting the reorganization and setup of cost control in the wholesale business.
- Excel training content: building tables, data validation, date calculations, logical formulas (IF & IFERROR), lookup functions (VLOOKUP & XLOOKUP), name manager, error checking, grouping, file, workbook and sheet protection, sorting and filtering, subtotal calculations, pivot tables, get & transform (Power Query), Power Pivot, formulas and functions, creating links (GETPIVOTDATA).
- Reviewing the existing data structure, organizing and creating improvement proposals.
- Assisting with the implementation of all measures.
- Handling questions and answers on MS Excel.
Matthias Lepka
Manager with IT expertise, strategist and doer, diverse industry experience
Last position:
Head of IT System Architecture at Internal IT service provider
- Industry: metal processing industry
- Revenue: 740 million EUR
- Employees: 4,400
- Budget: 7 million EUR, 15 staff
- Designing and operating technical services
- Ensuring IT security
- Managing the central support organization (first, second, and third level)
- Digital transformation: strategic support / project management for OT platform and OT security
- Developing and introducing ITIL processes (incident management, problem management, service request fulfillment, change management, access management, service level management)
- Supporting and coordinating external service providers (provider management)
- Project management: planning and delivering IT services for a new main plant
- Promoting IT-OT convergence / OT asset management / OT security
- Organization: mediating and supporting reorganization
Achievements:
- Improving IT operations maturity (introducing and stabilizing processes, KPIs, ensuring transition)
- Replacing the ticket system with ServiceNow
- Stabilizing and developing IT security / ensuring resilience
- Successfully introducing OT segmentation (architecture, remote access control, micro-segmentation, OT asset management)
- Supporting introduction of manufacturing execution system (technical services / SaaS provider management)
- Integrating foreign sites (rollout of central IT services)
- Migrating on-premises server environment to MS Azure
- Rolling out Windows 11
- Supporting migration of on-premises SAP environment to SAP RISE
- Creating planning basis for IT network infrastructure of the new main plant
- Planning web shop
- Organizational development "From Operating to Designing" (target SIAM organization)
- Supporting BCM
Samir Soliman
Project Manager in the Cybersecurity Department
Last position:
Project Manager in the Cybersecurity Department at RWE AG
- Implementation of the new Group Cybersecurity Strategy based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Managing, coaching, and guiding the operational companies in their cybersecurity status quo analysis according to the NIST CSF methodology
- Gap analysis against the industry benchmark and target maturity level
- Client: CISO of RWE AG
Andreas Friedrichs
IT Project Manager, Business Analyst, Senior Consultant
Last position:
State-level police authority (anonymized)
- Managed the integration of another state's LKA into the infrastructure and services
- Further development of ITSM service reporting and definition of relevant KPIs
- Planning and further development of the Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure with a focus on high availability, performance and operational integration
- Migrating MS SQL and SharePoint service backup processes to Veeam Agent Backup
- Coordination of connecting the project platform to the central One Identity infrastructure for Active Directory management (IAM)
Mehmet Kayir
Sr. Solution Architect
Last position:
Sr. Solution Architect at Leading Business Solution Kayir GmbH
- Hands-on mentality – consulting, design, implementation, and support
- Specialized in application architecture on Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE (CRM) and Power Platform technology
- Solution review, technology advisory for the Microsoft solution stack
- Requirements analysis (fit/gap) against the Microsoft standard
- Performance analysis and optimization of existing solutions
Mahmoud Samir
CRM/Power Platform Technical Consultant and Solution Architect
Last position:
CRM/Power Platform Technical Consultant and Solution Architect at Freelancer
- System analysis and requirement engineering
- Designing and architecting system components
- Application consultation and best practices
- Developing system components
- Implementing Power Platform adoption and governance
- Migrating data to target system using best practices
- Conducting end user trainings
Konstantinos Metaxas
IT System Engineer
Last position:
IT System Engineer at Client belongs to critical infrastructure
- IT infrastructure services
- IT services, networks, Exchange, Office 365 & 2016
- IT documentation
- Collaboration with external partner & managed provider
- Stakeholder management
Markus Willems
KRITIS Consultant
Last position:
KRITIS Consultant at Oil Company
- Preparing an oil company for KRITIS auditing
- KRITIS consulting
- Creating necessary policies, processes, and guidelines in line with KRITIS requirements
- Tools and methodologies used: ISO/IEC 27001, BSI IT Baseline Protection, KRITIS-V
Diego Plaul
Schwerpunkt Microsoft Server und Clients
Last position:
Ingenieurbüro Plaul
- Focus on Microsoft servers and clients
- Focus on Active Directory administration
- Hardware: servers, clients, and network
- 27 years of consulting and administration experience
- Team player, good communicator, and motivating
- Languages: German (native), English (good)
- Availability from July 1, 2025
- Engineering degree in electronics, graduated as a university engineer (1981–1984)
- Postgraduate diploma: Dipl. Ing. (FH) (1993)
- MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
- MCITP Enterprise Administrator, MCSA, MCSE
- Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2002
- Driving license car (B) and truck (C1E)
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) statistics
Typical experience
21 years
Average project duration
2.7 years
Certifications per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
57%
Master's degree or higher
29%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers holding this certification are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Average rates for Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) & Seniority distribution
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have questions? Here you can find further information about FRATCH
A freelancer holding the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) credential has been recognized by Microsoft as someone who can teach Microsoft technologies professionally. It signals both technical depth and the ability to deliver structured, learner-focused training. For companies, that is useful when the goal is knowledge transfer, not only implementation.
MCT is a trainer credential, not a product-specific technical badge. A person may also hold Azure, Microsoft 365, or other Microsoft certifications, but MCT adds proof that they can teach those topics effectively. If you need a trainer, that teaching skill matters as much as subject knowledge.
Microsoft Certified Trainer is best suited for professionals who already work with Microsoft technologies and regularly explain them to others. That includes trainers, consultants, engineers, architects, and enablement specialists. If you enjoy workshops, demos, and classroom delivery, the credential can fit your profile well.
MCT candidates usually need strong Microsoft product knowledge, teaching experience, and the ability to work with Microsoft learning content. Preparation is less about a single exam and more about proving that you can train adults clearly and professionally. Most candidates already have hands-on experience and a track record in technical education.
Yes, Microsoft Certified Trainer is not an entry-level credential. Microsoft expects applicants to show current technical qualifications and evidence of training skill. In practice, that means the person should already be credible in one or more Microsoft subject areas and able to demonstrate instructional ability.
The MCT credential needs ongoing maintenance, so holders must keep their Microsoft knowledge and teaching profile current. Renewal is tied to staying active with Microsoft requirements rather than holding a badge forever. For companies, that helps ensure the trainer remains aligned with current products and teaching materials.
Microsoft Certified Trainer holders are especially useful in rollout projects, onboarding programs, partner training, certification prep, and user adoption work. They are also valuable for internal academy programs and customer workshops where people must learn by doing. In Germany, they are often engaged for distributed teams that need remote or on-site delivery in either German or English.
Look for the MCT credential together with relevant Microsoft subject expertise and real training examples. The best fit is someone who can explain the topic at the right level, manage questions well, and keep sessions practical. For complex Microsoft programs, teaching skill and platform knowledge should both be strong.
Request a Free Demo
Get in touch with the FRATCH team and we will get back to you within 4 hours.
Would you rather directly get in touch?
We always have the time for a call or email!
Philipp Thomaschewski
FRATCH CEO
