Azure Certification Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 320 341
Rank change year-on-year +31 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 105 176 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.65% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.45% 3.02% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 114 162
10th Percentile £324 £404 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -13.46% +25.00%
75th Percentile £644 £658 £775
90th Percentile £756 £725 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £609
% change year-on-year -4.55% -9.65% +21.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
England median hourly rate - £51.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Azure Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,827 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.52% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,938 4,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 81 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £20.00 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure 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 Azure Certification within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +30 21 £544 -9.38% 11
South London +13 1 - - 1
Azure Certification
England

Azure 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 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.95%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.95%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (31.43%) AWS
3 23 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (18.10%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (17.14%) Entra ID
6 16 (15.24%) IaaS
7 13 (12.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (8.57%) PaaS
9 9 (8.57%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.71%) GCP
10 6 (5.71%) GitHub
10 6 (5.71%) Mimecast
10 6 (5.71%) Serverless
11 5 (4.76%) Azure Storage
11 5 (4.76%) OCI
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.29%) Firewall
2 9 (8.57%) DNS
3 8 (7.62%) DHCP
4 5 (4.76%) BGP
4 5 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (4.76%) EIGRP
4 5 (4.76%) HSRP
4 5 (4.76%) IPsec
4 5 (4.76%) IPv4
4 5 (4.76%) IPv6
4 5 (4.76%) LAN
4 5 (4.76%) MPLS
4 5 (4.76%) OSPF
4 5 (4.76%) TACACS
4 5 (4.76%) VLAN
4 5 (4.76%) VXLAN
4 5 (4.76%) Wireless
5 1 (0.95%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.71%) Big Data
3 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (2.86%) Power BI
6 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.90%) Metadata
7 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.62%) GitLab
2 4 (3.81%) JIRA
3 2 (1.90%) Git
3 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.95%) GoCD
4 1 (0.95%) MLflow
4 1 (0.95%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.33%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Banking
5 6 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Billing
9 1 (0.95%) German Language
9 1 (0.95%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (25.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 25 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (20.95%) Architect
4 12 (11.43%) Azure Architect
5 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Senior
7 6 (5.71%) Lead
8 5 (4.76%) Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.81%) Administrator
9 4 (3.81%) Consultant
9 4 (3.81%) DBA
9 4 (3.81%) Integration Architect
9 4 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) .NET
1 5 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.86%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.86%) OAuth
3 2 (1.90%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.90%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.90%) OpenID
3 2 (1.90%) REST
4 1 (0.95%) Anaconda
4 1 (0.95%) BentoML
4 1 (0.95%) FIDO
4 1 (0.95%) Node.js
4 1 (0.95%) PySpark
4 1 (0.95%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.95%) React
4 1 (0.95%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.95%) XACML
4 1 (0.95%) XGBoost
4 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.76%) Clustering
3 3 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.86%) Grid Computing
3 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.90%) Tandem
5 1 (0.95%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.95%) IoT
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.76%) Windows
2 9 (8.57%) Linux
3 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) DevOps
2 24 (22.86%) Migration
3 20 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (18.10%) Computer Science
5 17 (16.19%) Agile
6 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.38%) ITIL
8 12 (11.43%) Analytics
9 11 (10.48%) TOGAF
10 10 (9.52%) Cost Optimisation
11 9 (8.57%) CI/CD
11 9 (8.57%) Project Delivery
12 8 (7.62%) Data Migration
12 8 (7.62%) DevSecOps
12 8 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (6.67%) Change Management
13 7 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (6.67%) High Availability
14 6 (5.71%) Containerisation
14 6 (5.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.00%) SQL
2 19 (18.10%) PowerShell
2 19 (18.10%) Python
3 4 (3.81%) Bicep
3 4 (3.81%) C#
4 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.86%) Scala
5 2 (1.90%) Bash
5 2 (1.90%) Java
6 1 (0.95%) Groovy
6 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (25.71%) Degree
2 16 (15.24%) AWS Certification
3 14 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (12.38%) Security Cleared
5 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (4.76%) CCNA
8 5 (4.76%) CCNP
8 5 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.86%) CISSP
9 3 (2.86%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.86%) MCITP
9 3 (2.86%) MCTS
10 2 (1.90%) MBA
11 1 (0.95%) CISA
11 1 (0.95%) CISM
11 1 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) PMO
2 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.95%) COBIT
System Software
1 21 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.43%) Docker
2 12 (11.43%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.95%) Ceph
6 1 (0.95%) NFS
6 1 (0.95%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.95%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.95%) vSphere
6 1 (0.95%) XenApp
6 1 (0.95%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (32.38%) Terraform
2 17 (16.19%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.67%) Ansible
5 5 (4.76%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.90%) Puppet
7 2 (1.90%) WSUS
8 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.95%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.95%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.95%) Mesos
8 1 (0.95%) Nagios
8 1 (0.95%) Packer
8 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.10%) VMware
3 10 (9.52%) Databricks
4 7 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 6 (5.71%) Cisco
5 6 (5.71%) Citrix
5 6 (5.71%) Google
6 5 (4.76%) CheckPoint
6 5 (4.76%) F5
6 5 (4.76%) Infoblox
6 5 (4.76%) Oracle
6 5 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.90%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.90%) Zoho
8 1 (0.95%) Cognos
8 1 (0.95%) Facebook
8 1 (0.95%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.95%) IronPort
8 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow