Azure Certification Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 121 134 183
Rank change year-on-year +13 +49 -45
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 18 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.66% 0.81% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.02% 2.87% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 19
10th Percentile £378 £310 £423
25th Percentile £497 £313 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £425 £565
Median % change year-on-year +44.71% -24.78% +6.30%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £625
90th Percentile £637 £630 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £609
% change year-on-year -4.55% -9.65% +21.75%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 890 974 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.62% 28.31% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 620 672
10th Percentile £225 £250 £210
25th Percentile £325 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £509 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% +13.06% +11.80%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 75 37
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.32 £11.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.75 £13.73
Median hourly rate £24.65 £18.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -6.25% +20.19%
75th Percentile £43.13 £26.81 £24.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £37.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +26 15 £615 +44.71% 11
East Midlands +17 3 £606 +51.56% 5
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) IaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Hudson
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) German Language
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
1 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 5 (27.78%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Cloud Security
2 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 6 (33.33%) SIEM
4 5 (27.78%) Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Data Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Threat Detection
4 5 (27.78%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) API Management
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Time Management
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (33.33%) CISSP
3 6 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto