Azure Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 330 356
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -18
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 72 127 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.54% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.95% 1.64% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 80 108
10th Percentile £369 £313 £362
25th Percentile £425 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £592 £661
90th Percentile £638 £676 £704
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,560 7,762 8,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.83% 33.02% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 5,203 5,219
10th Percentile £269 £286 £254
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 648 525
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East -3 18 £463 -18.43% 47
North of England +18 16 £450 -10.00% 55
Midlands +22 15 £600 +41.18% 44
Scotland +46 12 £513 +7.89% 9
West Midlands +22 12 £600 +41.18% 23
South West +1 9 £575 +4.55% 25
North West +12 8 £450 -6.49% 28
Yorkshire +27 7 £450 -11.76% 20
East Midlands +18 3 £606 +51.56% 21
East of England -4 1 £475 +1.33% 19
North East - 1 £500 - 8
Wales - 1 £643 - 8
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (31.94%) AWS
4 17 (23.61%) Entra ID
5 16 (22.22%) IaaS
6 14 (19.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (8.33%) PaaS
9 5 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (6.94%) Power Automate
9 5 (6.94%) PowerApps
10 4 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.56%) SaaS
11 3 (4.17%) Azure API Management
11 3 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) Firewall
2 8 (11.11%) Network Security
3 4 (5.56%) DNS
3 4 (5.56%) VPN
4 2 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.39%) Redis
5 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.39%) Hudson
3 1 (1.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) JUnit
3 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.33%) Finance
5 4 (5.56%) German Language
6 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Legal
7 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.39%) Automotive
8 1 (1.39%) Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Architect
2 15 (20.83%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 7 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Senior
5 6 (8.33%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.56%) Applications Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Power Apps Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Lead
7 3 (4.17%) Security Manager
7 3 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) CSS
1 5 (6.94%) REST
2 3 (4.17%) .NET
2 3 (4.17%) Web Services
3 2 (2.78%) ADO
4 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.39%) JSON
4 1 (1.39%) React
4 1 (1.39%) RESTful
4 1 (1.39%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.39%) Spring
4 1 (1.39%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.78%) PKI
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) iPhone
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) Windows
2 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.94%) Linux
4 3 (4.17%) VMS
4 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.39%) Unix
5 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) Migration
2 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (18.06%) Agile
4 13 (18.06%) Cloud Security
5 11 (15.28%) DevOps
5 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (11.11%) API Management
6 8 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (9.72%) Incident Response
8 6 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 6 (8.33%) Customer Service
8 6 (8.33%) SDLC
8 6 (8.33%) Security Operations
9 5 (6.94%) Cloud Operations
9 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
9 5 (6.94%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.94%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.44%) SQL
2 10 (13.89%) Python
3 8 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.94%) Java
4 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.56%) C#
5 4 (5.56%) PHP
6 3 (4.17%) Bicep
6 3 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (4.17%) Ruby
7 2 (2.78%) Bash
8 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.78%) Degree
3 15 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (16.67%) AWS Certification
6 8 (11.11%) DV Cleared
7 7 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (4.17%) CISSP
9 3 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.39%) CCNP
11 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (1.39%) SANS
11 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.39%) GRC
3 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (26.39%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (12.50%) Docker
4 6 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (6.94%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.94%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.78%) Ansible
5 2 (2.78%) Grafana
5 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.39%) Graylog
6 1 (1.39%) Nagios
6 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 39 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) VMware
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle
4 3 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) Apple
6 1 (1.39%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco
6 1 (1.39%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) Facebook
6 1 (1.39%) Instagram
6 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.39%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.39%) Zscaler