Azure Certification Contracts

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 380 387 388
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 225 368 593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.62% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.70% 2.25% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 233 360
10th Percentile £349 £361 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.97% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +6 178 £525 -4.55% 163
London +31 105 £550 -2.22% 65
Work from Home +31 86 £550 - 86
UK excluding London +16 79 £500 -7.41% 101
Midlands +13 18 £615 +44.71% 16
South East +12 18 £456 -19.88% 27
North of England +20 17 £450 -10.00% 27
West Midlands +26 15 £615 +44.71% 11
Scotland +42 14 £550 -10.20% 8
South West +7 10 £600 +9.09% 13
North West +3 9 £475 -5.00% 17
Yorkshire +19 7 £450 -8.63% 7
East Midlands +17 3 £606 +51.56% 5
East of England +9 1 £475 +2.70% 11
North East - 1 £500 - 3
Wales - 1 £643 - 1

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.89%) Confluence
4 2 (0.89%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (4.89%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.44%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 225 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (29.33%) AWS
3 48 (21.33%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (18.22%) Entra ID
5 40 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (16.00%) IaaS
7 31 (13.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 22 (9.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (9.78%) Power Platform
9 21 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (8.44%) PaaS
11 14 (6.22%) GCP
12 12 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (4.44%) SaaS
13 10 (4.44%) Serverless
14 9 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.56%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.78%) Firewall
2 24 (10.67%) Network Security
3 16 (7.11%) DNS
4 11 (4.89%) DHCP
5 6 (2.67%) LAN
6 5 (2.22%) BGP
6 5 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (2.22%) EIGRP
6 5 (2.22%) HSRP
6 5 (2.22%) IPsec
6 5 (2.22%) IPv4
6 5 (2.22%) IPv6
6 5 (2.22%) MPLS
6 5 (2.22%) OSPF
6 5 (2.22%) TACACS
6 5 (2.22%) VLAN
6 5 (2.22%) VXLAN
6 5 (2.22%) Wireless
7 4 (1.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (5.78%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.33%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.00%) Power BI
6 7 (3.11%) Big Data
7 6 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.67%) Tableau
8 5 (2.22%) QlikView
9 4 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (1.33%) MySQL
10 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.89%) Metadata
11 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (3.56%) GitLab
2 6 (2.67%) Git
3 5 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.22%) JIRA
4 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.44%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.44%) GoCD
5 1 (0.44%) Hudson
5 1 (0.44%) MLflow
5 1 (0.44%) Moq
5 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.44%) Postman
5 1 (0.44%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 63 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.67%) Finance
4 20 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.44%) Banking
6 9 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.67%) Marketing
8 5 (2.22%) German Language
8 5 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.33%) Electronics
10 3 (1.33%) Law
10 3 (1.33%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (24.89%) Architect
2 51 (22.67%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (16.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (10.67%) Azure Architect
6 19 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.11%) Senior
8 15 (6.67%) Developer
8 15 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) SOC Engineer
11 8 (3.56%) Lead
12 7 (3.11%) Administrator
12 7 (3.11%) Analyst
12 7 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.11%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.11%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.67%) DBA
13 6 (2.67%) Network Engineer
13 6 (2.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.00%) .NET
2 7 (3.11%) REST
3 6 (2.67%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.22%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.22%) CSS
5 3 (1.33%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.33%) OAuth
5 3 (1.33%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.33%) RESTful
5 3 (1.33%) Web Services
6 2 (0.89%) ADO
6 2 (0.89%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.89%) JSON
6 2 (0.89%) LangChain
6 2 (0.89%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.89%) OpenID
6 2 (0.89%) YAML
7 1 (0.44%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.44%) J2EE
7 1 (0.44%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.89%) Management Information System
1 20 (8.89%) Security Posture
2 15 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.67%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.22%) Clustering
6 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.33%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.33%) PKI
7 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.89%) IoT
8 2 (0.89%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.00%) Windows
2 21 (9.33%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.00%) Linux
4 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.33%) Unix
5 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.89%) VMS
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.44%) AIX
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.22%) DevOps
2 57 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 46 (20.44%) Migration
5 41 (18.22%) Agile
6 36 (16.00%) Analytics
7 34 (15.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (13.33%) Cloud Security
8 30 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (10.22%) CI/CD
9 23 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (9.78%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (9.33%) ITIL
12 20 (8.89%) Data Analytics
13 19 (8.44%) Incident Response
13 19 (8.44%) Security Operations
13 19 (8.44%) TOGAF
14 16 (7.11%) Project Delivery
15 15 (6.67%) SIEM
16 14 (6.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.89%) SQL
2 40 (17.78%) PowerShell
3 35 (15.56%) Python
4 17 (7.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (4.44%) C#
6 9 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.11%) Bicep
8 5 (2.22%) Bash
8 5 (2.22%) Java
9 3 (1.33%) PHP
9 3 (1.33%) Scala
10 2 (0.89%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.44%) VB
11 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (32.89%) Degree
2 47 (20.89%) Security Cleared
3 44 (19.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (19.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (18.67%) SC Cleared
6 32 (14.22%) AWS Certification
7 20 (8.89%) CISSP
8 16 (7.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 12 (5.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (4.89%) Master's Degree
11 10 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (3.56%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.67%) CCNA
13 6 (2.67%) CCNP
14 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.33%) MCITP
14 3 (1.33%) MCTS
15 2 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.33%) NCSC
2 3 (1.33%) PMO
3 2 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.89%) NIST
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) COBIT
4 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.44%) GRC
4 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 22 (9.78%) Docker
3 18 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (7.11%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.22%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Ceph
8 1 (0.44%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.44%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.44%) XenApp
8 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (22.22%) Terraform
2 29 (12.89%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.89%) Ansible
5 7 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.22%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (1.33%) WSUS
9 2 (0.89%) Grafana
9 2 (0.89%) Nagios
9 2 (0.89%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.44%) Graylog
10 1 (0.44%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.44%) Mesos
10 1 (0.44%) Packer
10 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 136 (60.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.33%) VMware
3 14 (6.22%) Google
4 12 (5.33%) Databricks
5 10 (4.44%) Oracle
6 9 (4.00%) Cisco
7 7 (3.11%) Citrix
7 7 (3.11%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.11%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.67%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.22%) F5
9 5 (2.22%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.33%) SAP
10 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.89%) Facebook
11 2 (0.89%) Instagram
11 2 (0.89%) Juniper
11 2 (0.89%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.89%) Zoho