Azure Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 287 368
Rank change year-on-year +33 +81 -105
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 87 187 262
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.75% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.12% 2.94% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 122 182
10th Percentile £335 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year - -6.14% +17.20%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £661
90th Percentile £750 £700 £744
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.97% -
UK median hourly rate - £51.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -21.97% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,100 6,366 8,706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.37% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 4,286 6,114
10th Percentile £331 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 275 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.13 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.68 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +32.56% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.44
90th Percentile £83.20 £83.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

Azure Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification.

Azure Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Azure Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification.

Azure Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.30%) IIS
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (32.18%) AWS
3 19 (21.84%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (20.69%) Entra ID
5 13 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (13.79%) IaaS
7 11 (12.64%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (11.49%) GCP
8 10 (11.49%) Power Platform
9 8 (9.20%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (9.20%) PaaS
10 7 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (8.05%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (5.75%) Power Automate
12 5 (5.75%) PowerApps
12 5 (5.75%) Serverless
12 5 (5.75%) Twilio
13 4 (4.60%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) Firewall
2 5 (5.75%) CTI
2 5 (5.75%) VoIP
3 4 (4.60%) Network Security
4 2 (2.30%) SSL
4 2 (2.30%) VPN
5 1 (1.15%) DNS
5 1 (1.15%) LAN
5 1 (1.15%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.15%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.75%) Big Data
3 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.60%) Power BI
5 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.30%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.30%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.15%) Metadata
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL
6 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Git
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.30%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.15%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Finance
3 10 (11.49%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.75%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Banking
6 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.45%) Electronics
7 3 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (2.30%) Billing
8 2 (2.30%) Law
9 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) Architect
2 18 (20.69%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (18.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Developer
4 7 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Azure Architect
5 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Specialist
6 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Power Platform Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Administrator
8 3 (3.45%) DBA
8 3 (3.45%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.45%) SQL DBA
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Support
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Middleware
1 6 (6.90%) Web Services
2 5 (5.75%) .NET
3 2 (2.30%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.30%) CSS
3 2 (2.30%) Hugging Face
3 2 (2.30%) LangChain
3 2 (2.30%) PySpark
3 2 (2.30%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.30%) REST
3 2 (2.30%) RESTful
3 2 (2.30%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.15%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.15%) Node.js
4 1 (1.15%) OAuth
4 1 (1.15%) React
4 1 (1.15%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.75%) IVR
4 2 (2.30%) Clustering
4 2 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.30%) Grid Computing
4 2 (2.30%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) PKI
4 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.30%) Tandem
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) FMCG
5 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.15%) VMS
3 1 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.33%) DevOps
2 19 (21.84%) Migration
3 17 (19.54%) Agile
4 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 11 (12.64%) Analytics
6 11 (12.64%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (12.64%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (11.49%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (10.34%) DevSecOps
8 9 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.20%) ITIL
10 7 (8.05%) Cloud Operations
10 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (6.90%) CI/CD
11 6 (6.90%) Cost Control
11 6 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.14%) SQL
2 14 (16.09%) PowerShell
3 9 (10.34%) Python
4 6 (6.90%) C#
5 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.60%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (4.60%) Scala
6 3 (3.45%) Bicep
7 2 (2.30%) Java
7 2 (2.30%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) Bash
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (22.99%) Degree
2 17 (19.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (18.39%) AWS Certification
4 15 (17.24%) Security Cleared
5 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
6 11 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (8.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (3.45%) CISSP
10 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (1.15%) CSSLP
12 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.15%) MCSE
12 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) GDPR
2 4 (4.60%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.60%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.79%) Docker
3 10 (11.49%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.15%) vSphere
6 1 (1.15%) XenApp
6 1 (1.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (20.69%) Terraform
2 13 (14.94%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.30%) Ansible
4 2 (2.30%) Nagios
4 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.30%) WSUS
5 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.15%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Graylog
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.24%) VMware
3 8 (9.20%) Oracle
4 7 (8.05%) Cisco
4 7 (8.05%) Citrix
4 7 (8.05%) Databricks
5 5 (5.75%) Avaya
5 5 (5.75%) Genesys
5 5 (5.75%) Google
6 3 (3.45%) SAP
7 2 (2.30%) Checkmarx
7 2 (2.30%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.15%) Facebook
8 1 (1.15%) Instagram
8 1 (1.15%) IronPort
8 1 (1.15%) Juniper
8 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.15%) Sparx
8 1 (1.15%) Splunk
8 1 (1.15%) Zscaler