Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 35 54
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.80% 2.85% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.67% 6.40% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £530 £231 -
25th Percentile £547 £250 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £288 £600
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -52.00% +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £343 -
90th Percentile £725 £361 -
South East median daily rate £537 £650 £610
% change year-on-year -17.46% +6.56% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
South East median hourly rate £95.00 £12.00 -
% change year-on-year +691.67% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 300 125 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 47.77% 44.48% 38.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 90 176
10th Percentile £356 £209 £329
25th Percentile £463 £350 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.37% -9.52% +14.13%
75th Percentile £608 £584 £619
90th Percentile £640 £630 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.81% -1.82% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 6 15
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.51 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -5.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £26.33 £55.75 £25.04
90th Percentile £29.61 £67.50 £27.50
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £56.75 £58.00
% change year-on-year -34.80% -2.15% +18.36%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Buckinghamshire

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -20 5 £600 +108.33% 13
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (40.00%) Figma
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) FinOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) LLM
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) SABSA
2 2 (40.00%) Text Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Rancher
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (40.00%) VMware