Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Azure Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 104 128
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +48
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 11 27 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.54% 1.16% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.93% 4.62% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 16
10th Percentile £526 - £331
25th Percentile £563 £463 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £644
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -8.74% +11.96%
75th Percentile £775 £695 £706
90th Percentile £808 £741 £731
London median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -6.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 569 585 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 28.11% 25.15% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 355 343
10th Percentile £350 £309 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £636 £684
90th Percentile £738 £741 £790
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £22.95 £24.78 £16.26
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.94 £21.95
Median hourly rate £25.99 £72.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.03% +20.42% +39.53%
75th Percentile £28.94 £112.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £40.15 - £75.25
London median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £47.44
% change year-on-year -32.08% -20.95% +6.48%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Central London

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. 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
City of London -29 7 £750 +27.66% 15
Azure Certification
London

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) IaaS
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (18.18%) PaaS
5 2 (18.18%) SaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
1 3 (27.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Migration Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Sitecore Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
4 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Scala
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Datto
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Sitecore
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam