Azure Certification Contracts 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 107 149
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 +33
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Azure Certification 14 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 1.04% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.76% 4.38% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 15
10th Percentile £492 £419 £460
25th Percentile £544 £453 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -14.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £708 £628 £725
90th Percentile £830 £731 £815
London median daily rate £555 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +5.71% -4.55% -5.58%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 508 548 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.48% 23.78% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 345 431
10th Percentile £313 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £665 £650 £680
90th Percentile £755 £766 £820
London median daily rate £529 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -1.63% -2.27% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile £25.04 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.67% +33.33% -64.36%
75th Percentile £57.96 £27.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £65.57 - £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -45.45% +22.22%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification 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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Central London

Azure Certification
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -10 13 £650 +20.93% 11
City of Westminster - 1 £650 - 3
Azure Certification
London

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) IaaS
4 3 (21.43%) PaaS
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) Pentaho
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (14.29%) NoSQL Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.14%) ADO
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) CCTV
2 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
4 2 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bicep
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) CCNA
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Istio
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Databricks