Azure Certification Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 111 149
Rank change year-on-year +4 +38 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 16 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.73% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.72% 3.59% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 18
10th Percentile £425 £386 £503
25th Percentile £563 £437 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £683 £642 £671
90th Percentile £690 £751 £832
Central London median daily rate £646 £544 £600
% change year-on-year +18.85% -9.38% -14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 446 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.49% 20.35% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 292 416
10th Percentile £404 £376 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +9.57%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +9.57%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the City of London

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the City of London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the City of London

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Software Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Business Solution Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) EDI
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) WCF
2 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) VMS
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Debt
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.25%) Information Security
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) VMware