Azure Certification Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Certification
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 147 162
Rank change year-on-year +34 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 17 26 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.78% 0.73% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.88% 3.64% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 22
10th Percentile £373 £503 £550
25th Percentile £405 £558 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +41.41%
75th Percentile £600 £668 £701
90th Percentile £765 £832 £770
Central London median daily rate £538 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -10.42% -14.29% +40.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 438 714 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.09% 19.99% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 414 533
10th Percentile £366 £366 £367
25th Percentile £450 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +4.45% +4.86%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £650
90th Percentile £775 £820 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -6.04% +1.59% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 20
10th Percentile - £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £33.69
Median hourly rate £20.82 £51.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.58% +15.73% +71.15%
75th Percentile £24.20 £53.75 £56.13
90th Percentile £25.88 £71.75 £66.35
Central London median hourly rate £25.99 £51.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.54% +15.73% +122.50%

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 12 May 2024.

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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Entra ID
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
3 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Mimecast
4 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) IaaS
4 4 (23.53%) PaaS
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (11.76%) GCP
6 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
6 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
6 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 2 (11.76%) Twilio
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) CTI
2 2 (11.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) GoCD
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.76%) Law
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Integration Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Migration Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) IVR
3 2 (11.76%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 6 (35.29%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) B2B
4 5 (29.41%) Change Management
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
4 5 (29.41%) Data Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
6 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Adaptive Security
7 2 (11.76%) Conversational UI
7 2 (11.76%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
2 4 (23.53%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.88%) MBA
5 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Ceph
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) NFS
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Mesos
2 1 (5.88%) Nagios
2 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Citrix
3 2 (11.76%) Avaya
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Genesys
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (5.88%) Zoho