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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 142 155
Rank change year-on-year +29 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 14 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.70% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.06% 3.42% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 25
10th Percentile £345 £503 £550
25th Percentile £403 £558 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -14.29% +34.62%
75th Percentile £578 £675 -
90th Percentile £655 £808 £753
Central London median daily rate £450 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -25.00% -7.69% +27.45%

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 457 701 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.94% 20.46% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 406 510
10th Percentile £382 £401 £375
25th Percentile £455 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £657 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £820 £738
Central London median daily rate £531 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile - £17.31 £18.78
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £31.75
Median hourly rate £20.91 £36.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.09% -18.87% +61.82%
75th Percentile £22.88 £53.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £25.35 £68.75 £61.45
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 £36.10 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.83% -18.87% +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 20 June 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 4 (28.57%) IaaS
4 4 (28.57%) Mimecast
4 4 (28.57%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
6 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (14.29%) Twilio
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) CTI
2 2 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) GoCD
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Marketing
6 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Integration Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) IVR
3 2 (14.29%) Low-Code
3 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 4 (28.57%) B2B
5 4 (28.57%) Change Management
5 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
6 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
6 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
7 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (21.43%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (7.14%) MBA
6 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 2 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Ceph
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) NFS
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Mesos
2 1 (7.14%) Nagios
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Avaya
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Genesys
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (7.14%) Zoho