Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Microsoft Azure Certification
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.17% - 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.44% - 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £600
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -21.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 45 18 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 26.32% 19.57% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 15
10th Percentile £178 - £262
25th Percentile £220 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +2.78% +18.42%
75th Percentile £529 £572 £538
90th Percentile £613 £598 £660
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.06
25th Percentile - - £38.65
Median hourly rate - - £52.59
75th Percentile - - £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +1.45% +42.27%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Coventry

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPv4
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper