Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Microsoft Azure Certification
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 11.11% - 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.71% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
South London median daily rate £644 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 68 69 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 75.56% 56.56% 73.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 46 81
10th Percentile £463 £380 £369
25th Percentile £503 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -1.95% -10.33%
75th Percentile £581 £583 £606
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.30% -8.17%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Croydon

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) Confluence
1 10 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (100.00%) Route 53
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) FTP
1 10 (100.00%) HTTP
1 10 (100.00%) IMAP
1 10 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
1 10 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 10 (100.00%) VMS
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Change Management
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Groovy
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 10 (100.00%) Postfix
1 10 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
1 10 (100.00%) Nessus
1 10 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 10 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow