Azure Certification Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 63 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.69% 1.19% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £573 £320
25th Percentile £495 £580 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £606 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +51.56% -20.00%
75th Percentile £585 £630 £450
90th Percentile - £634 £480
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 144 252 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.87% 32.60% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 145 223
10th Percentile £200 £167 £226
25th Percentile £225 £230 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £360 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -28.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £640 £669 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 49
10th Percentile £18.42 £12.75 £10.90
25th Percentile £19.23 £14.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £20.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +21.70% +18.84% -21.72%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.56 £26.48
90th Percentile £31.17 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the East Midlands

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the East Midlands

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire +7 1 £540 -8.09% 9
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce