Azure Certification Contract Job Trends 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 9 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 66 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.65% 0.13% 0.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.62% 0.53% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £432 - £334
25th Percentile £473 £613 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £625 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +35.14% -22.92%
75th Percentile £527 £638 £513
90th Percentile £562 - £535
England median daily rate £523 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +1.95% -6.82% -3.51%

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 191 190 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.84% 24.42% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 101 150
10th Percentile £188 £306 £350
25th Percentile £312 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -9.31% +7.37%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £659 £716
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 24 6
10th Percentile - £12.75 £17.19
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.70 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £22.09 £17.83
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +23.87% -9.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £51.91 £19.81
90th Percentile - - £20.26
England median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -54.27% - +22.22%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Certification

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 9 September 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
Lincolnshire +5 1 £505 -19.20% 1
Northamptonshire - 1 £410 - 6
Nottinghamshire - 1 £500 - 14
Derbyshire - 1 - - 10
Leicestershire - 1 £540 - 7
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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
1 1 (20.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (20.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Express.js
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (20.00%) Loki
1 1 (20.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce