Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 81 106
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 7 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.44% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.40% 1.20% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £470 - £366
25th Percentile £491 £475 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £702 £525 £453
90th Percentile £794 - £504
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 499 334 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.19% 29.35% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 133 289
10th Percentile £193 £182 £263
25th Percentile £363 £306 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +3.96%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £675
90th Percentile £688 £673 £750
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 143
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.11 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.79 £60.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.02% +100.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £54.88 £72.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £91.00 £73.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the East of England

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Hertfordshire -17 3 £744 +48.75% 7
Bedfordshire - 2 - - 6
Essex -6 1 £505 - 17
Cambridgeshire -7 1 £488 - 8
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Agriculture
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) IFS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft BI Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Blazor
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Express.js
2 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) CRM
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Personalization
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Cribl.io
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) IFS
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase