Azure Certification Contracts 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 110 116
Rank change year-on-year +28 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 6 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.57% 0.051% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.66% 0.17% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £167 - £248
25th Percentile £276 £463 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +2.70% -22.11%
75th Percentile £522 £488 £538
90th Percentile £524 - £633
England median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -8.33%

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 362 601 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.54% 30.41% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 224 348
10th Percentile £178 £222 £260
25th Percentile £225 £345 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £619 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 224 161
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £14.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.27 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +15.11% +70.69% +22.03%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.25 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.28 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.71% -24.55% +35.80%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the East of England

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the East of England

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 23 June 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 23 June 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
Bedfordshire -1 3 £95 -80.00% 16
Cambridgeshire - 1 £488 - 17
Essex - 1 - - 25
Hertfordshire - 1 £500 - 33
Azure Certification
England

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

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) VCAP
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) IFS
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Sybase