Azure Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 303 368 357
Rank change year-on-year +65 -11 +33
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 186 176 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.47% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.44% 1.51% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 206
10th Percentile £355 £322 £361
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £626 £650
90th Percentile £729 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - - £27.88
Median hourly rate - - £51.50
75th Percentile - - £78.88
90th Percentile - - £93.05
UK median hourly rate - - £51.50
% change year-on-year - - -21.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London +30 96 £588 +7.80% 123
North of England +27 25 £550 +22.22% 46
South East +52 23 £650 +40.54% 72
North West +29 21 £564 +18.74% 26
South West +54 18 £373 -37.92% 13
Midlands +16 12 £540 -12.20% 31
West Midlands +10 11 £483 -21.45% 20
East of England +32 3 £494 +3.95% 13
Yorkshire +3 2 £550 +22.22% 15
North East +1 2 £413 -17.50% 5
East Midlands +8 1 £540 -10.93% 10
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.30%) Confluence
3 5 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.61%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Maximo
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 185 (99.46%) Azure
2 72 (38.71%) AWS
3 48 (25.81%) GCP
4 47 (25.27%) Entra ID
5 37 (19.89%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (18.82%) IaaS
7 31 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (10.75%) PaaS
9 18 (9.68%) SaaS
10 16 (8.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (8.60%) Serverless
11 14 (7.53%) Power Platform
12 13 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (5.91%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (5.38%) Azure API Management
15 9 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (4.30%) GitHub
17 7 (3.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (18.28%) Firewall
2 21 (11.29%) VPN
3 18 (9.68%) Network Security
4 12 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (4.84%) WAN
6 5 (2.69%) LAN
7 4 (2.15%) BGP
7 4 (2.15%) DNS
7 4 (2.15%) MPLS
7 4 (2.15%) VLAN
8 3 (1.61%) OSPF
8 3 (1.61%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.08%) DHCP
9 2 (1.08%) NGFW
9 2 (1.08%) SAN
9 2 (1.08%) SSL
10 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.54%) VoIP
10 1 (0.54%) Wireless
10 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.59%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (8.06%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.91%) Power BI
5 6 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.23%) Metadata
6 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.61%) SSDT
8 2 (1.08%) Big Data
8 2 (1.08%) EDMS
8 2 (1.08%) MySQL
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.08%) Redis
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.54%) HBase
9 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.45%) JIRA
2 7 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.15%) Git
4 2 (1.08%) GitLab
4 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.54%) Hudson
5 1 (0.54%) Maven
5 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 82 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.13%) Finance
4 28 (15.05%) Telecoms
5 17 (9.14%) Legal
6 15 (8.06%) Marketing
7 14 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 13 (6.99%) Banking
9 7 (3.76%) Electronics
9 7 (3.76%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.15%) Billing
11 3 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.61%) Law
11 3 (1.61%) Retail
12 2 (1.08%) French Language
12 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Back Office
13 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (30.65%) Architect
2 31 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (10.75%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.60%) Consultant
4 16 (8.60%) Security Architect
5 13 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) Developer
7 11 (5.91%) Lead
8 10 (5.38%) Azure Architect
8 10 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.84%) Analyst
9 9 (4.84%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Senior
9 9 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Applications Support
10 8 (4.30%) Azure Developer
10 8 (4.30%) C# Developer
10 8 (4.30%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.06%) .NET
2 12 (6.45%) ARM Templates
3 11 (5.91%) CSS
3 11 (5.91%) HTML
4 9 (4.84%) OAuth
5 5 (2.69%) SAML
5 5 (2.69%) YAML
6 4 (2.15%) Middleware
6 4 (2.15%) PySpark
7 3 (1.61%) ADO
7 3 (1.61%) REST
7 3 (1.61%) RESTful
7 3 (1.61%) SOAP
7 3 (1.61%) XML
8 2 (1.08%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.08%) JSON
8 2 (1.08%) Kafka
8 2 (1.08%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.08%) Spring
8 2 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.91%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.69%) PKI
6 5 (2.69%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.69%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.61%) BYOD
7 3 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.61%) NHS
7 3 (1.61%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.08%) Clustering
8 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.08%) IoT
8 2 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.05%) Windows
2 21 (11.29%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.84%) Linux
4 3 (1.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Rocky
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.80%) DevOps
2 53 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 38 (20.43%) Agile
5 36 (19.35%) Computer Science
6 33 (17.74%) Migration
7 32 (17.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (16.67%) Cloud Security
9 30 (16.13%) RBAC
10 28 (15.05%) Analytics
11 27 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (13.44%) ETL
12 25 (13.44%) Software Engineering
13 23 (12.37%) Containerisation
14 21 (11.29%) Enterprise Architecture
14 21 (11.29%) Information Security
15 19 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (10.22%) Identity Access Management
15 19 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (9.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.27%) PowerShell
2 28 (15.05%) Python
3 18 (9.68%) C#
4 17 (9.14%) SQL
5 12 (6.45%) Bicep
5 12 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.91%) Bash
7 10 (5.38%) Java
8 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.54%) Perl
9 1 (0.54%) PHP
9 1 (0.54%) R
9 1 (0.54%) Ruby
9 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (28.49%) Degree
2 52 (27.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (27.42%) AWS Certification
4 33 (17.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (16.13%) Security Cleared
6 23 (12.37%) SC Cleared
7 19 (10.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (10.22%) CISSP
8 12 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (4.84%) CISM
10 7 (3.76%) CCNP
10 7 (3.76%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.76%) PMI Certification
10 7 (3.76%) PMP
11 5 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.15%) CCIE
12 4 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.15%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.61%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.53%) QA
2 12 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.84%) GDPR
3 9 (4.84%) NIST
4 6 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.15%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.08%) NCSC
7 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.08%) SLA
8 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (19.89%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.22%) Docker
3 17 (9.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.45%) vSphere
5 9 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.69%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (19.89%) Terraform
2 36 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (3.76%) Ansible
6 3 (1.61%) Grafana
6 3 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.61%) SCCM
7 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.54%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 103 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 33 (17.74%) Google
3 19 (10.22%) VMware
4 13 (6.99%) Oracle
5 12 (6.45%) Databricks
6 10 (5.38%) SAP
7 6 (3.23%) Cisco
8 5 (2.69%) Okta
9 4 (2.15%) Juniper
9 4 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.61%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.61%) UiPath
10 3 (1.61%) Veeam
10 3 (1.61%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.08%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.08%) New Relic
12 1 (0.54%) Atlassian