Azure Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 343 394
Rank change year-on-year -11 +51 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 181 326 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.67% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.62% 2.44% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 219 282
10th Percentile £322 £363 £421
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £700
90th Percentile £735 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £51.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -21.97% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Azure Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,195 13,355 15,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.75% 27.55% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,954 8,953 10,146
10th Percentile £313 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 676 680
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.91 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.93 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +27.98% +10.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £44.23
% change year-on-year -27.26% +24.34% +21.16%

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 May 2024. 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 +32 109 £538 -6.52% 70
South East +11 19 £456 -18.13% 37
North of England +18 16 £450 -10.89% 33
Midlands +14 14 £594 +39.71% 27
West Midlands +19 11 £563 +32.35% 15
South West -8 10 £600 +9.09% 18
North West +2 9 £475 -5.00% 18
Yorkshire +17 6 £450 -11.76% 10
East Midlands +17 3 £606 +51.56% 12
East of England +4 1 £475 +1.33% 11
North East - 1 £500 - 6
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 11 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) Confluence
4 2 (1.10%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.52%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) Azure
2 52 (28.73%) AWS
3 43 (23.76%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (17.68%) Entra ID
5 31 (17.13%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (16.57%) IaaS
7 19 (10.50%) Power Platform
8 17 (9.39%) PaaS
9 16 (8.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.63%) GCP
12 11 (6.08%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (5.52%) Serverless
14 9 (4.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (4.42%) Power Automate
15 8 (4.42%) PowerApps
16 7 (3.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.26%) Firewall
2 11 (6.08%) DNS
3 8 (4.42%) DHCP
4 7 (3.87%) Network Security
5 5 (2.76%) BGP
5 5 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (2.76%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (2.76%) EIGRP
5 5 (2.76%) HSRP
5 5 (2.76%) IPsec
5 5 (2.76%) IPv4
5 5 (2.76%) IPv6
5 5 (2.76%) LAN
5 5 (2.76%) MPLS
5 5 (2.76%) OSPF
5 5 (2.76%) TACACS
5 5 (2.76%) VLAN
5 5 (2.76%) VXLAN
5 5 (2.76%) Wireless
6 4 (2.21%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.97%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.87%) Big Data
3 7 (3.87%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.76%) Power BI
5 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.10%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.10%) MySQL
7 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.10%) Redis
7 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.55%) Metadata
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) GitLab
2 5 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.76%) JIRA
3 3 (1.66%) Git
3 3 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.55%) GoCD
4 1 (0.55%) Hudson
4 1 (0.55%) MLflow
4 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 50 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.02%) Finance
3 22 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.97%) Banking
6 8 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.76%) German Language
9 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.21%) Marketing
9 4 (2.21%) Retail
10 3 (1.66%) Law
10 3 (1.66%) Legal
11 2 (1.10%) Automotive
11 2 (1.10%) Billing
11 2 (1.10%) Electronics
12 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (24.31%) Architect
2 41 (22.65%) Azure Engineer
3 38 (20.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (11.60%) Azure Architect
5 19 (10.50%) Senior
6 18 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (9.39%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (7.18%) Developer
9 11 (6.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Analyst
10 8 (4.42%) Lead
11 7 (3.87%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (3.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Power Platform Developer
13 5 (2.76%) Administrator
13 5 (2.76%) Security Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.97%) .NET
2 8 (4.42%) REST
2 8 (4.42%) Web Services
3 6 (3.31%) CSS
4 5 (2.76%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.76%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.76%) Middleware
5 3 (1.66%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.66%) RESTful
6 2 (1.10%) ADO
6 2 (1.10%) JSON
6 2 (1.10%) OAuth
6 2 (1.10%) OpenID
6 2 (1.10%) PySpark
6 2 (1.10%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.10%) React
6 2 (1.10%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (1.10%) YAML
7 1 (0.55%) BentoML
7 1 (0.55%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.31%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.76%) Clustering
3 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.21%) IVR
4 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.66%) Grid Computing
5 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.66%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.10%) IoT
6 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.10%) PKI
6 2 (1.10%) Replication
6 2 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.10%) Tandem
7 1 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.76%) Windows
2 19 (10.50%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.73%) Linux
4 5 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (2.21%) VMS
6 3 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.10%) Unix
7 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.55%) AIX
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.83%) DevOps
2 40 (22.10%) Migration
3 32 (17.68%) Agile
3 32 (17.68%) Computer Science
3 32 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (17.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (11.60%) Analytics
6 18 (9.94%) CI/CD
7 17 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (8.29%) ITIL
8 15 (8.29%) Project Delivery
9 13 (7.18%) API Management
9 13 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (6.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (6.63%) Cloud Security
10 12 (6.63%) TOGAF
11 11 (6.08%) Data Migration
11 11 (6.08%) DevSecOps
11 11 (6.08%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (5.52%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.55%) SQL
2 33 (18.23%) PowerShell
3 32 (17.68%) Python
4 10 (5.52%) C#
4 10 (5.52%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.97%) Bicep
6 6 (3.31%) Java
7 4 (2.21%) Bash
7 4 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.21%) Scala
8 3 (1.66%) PHP
8 3 (1.66%) Ruby
9 1 (0.55%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) R
9 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (29.83%) Degree
2 37 (20.44%) Security Cleared
3 32 (17.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (16.02%) SC Cleared
5 28 (15.47%) AWS Certification
6 25 (13.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (7.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.52%) DV Cleared
8 10 (5.52%) Master's Degree
9 8 (4.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.87%) CISSP
11 6 (3.31%) CCNP
12 5 (2.76%) CCNA
13 4 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (1.66%) MCITP
14 3 (1.66%) MCTS
15 2 (1.10%) MBA
15 2 (1.10%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) GDPR
2 4 (2.21%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.21%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.66%) PMO
4 2 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.55%) GRC
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (20.99%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.60%) Docker
3 18 (9.94%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (9.39%) Hyper-V
5 11 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.21%) vSphere
8 2 (1.10%) XenApp
8 2 (1.10%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.55%) Ceph
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.55%) NFS
9 1 (0.55%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.55%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 40 (22.10%) Terraform
2 29 (16.02%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.42%) Ansible
4 8 (4.42%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.76%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.10%) Puppet
7 2 (1.10%) WSUS
8 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.55%) Grafana
8 1 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.55%) Mesos
8 1 (0.55%) Nagios
8 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (58.56%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.02%) VMware
3 12 (6.63%) Google
4 11 (6.08%) Cisco
4 11 (6.08%) Databricks
5 7 (3.87%) SolarWinds
6 6 (3.31%) CheckPoint
6 6 (3.31%) Citrix
6 6 (3.31%) Oracle
6 6 (3.31%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.76%) F5
7 5 (2.76%) Infoblox
8 4 (2.21%) Avaya
8 4 (2.21%) Genesys
9 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.10%) Facebook
10 2 (1.10%) Instagram
10 2 (1.10%) SAP
10 2 (1.10%) Zoho