Azure Certification Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 65 91 88
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.54% 0.25% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.94% 0.37% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile - £301 £513
25th Percentile £500 £359 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £569
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -18.78% +29.42%
75th Percentile £659 £559 £610
90th Percentile £676 £614 -
South East median daily rate £650 £463 £569
% change year-on-year +40.54% -18.78% +9.51%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 426 1,068 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 57.10% 66.34% 57.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 603 527
10th Percentile £375 £425 £250
25th Percentile £488 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.48%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £638
90th Percentile £660 £743 £713
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 74 62
10th Percentile £20.09 £26.00 £25.39
25th Percentile £24.66 £53.40 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.35 £61.59
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -6.88% +26.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.96
90th Percentile - £80.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Hampshire

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Hampshire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Hampshire

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Eastleigh - 2 £500 - 2
Havant - 2 £663 -
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) NGFW
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Management
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft