Azure Certification Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 271 308
Rank change year-on-year +40 +37 +45
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 116 123 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.70% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.65% 2.99% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 78 124
10th Percentile £405 £312 £397
25th Percentile £488 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £688
90th Percentile £763 £741 £788
England median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £8.00
England median hourly rate - - £8.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,176 4,119 5,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.91% 23.60% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 2,817 3,821
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £661 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 112 82
10th Percentile £20.02 £14.37 £19.46
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.51 £25.25 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -50.25% +14.04%
75th Percentile £55.25 £42.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.63 £67.70 £87.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +37.50%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Central London +13 21 £643 +30.13% 11
South London - 1 - -
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (6.03%) Confluence
2 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) IIS
3 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 115 (99.14%) Azure
2 42 (36.21%) AWS
3 29 (25.00%) IaaS
4 27 (23.28%) Entra ID
5 26 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (22.41%) GCP
6 24 (20.69%) PaaS
7 18 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (15.52%) SaaS
8 17 (14.66%) Power Platform
9 15 (12.93%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (12.93%) Serverless
10 11 (9.48%) GitHub
11 10 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (5.17%) Azure AKS
14 6 (5.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.10%) Firewall
2 15 (12.93%) VPN
3 3 (2.59%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.59%) Network Security
3 3 (2.59%) SSL
4 2 (1.72%) DNS
4 2 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.72%) SAN
4 2 (1.72%) WAN
4 2 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.86%) BGP
5 1 (0.86%) MPLS
5 1 (0.86%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Power BI
2 14 (12.07%) Data Lake
3 12 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.59%) Metadata
8 2 (1.72%) EDMS
8 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.86%) MySQL
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.86%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) JIRA
2 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.59%) ERwin
3 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.86%) Git
4 1 (0.86%) GitLab
4 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 41 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.14%) Finance
3 13 (11.21%) Banking
4 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.76%) Marketing
6 5 (4.31%) Legal
6 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Law
8 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.86%) Back Office
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Police
10 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (35.34%) Architect
2 19 (16.38%) Azure Architect
3 18 (15.52%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (12.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (12.93%) Consultant
5 12 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (9.48%) Senior
7 10 (8.62%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (8.62%) Security Architect
8 8 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Data Architect
10 6 (5.17%) Project Manager
10 6 (5.17%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Analyst
11 5 (4.31%) Designer
11 5 (4.31%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Technical Manager
11 5 (4.31%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.62%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.45%) REST
3 3 (2.59%) Middleware
3 3 (2.59%) PySpark
4 2 (1.72%) JSON
4 2 (1.72%) OAuth
4 2 (1.72%) SAML
5 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.86%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.86%) BentoML
5 1 (0.86%) OpenID
5 1 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.86%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.86%) RESTful
5 1 (0.86%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.86%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.86%) XGBoost
5 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.59%) BYOD
5 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.59%) PKI
5 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Clustering
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.72%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.72%) NHS
7 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.62%) Linux
2 7 (6.03%) Windows
3 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.59%) VMS
5 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.93%) DevOps
2 30 (25.86%) Agile
2 30 (25.86%) Migration
3 26 (22.41%) CI/CD
4 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (21.55%) RBAC
5 24 (20.69%) Cloud Security
5 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (18.97%) Analytics
7 20 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
8 18 (15.52%) Zero Trust
9 17 (14.66%) ETL
10 16 (13.79%) Cost Optimisation
11 15 (12.93%) Data Engineering
12 14 (12.07%) Computer Science
12 14 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (10.34%) ITIL
15 11 (9.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.38%) PowerShell
2 18 (15.52%) Python
3 13 (11.21%) SQL
4 12 (10.34%) Bicep
5 9 (7.76%) Bash
5 9 (7.76%) Java
6 5 (4.31%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.59%) C#
9 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (26.72%) AWS Certification
2 27 (23.28%) Degree
3 23 (19.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
5 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
6 10 (8.62%) CISSP
6 10 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (6.90%) PMI Certification
7 8 (6.90%) PMP
8 7 (6.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (4.31%) CISM
10 3 (2.59%) CCNA
10 3 (2.59%) CISA
10 3 (2.59%) CRISC
10 3 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.72%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) NIST
2 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.17%) GDPR
4 3 (2.59%) QA
5 2 (1.72%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (16.38%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.21%) Docker
3 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 29 (25.00%) Terraform
3 8 (6.90%) Ansible
3 8 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.86%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.86%) Grafana
5 1 (0.86%) Istio
5 1 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.86%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Puppet
5 1 (0.86%) Salt
Vendors
1 66 (56.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.48%) Google
3 10 (8.62%) Oracle
4 8 (6.90%) Databricks
5 4 (3.45%) Cisco
5 4 (3.45%) Okta
5 4 (3.45%) VMware
6 3 (2.59%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.59%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.86%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.86%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.86%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.86%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.86%) F5
8 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.86%) Qualys
8 1 (0.86%) TOWER Software