Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Luton

Microsoft Azure Certification
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Luton with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 0.50% 2.70% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.41% 6.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £695 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £95 -
Median % change year-on-year +647.37% - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £710 £95 £475
% change year-on-year +647.37% -80.00% +2.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 71 50 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 35.50% 45.05% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 16
10th Percentile £74 £305 £300
25th Percentile £460 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £494
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +3.80% -10.23%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £550
90th Percentile £653 £603 £575
Bedfordshire median daily rate £529 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.75% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 5
10th Percentile £62.20 £63.30 £49.25
25th Percentile £62.97 £67.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £74.00 £84.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% +30.00% -21.21%
75th Percentile £75.00 £88.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £92.50 £80.75
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £74.00 £80.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.50% +23.08% -21.21%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton.

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Luton

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft