Azure Certification Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Certification
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 83 95
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 14 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.53% 0.62% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.71% 2.86% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 8
10th Percentile £481 £373 £398
25th Percentile £513 £381 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -0.99% -8.18%
75th Percentile £716 £600 £659
90th Percentile £723 £675 £759
North West median daily rate £518 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -5.91% +8.91% -6.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 245 315 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.75% 21.74% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 186 339
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £417 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £638
90th Percentile £749 £825 £700
North West median daily rate £496 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 10
10th Percentile £22.76 £21.20 £18.22
25th Percentile £31.00 £25.50 £19.49
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +40.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.69 £35.26
90th Percentile £73.00 £93.00 £40.75
North West median hourly rate £31.00 £16.06 £40.59
% change year-on-year +93.03% -60.43% +24.91%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Manchester

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Manchester

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Manchester

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Salford - 4 £708 - 4
Azure Certification
North West

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (50.00%) IaaS
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Firewall
1 7 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 7 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 11 (78.57%) Telecoms
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Licensing
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 7 (50.00%) Change Management
1 7 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 6 (42.86%) BCP
2 6 (42.86%) Business Continuity Planning
2 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
2 6 (42.86%) Information Security
2 6 (42.86%) Line Management
2 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Web Operations
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CISM
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (50.00%) vSphere
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike