Azure Certification Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 113 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +80
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 22 19 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.89% 0.72% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.89% 2.30% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 13
10th Percentile £409 £345 £303
25th Percentile £474 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -26.09%
75th Percentile £681 £635 £475
90th Percentile £700 - £540
England median daily rate £550 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +8.64% -7.95% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 762 827 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.70% 31.24% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 518 515
10th Percentile £168 £296 £313
25th Percentile £325 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £613
90th Percentile £649 £721 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 50 18
10th Percentile £17.87 £12.98 £11.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.24 £14.84
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -11.27% +26.74%
75th Percentile £31.00 £51.91 £57.52
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.50 £65.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% -16.04% +24.84%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
West Midlands -5 18 £620 +18.10% 69
East Midlands 0 4 £500 -17.53% 32
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
1 3 (13.64%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Stack
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) AWS KMS
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (13.64%) Route 53
5 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
7 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) SMTP
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) FTP
2 3 (13.64%) HTTP
2 3 (13.64%) IMAP
2 3 (13.64%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (13.64%) SSH
3 1 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) GIS
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.55%) Flink
4 1 (4.55%) Metadata
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Architect
1 6 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior IT Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) JWT
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.55%) Loki
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) SAML
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (22.73%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Linux
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (13.64%) Ubuntu
4 3 (13.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Change Control
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Data Architecture
7 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Groovy
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Certification
3 5 (22.73%) Degree
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.64%) DFS Replication
3 3 (13.64%) Dovecot
3 3 (13.64%) Postfix
3 3 (13.64%) Squid
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Grafana
4 3 (13.64%) Nessus
4 3 (13.64%) Proxmox
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.55%) SCCM
6 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) ESRI
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) Veeam
4 1 (4.55%) VMware