Azure Certification Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 141 168 190
Rank change year-on-year +27 +22 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 25 17 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.36% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.34% 1.37% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 14
10th Percentile £393 £375 £306
25th Percentile £486 £403 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £563 £540
90th Percentile £720 £600 £575
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,070 1,240 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.47% 26.01% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 684 1,063
10th Percentile £230 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -2.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £652 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 165 70
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £12.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +15.62%
75th Percentile £59.24 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.59 £61.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +29 21 £564 +18.74% 26
Yorkshire +3 2 £550 +22.22% 15
North East +1 2 £413 -17.50% 5
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (44.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Entra ID
2 12 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (40.00%) IaaS
4 9 (36.00%) AWS
4 9 (36.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) Firewall
2 11 (44.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 11 (44.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (72.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Legal
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) French Language
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Architect
2 8 (32.00%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (20.00%) Analyst
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) CSS
1 2 (8.00%) HTML
1 2 (8.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) ADO
2 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 11 (44.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Business Continuity
1 11 (44.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 10 (40.00%) Change Management
3 9 (36.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (36.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (36.00%) Information Security
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) BCP
4 8 (32.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (32.00%) Computer Science
4 8 (32.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (32.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (32.00%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (28.00%) High Availability
5 7 (28.00%) Line Management
5 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Web Operations
6 5 (20.00%) Analytics
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (76.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (36.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (32.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (32.00%) Degree
4 7 (28.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
1 11 (44.00%) vSphere
2 9 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) VMware
3 9 (36.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) New Relic