Azure Certification Contract Job Trends 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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 137 161
Rank change year-on-year -41 +24 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 25 28 30
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.53% 0.79% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.73% 2.58% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 21
10th Percentile £415 £358 £400
25th Percentile £434 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -15.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £591 £563 £625
90th Percentile £733 £646 £675
England median daily rate £548 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.29% -12.50% +6.01%

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 1,444 1,084 1,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.55% 30.47% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 618 795
10th Percentile £251 £220 £256
25th Percentile £400 £356 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £585 £630
90th Percentile £699 £675 £707
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 67 80
10th Percentile £16.29 £18.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.16 £22.22 £29.58
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +78.92%
75th Percentile £60.61 £51.45 £46.89
90th Percentile £72.29 £74.04 £55.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Certification

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -22 17 £500 -4.76% 39
Yorkshire -52 8 £494 +17.91% 30
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) GCP
3 11 (44.00%) AWS
4 7 (28.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.00%) Apigee
7 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Storage
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (8.00%) IaaS
7 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (8.00%) Stackdriver
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.00%) Redis
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) GitLab
4 2 (8.00%) Git
4 2 (8.00%) Spinnaker
5 1 (4.00%) Gradle
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Log4j
5 1 (4.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) Mockito
5 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Banking
4 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Military
6 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.00%) Electronics
7 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Change Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Governance Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
1 3 (12.00%) JSON
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
1 3 (12.00%) Node.js
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (8.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) Swagger
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.00%) JMS
3 1 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (4.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Analytics
6 5 (20.00%) Migration
6 5 (20.00%) SDLC
6 5 (20.00%) SIEM
6 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 5 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
7 4 (16.00%) ITIL
7 4 (16.00%) Use Case
7 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.00%) C#
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) Bicep
4 3 (12.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Degree
2 8 (32.00%) AWS Certification
3 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.00%) CCSP
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (8.00%) CISSP
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (8.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (4.00%) BC Cleared
7 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (4.00%) CBAP
7 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
2 4 (16.00%) QA
3 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 3 (12.00%) PSD2
4 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (4.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (28.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (8.00%) Istio
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) LogRhythm
3 2 (8.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.00%) CloudEndure
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) InterSystems
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce