Azure Certification Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 99 128 135
Rank change year-on-year +29 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 21 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.07% 0.33% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.97% 1.09% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 10
10th Percentile £413 £371 £303
25th Percentile £510 £380 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £708 £600 £566
90th Percentile £727 £619 £590
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +27 19 £632 +33.05% 21
Cheshire - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £400 - 1
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (52.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Entra ID
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (47.62%) IaaS
4 7 (33.33%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) Intrusion Detection
2 11 (52.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 18 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (33.33%) Legal
3 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
1 8 (38.10%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (23.81%) Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ADO
1 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Business Continuity
1 11 (52.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 10 (47.62%) Change Management
3 9 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (42.86%) Information Security
3 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (38.10%) BCP
4 8 (38.10%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
4 8 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (38.10%) Project Delivery
4 8 (38.10%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (33.33%) High Availability
5 7 (33.33%) Line Management
5 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 7 (33.33%) Web Operations
6 5 (23.81%) Analytics
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.76%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (38.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (38.10%) Degree
3 7 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 7 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
1 11 (52.38%) vSphere
2 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (52.38%) VMware
3 7 (33.33%) Google