Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft Azure Certification
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 68 59
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.49% 0.53% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 3.66% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £380 -
25th Percentile £519 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% - -
75th Percentile £541 £544 -
90th Percentile £562 £570 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £538 -
% change year-on-year -2.42% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 164 82 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.94% 14.62% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 66 45
10th Percentile £367 £317 £381
25th Percentile £455 £346 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £416 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.63% -24.32% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £523 £600
90th Percentile £688 £594 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +22.38% -20.00% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.30% +37.04% +22.73%
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £18.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +39.30% +37.04% -55.74%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (40.00%) Datadog
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Claude Code
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Storage Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) EMC VMAX
1 3 (60.00%) EMC VNX
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (20.00%) CoreOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (80.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Key Management
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Network Design
3 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) NCDA
1 3 (60.00%) NCIE
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) GSEC
2 1 (20.00%) RHCA
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 3 (60.00%) SRDF
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) NFS
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Ceph
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Argo
2 3 (60.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (60.00%) SnapMirror
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (40.00%) SnapVault
3 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) 3PAR
2 3 (60.00%) Brocade
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
2 3 (60.00%) EMC
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) Veeam
3 2 (40.00%) Pure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Commvault
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) Splunk