Azure Certification Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 136 188 190
Rank change year-on-year +52 +2 +40
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 23 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.31% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.88% 0.68% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 26
10th Percentile £500 - £488
25th Percentile £528 £263 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £463 £569
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% -18.78% +9.51%
75th Percentile £691 £500 £610
90th Percentile £725 £592 £630
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,222 2,486 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.60% 44.73% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,412 1,432
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £735 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 145
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.52 £21.40
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.41 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the South East

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the South East

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the South East

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +52 14 £650 +30.00% 18
Berkshire +42 14 £650 +30.00% 11
East Sussex - 5 £700 - 2
Hampshire +26 4 £575 +24.32% 6
Surrey - 1 - - 7
Sussex - 1 - - 2
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Azure API Management
5 5 (21.74%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
6 4 (17.39%) AWS
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Storage
7 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Table
8 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 2 (8.70%) IaaS
8 2 (8.70%) PaaS
8 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub
9 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) 5G
2 1 (4.35%) BGP
2 1 (4.35%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) MPLS
2 1 (4.35%) NGFW
2 1 (4.35%) OSPF
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VoIP
2 1 (4.35%) VoLTE
2 1 (4.35%) VoWiFi
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) SSDT
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) HBase
4 1 (4.35%) HDInsight
4 1 (4.35%) Impala
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) Postman
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Billing
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) OAuth
1 5 (21.74%) YAML
2 4 (17.39%) ARM Templates
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.70%) ADO
5 1 (4.35%) Kafka
5 1 (4.35%) PySpark
5 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.35%) SAML
5 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
5 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.70%) IoT
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
4 7 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (30.43%) ETL
4 7 (30.43%) Identity Management
5 5 (21.74%) B2B
5 5 (21.74%) B2C
5 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
5 5 (21.74%) RBAC
5 5 (21.74%) Release Management
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (17.39%) Network Design
7 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) SIEM
7 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) C#
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Bicep
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) CISSP
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.04%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.04%) CISM
3 3 (13.04%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (13.04%) ISSEP
3 3 (13.04%) SSCP
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.70%) JNCIP
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) CCIE
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) HIPAA
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Flume
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) SCCM
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) UiPath
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) Juniper
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Snow
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.35%) StreamSets
4 1 (4.35%) VMware