Azure Certification Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 189 226
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 -36
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 18 32 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 1.47% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 24
10th Percentile - £488 £357
25th Percentile £263 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £569 £520
Median % change year-on-year -19.88% +9.51% +9.47%
75th Percentile £500 £610 £605
90th Percentile £581 £630 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £609
% change year-on-year -4.55% -9.65% +21.75%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Azure Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,470 2,179 2,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.75% 37.51% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,435 1,581
10th Percentile £313 £301 £298
25th Percentile £439 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £625
90th Percentile £735 £713 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 145 84
10th Percentile £17.52 £21.40 £18.99
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.76 £44.61
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +29.47% +11.53%
75th Percentile £67.02 £68.75 £56.40
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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
Hampshire -1 5 £275 -51.71% 8
Thames Valley -7 5 £500 -14.89% 13
Middlesex - 4 £275 -
West Sussex - 4 £481 - 3
Berkshire -8 3 £500 -7.92% 5
Buckinghamshire +19 2 - - 5
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
4 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (22.22%) IaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (11.11%) PaaS
6 2 (11.11%) SaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DHCP
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) DMZ
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.56%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (16.67%) PKI
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 4 (22.22%) Cryptography
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (11.11%) Affinity Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) API Management
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Key Management
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
4 2 (11.11%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) R
5 1 (5.56%) VB
5 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM
4 1 (5.56%) SCOM
4 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow