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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 187 179
Rank change year-on-year +53 -8 +50
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 20 20 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.64% 0.35% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.60% 0.79% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 31
10th Percentile £367 £263 £413
25th Percentile - £398 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -21.28% +11.90%
75th Percentile £663 £500 £675
90th Percentile £685 £590 £688
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -6.78%

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 1,248 2,532 2,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 39.96% 44.62% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 1,471 1,327
10th Percentile £250 £351 £300
25th Percentile £406 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £618
90th Percentile £663 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 224 128
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.80 £19.20
25th Percentile £25.15 £29.18 £42.50
Median hourly rate £47.81 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.64% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.39 £71.54
90th Percentile £80.10 £87.46 £75.67
England median hourly rate £28.60 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.71% -22.73% +32.53%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +30 14 £550 +15.79% 74
Berkshire +29 14 £550 +12.82% 53
Hampshire +31 4 £500 -9.09% 30
East Sussex - 2 £319 - 9
Surrey - 1 - - 19
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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (35.00%) Azure Storage
2 7 (35.00%) GCP
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Table
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
1 4 (20.00%) NAS
1 4 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) 5G
2 1 (5.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (5.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) VoIP
2 1 (5.00%) VoLTE
2 1 (5.00%) VoWiFi
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Billing
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Site Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Environment And Release Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Release Manager
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Architect
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (15.00%) ADO
2 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (20.00%) Storage Management
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.00%) Network Design
5 3 (15.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) B2B
6 2 (10.00%) B2C
6 2 (10.00%) ETL
6 2 (10.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Bicep
3 4 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (10.00%) CCNA
5 2 (10.00%) CCNP
5 2 (10.00%) CISSP
5 2 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) JNCIP
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) GDPR
2 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
4 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Grafana
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) EMC
2 4 (20.00%) NetApp
2 4 (20.00%) Pure Storage
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Snow
4 1 (5.00%) UiPath
4 1 (5.00%) VMware