Azure Certification Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 93 147 141
Rank change year-on-year +54 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 18 10 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 0.31% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.95% 0.55% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 19
10th Percentile £318 £494 £310
25th Percentile £355 £516 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -37.92% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £619 £666 £600
90th Percentile £648 £681 £700
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 923 1,806 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.01% 56.46% 52.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,150 1,403
10th Percentile £250 £353 £388
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 196 156
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.45
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the South West

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the South West

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the South West

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +25 8 £370 -37.02% 3
Gloucestershire +14 5 £475 -20.83% 4
Wiltshire - 3 £613 - 1
Somerset - 2 £600 -
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) AWS
3 11 (61.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) VLAN
1 4 (22.22%) VPN
1 4 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) BGP
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) MPLS
2 2 (11.11%) OSPF
2 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Finance
3 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
4 7 (38.89%) Electronics
4 7 (38.89%) Manufacturing
4 7 (38.89%) Marketing
4 7 (38.89%) Telecoms
5 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Applications Support
1 8 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Applications Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Support Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Developer
3 6 (33.33%) C# Application Developer
3 6 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Architect
7 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) .NET
1 8 (44.44%) CSS
1 8 (44.44%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Rocky
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
2 8 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (44.44%) Service Delivery
2 8 (44.44%) Service Management
2 8 (44.44%) Software Delivery
2 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) TDD
2 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 8 (44.44%) User Experience
2 8 (44.44%) Web Development
3 7 (38.89%) Digital Marketing
3 7 (38.89%) Programme Management
4 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 2 (11.11%) IT Governance
7 2 (11.11%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) C#
1 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Degree
2 9 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
4 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
5 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (11.11%) CCIE
7 2 (11.11%) CCNP
7 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (11.11%) JNCIE
7 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
7 2 (11.11%) MCSE
8 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Google
2 7 (38.89%) SAP
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Databricks
4 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.11%) Juniper
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.11%) Veeam
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Dell