Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.39% - 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.64% - 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £419 £600
% change year-on-year +17.91% -30.21% +33.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 183 80 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.52% 25.08% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 54 79
10th Percentile £345 £156 £385
25th Percentile £418 £220 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -21.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £648 £580 £688
90th Percentile £703 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -73.00% +463.70%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £28.07 £30.05
% change year-on-year -10.39% -6.60% +117.60%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in South Yorkshire

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Sheffield - 3 £500 - 4
Azure Certification
Yorkshire

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP