Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.57% - 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.98% - 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £445
25th Percentile £563 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.39%
75th Percentile £688 - £706
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £446 £475 £625
% change year-on-year -6.11% -24.00% +8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 101 125 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.86% 23.81% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 98 183
10th Percentile £202 £203 £206
25th Percentile £239 £356 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -23.91% +4.55%
75th Percentile £548 £572 £678
90th Percentile £600 £654 £835
South East median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 18
10th Percentile £21.38 £11.71 £50.00
25th Percentile - £14.10 £54.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -53.43% -12.38% +36.96%
75th Percentile £27.29 £66.63 £75.37
90th Percentile £30.88 £72.71 £77.76
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £59.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -57.55% -1.26% +33.33%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Surrey

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Horley - 1 - -
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (50.00%) ITGC
2 1 (50.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft