Azure Certification Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 88 140 134
Rank change year-on-year +52 -6 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 14 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.19% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.56% 0.45% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £530 £460 £485
25th Percentile £625 £475 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £688 £558 £594
90th Percentile £690 £592 £670
South East median daily rate £650 £463 £569
% change year-on-year +40.54% -18.78% +9.51%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +42 14 £650 +30.00% 25
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (42.86%) Azure API Management
3 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Storage
5 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Table
6 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub
7 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) 5G
2 1 (7.14%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) NGFW
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) VoIP
2 1 (7.14%) VoLTE
2 1 (7.14%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) SSDT
3 2 (14.29%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) HBase
4 1 (7.14%) HDInsight
4 1 (7.14%) Impala
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) OAuth
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 3 (21.43%) YAML
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) ADO
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) PySpark
4 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
4 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
4 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) ETL
3 7 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) B2B
5 5 (35.71%) B2C
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) RBAC
5 5 (35.71%) Release Management
6 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
7 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 2 (14.29%) Microservices
7 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Network Design
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CCNP
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) JNCIP
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Flume
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) UiPath
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Snow
3 1 (7.14%) StreamSets