Azure Certification Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 133 152
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -32
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 5 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 1.65% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 12
10th Percentile £460 £485 £407
25th Percentile £475 £543 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £558 £594 £526
90th Percentile £592 £670 £639
South East median daily rate £456 £569 £520
% change year-on-year -19.88% +9.51% +6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

Azure Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,102 1,028 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 41.17% 35.00% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 700 669
10th Percentile £213 £318 £259
25th Percentile £413 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £622 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 45 29
10th Percentile £18.35 £20.10 £16.50
25th Percentile £41.88 £27.00 £18.76
Median hourly rate £58.65 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.81 £74.79 £27.00
90th Percentile £87.14 £80.25 £70.08
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.32 £44.50
% change year-on-year +0.05% +28.81% +11.25%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -10 3 £500 -7.92% 5
Buckinghamshire +19 2 - - 5
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analytics Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (40.00%) Affinity Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Key Management
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (40.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks