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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 125 130
Rank change year-on-year +35 +5 +30
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 14 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.91% 0.30% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.66% 0.74% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 18
10th Percentile £498 £402 £454
25th Percentile £500 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £595
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.13% +18.95%
75th Percentile £675 £500 £675
90th Percentile £690 £590 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £588
% change year-on-year +8.11% -21.28% +11.90%

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 527 1,076 1,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.33% 40.62% 34.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 551 640
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £439 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.88% +3.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 118 50
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.67 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £43.06 £23.38
Median hourly rate £49.40 £60.83 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.79% -1.09% +192.86%
75th Percentile £75.92 £76.55 £74.66
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.53 £79.30
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.64% -4.42% +33.33%

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 July 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 July 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 +31 14 £550 +12.82% 55
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Storage
3 6 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (35.71%) AWS
4 5 (35.71%) GCP
5 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
6 3 (21.43%) Azure API Management
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Table
6 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
6 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) NAS
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) 5G
2 1 (7.14%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) VoIP
2 1 (7.14%) VoLTE
2 1 (7.14%) VoWiFi
2 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) 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 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Site Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Architect
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
2 3 (21.43%) ADO
2 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Identity Management
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) B2B
5 2 (14.29%) B2C
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Network Design
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Bicep
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) JNCIP
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) EMC
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) NetApp
1 4 (28.57%) Pure Storage
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Snow
2 1 (7.14%) UiPath
2 1 (7.14%) VMware