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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 126 156
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 -24
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 8 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.73% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 2.14% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 17
10th Percentile £402 £447 £417
25th Percentile £450 £543 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £592 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.76% +18.40% -3.61%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £600
90th Percentile £590 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £463 £581 £519
% change year-on-year -20.43% +12.05% +9.21%

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 1,082 980 1,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.34% 34.06% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 627 734
10th Percentile £250 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £619 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 48 28
10th Percentile £20.62 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.69 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £75.68 £75.17 £50.31
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £80.81
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £62.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -7.50% +37.78% +8.43%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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
Buckinghamshire +22 4 £370 -37.02% 9
Berkshire -17 4 £488 -25.00% 8
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 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure API Management
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 3 (37.50%) SaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) 4G
3 1 (12.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) iPhone
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Affinity Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
2 3 (37.50%) Key Management
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Target Operating Model
2 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) COBIT
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Apple
4 1 (12.50%) Databricks
34 Azure Certification jobs in the South East