Azure Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 218 321 330
Rank change year-on-year +103 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 118 78 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.38% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.60% 1.01% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 57 80
10th Percentile £325 £370 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £647 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £641 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +27 25 £550 +22.22% 47
South East +52 23 £650 +40.54% 73
North West +29 21 £564 +18.74% 26
Wales +21 21 £400 -37.74% 6
South West +54 18 £373 -37.92% 13
Scotland +17 18 £575 +4.55% 8
Midlands +16 12 £540 -12.20% 31
West Midlands +10 11 £483 -21.45% 20
East of England +32 3 £494 +3.95% 13
Yorkshire +3 2 £550 +22.22% 16
North East +1 2 £413 -17.50% 5
East Midlands +8 1 £540 -10.93% 10
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (9.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.69%) Apache
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (41.53%) AWS
3 35 (29.66%) GCP
4 25 (21.19%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (19.49%) Entra ID
6 14 (11.86%) IaaS
7 11 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (6.78%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (5.08%) Azure API Management
12 5 (4.24%) PaaS
12 5 (4.24%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.54%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (1.69%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.25%) Firewall
2 15 (12.71%) Network Security
3 13 (11.02%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (5.93%) WAN
5 6 (5.08%) VPN
6 4 (3.39%) DNS
6 4 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.39%) VLAN
7 3 (2.54%) BGP
7 3 (2.54%) LAN
7 3 (2.54%) MPLS
7 3 (2.54%) OSPF
8 2 (1.69%) DHCP
8 2 (1.69%) HTTP
8 2 (1.69%) SAN
8 2 (1.69%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.69%) SSL
9 1 (0.85%) 5G
9 1 (0.85%) NGFW
9 1 (0.85%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.02%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.78%) Metadata
4 7 (5.93%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.24%) Power BI
6 4 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.39%) Metadata Repository
6 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.54%) Big Data
7 3 (2.54%) SSDT
8 2 (1.69%) Redis
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.85%) HBase
9 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Git
1 3 (2.54%) JIRA
2 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Hudson
3 1 (0.85%) Maven
3 1 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 60 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (22.03%) Telecoms
3 25 (21.19%) Public Sector
4 22 (18.64%) Finance
5 11 (9.32%) Legal
6 8 (6.78%) Banking
7 7 (5.93%) Electronics
7 7 (5.93%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.93%) Marketing
8 3 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.69%) Billing
9 2 (1.69%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.69%) French Language
9 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (39.83%) Architect
2 24 (20.34%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (14.41%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (8.47%) Developer
5 9 (7.63%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (7.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Analyst
6 8 (6.78%) Applications Support
6 8 (6.78%) C# Developer
6 8 (6.78%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Lead
7 7 (5.93%) Applications Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Azure Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 7 (5.93%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.02%) .NET
2 10 (8.47%) CSS
2 10 (8.47%) HTML
3 6 (5.08%) OAuth
4 5 (4.24%) ARM Templates
4 5 (4.24%) YAML
5 3 (2.54%) ADO
5 3 (2.54%) PySpark
6 2 (1.69%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.69%) Kafka
6 2 (1.69%) Middleware
6 2 (1.69%) REST
6 2 (1.69%) RESTful
6 2 (1.69%) SAML
6 2 (1.69%) SOAP
7 1 (0.85%) JWT
7 1 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.85%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.32%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.08%) NHS
4 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) IoT
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.69%) Replication
7 2 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
8 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.80%) Windows
2 17 (14.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.54%) Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Rocky
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (28.81%) DevOps
3 31 (26.27%) Computer Science
4 30 (25.42%) CI/CD
5 23 (19.49%) Enterprise Architecture
6 20 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (16.95%) TOGAF
7 18 (15.25%) Migration
8 17 (14.41%) Agile
8 17 (14.41%) Analytics
8 17 (14.41%) Software Engineering
9 15 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (12.71%) ETL
9 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps
10 13 (11.02%) Business Continuity
10 13 (11.02%) Cloud Security
10 13 (11.02%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.17%) Containerisation
11 12 (10.17%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (25.42%) PowerShell
2 18 (15.25%) Python
3 15 (12.71%) C#
4 12 (10.17%) SQL
5 9 (7.63%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.24%) Java
7 4 (3.39%) Bicep
8 3 (2.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.85%) Perl
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (34.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (33.90%) Degree
3 39 (33.05%) AWS Certification
4 31 (26.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (21.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (16.95%) Security Cleared
7 15 (12.71%) SC Cleared
8 13 (11.02%) Master's Degree
9 10 (8.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (6.78%) CISSP
11 7 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
12 5 (4.24%) CCNP
13 4 (3.39%) CITP
13 4 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (3.39%) JNCIP
14 3 (2.54%) CCIE
14 3 (2.54%) CISM
14 3 (2.54%) ISSEP
14 3 (2.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.47%) QA
2 5 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.39%) GDPR
4 2 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.69%) NCSC
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (15.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.17%) vSphere
4 6 (5.08%) Docker
5 5 (4.24%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (13.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (12.71%) Terraform
3 9 (7.63%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.54%) Ansible
4 3 (2.54%) SCCM
4 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (54.24%) Microsoft
2 34 (28.81%) Google
3 18 (15.25%) VMware
4 13 (11.02%) Databricks
5 9 (7.63%) SAP
6 4 (3.39%) Cisco
6 4 (3.39%) Cloudera
6 4 (3.39%) Juniper
7 3 (2.54%) UiPath
7 3 (2.54%) Veeam
8 2 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.69%) New Relic
8 2 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.69%) Sybase
9 1 (0.85%) Dell
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle
9 1 (0.85%) Remedy
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds