Azure Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 324 354
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 79 133 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.03% 1.66% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 80 114
10th Percentile £336 £313 £370
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +17.02%
75th Percentile £613 £595 £662
90th Percentile £640 £689 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,661 7,993 8,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.07% 33.20% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,393 5,364 5,269
10th Percentile £263 £275 £250
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £526 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +5.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £720 £703 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 669 541
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.92 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.63 £49.57 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +57.82% -14.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.73%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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
Midlands +17 18 £615 +44.71% 16
South East +6 18 £456 -19.88% 27
North of England +19 17 £450 -10.00% 27
West Midlands +27 15 £615 +44.71% 11
Scotland +40 14 £550 +15.79% 7
South West -1 10 £600 +9.09% 14
North West +10 9 £475 -5.00% 17
Yorkshire +22 7 £450 -8.63% 7
East Midlands +18 3 £606 +51.56% 5
East of England +1 1 £475 +2.70% 11
Wales - 1 £643 - 2
North East - 1 £500 - 3
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 5 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (34.18%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (30.38%) AWS
4 19 (24.05%) IaaS
5 18 (22.78%) Entra ID
6 17 (21.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (11.39%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (11.39%) PaaS
8 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
9 7 (8.86%) SaaS
10 6 (7.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (6.33%) Power Automate
11 5 (6.33%) PowerApps
12 4 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (2.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.46%) Firewall
2 10 (12.66%) Network Security
3 7 (8.86%) DNS
4 3 (3.80%) DHCP
4 3 (3.80%) VPN
5 2 (2.53%) DMZ
5 2 (2.53%) SSL
5 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.27%) Junos
6 1 (1.27%) SDH
6 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.27%) MySQL
5 1 (1.27%) Power BI
5 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.27%) Redis
5 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.27%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.27%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.27%) Hudson
2 1 (1.27%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.86%) Finance
4 4 (5.06%) German Language
5 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Legal
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Automotive
7 1 (1.27%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.27%) Marketing
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Architect
2 16 (20.25%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (11.39%) Azure Architect
5 7 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior
7 5 (6.33%) Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Power Apps Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.06%) SOC Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Administrator
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Specialist
9 3 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (3.80%) Security Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) CSS
1 5 (6.33%) REST
2 2 (2.53%) .NET
2 2 (2.53%) ADO
2 2 (2.53%) Web Services
3 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.27%) JSON
3 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Security Posture
2 7 (8.86%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.80%) PKI
5 3 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Windows
2 13 (16.46%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.59%) Linux
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.53%) VMS
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.25%) Computer Science
2 16 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (18.99%) Cloud Security
3 15 (18.99%) Migration
4 14 (17.72%) Agile
5 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (12.66%) DevOps
7 9 (11.39%) Incident Response
7 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (11.39%) Security Operations
8 8 (10.13%) Analytics
8 8 (10.13%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (8.86%) API Management
9 7 (8.86%) Data Analytics
9 7 (8.86%) ITIL
10 6 (7.59%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.59%) SDLC
10 6 (7.59%) SIEM
10 6 (7.59%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) SQL
2 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
3 10 (12.66%) Python
4 6 (7.59%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (6.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.06%) C#
7 3 (3.80%) Bicep
7 3 (3.80%) Java
7 3 (3.80%) PHP
8 2 (2.53%) Bash
8 2 (2.53%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) R
9 1 (1.27%) VB
9 1 (1.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) Degree
2 23 (29.11%) Security Cleared
3 20 (25.32%) SC Cleared
4 17 (21.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (18.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (17.72%) AWS Certification
7 7 (8.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (8.86%) DV Cleared
8 6 (7.59%) CISSP
9 4 (5.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
12 1 (1.27%) CCNA
12 1 (1.27%) CCNP
12 1 (1.27%) HP ASE
12 1 (1.27%) JNCIA
12 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.80%) NCSC
3 2 (2.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) GRC
4 1 (1.27%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (27.85%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.66%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (10.13%) Docker
4 6 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (3.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.13%) Terraform
3 5 (6.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.53%) Ansible
6 2 (2.53%) Grafana
6 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.27%) Graylog
7 1 (1.27%) Nagios
7 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.27%) SCCM
7 1 (1.27%) SCOM
7 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (55.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.66%) VMware
3 3 (3.80%) Google
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle
4 2 (2.53%) Cisco
4 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.27%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.27%) Ciena
5 1 (1.27%) Databricks
5 1 (1.27%) EMC
5 1 (1.27%) Facebook
5 1 (1.27%) Instagram
5 1 (1.27%) Juniper
5 1 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.27%) Nokia
5 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.27%) Splunk