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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 324 297
Rank change year-on-year +100 -27 +69
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 119 73 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.35% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.54% 0.98% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 56 87
10th Percentile £325 £366 £316
25th Percentile £400 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £592
90th Percentile £694 £642 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £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 4,679 7,469 7,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.90% 36.05% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,834 4,357 4,938
10th Percentile £205 £275 £300
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £675 £723 £712
UK median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 954 578
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.56 £13.47
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.18 £40.97 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.45% -21.96% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.81 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +24.36%

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 31 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 31 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 +30 28 £550 +18.92% 33
North West +25 23 £525 +10.53% 23
Wales +23 21 £400 -37.74% 6
South West +53 19 £370 -35.65% 13
Scotland +12 18 £575 +12.20% 18
South East +40 15 £650 +40.54% 45
Midlands +15 15 £541 -8.85% 38
West Midlands +16 13 £550 -2.22% 30
East of England +28 5 £494 +3.95% 23
Yorkshire +12 5 £550 +22.22% 10
East Midlands +8 2 £520 -14.23% 7
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 (9.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.84%) Apache
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (40.34%) AWS
3 33 (27.73%) GCP
4 26 (21.85%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (19.33%) Entra ID
6 13 (10.92%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (10.08%) IaaS
8 11 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.88%) Azure API Management
9 7 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.52%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (2.52%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.52%) Azure Table
13 3 (2.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.65%) Firewall
2 13 (10.92%) Network Security
3 12 (10.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (6.72%) VPN
5 6 (5.04%) WAN
6 4 (3.36%) DNS
6 4 (3.36%) SAN
6 4 (3.36%) VLAN
7 3 (2.52%) MPLS
7 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.68%) BGP
8 2 (1.68%) DHCP
8 2 (1.68%) HTTP
8 2 (1.68%) LAN
8 2 (1.68%) OSPF
8 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.84%) SSL
9 1 (0.84%) VoIP
9 1 (0.84%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.08%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.88%) Metadata
4 6 (5.04%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.20%) Power BI
6 4 (3.36%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (2.52%) SSDT
8 2 (1.68%) GIS
8 2 (1.68%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.84%) Big Data
9 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.84%) Flink
9 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Git
2 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.84%) GitLab
2 1 (0.84%) Hudson
2 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.84%) Maven
2 1 (0.84%) Postman
2 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (47.90%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.53%) Finance
3 26 (21.85%) Telecoms
4 24 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (19.33%) Public Sector
6 11 (9.24%) Legal
7 9 (7.56%) Banking
8 7 (5.88%) Electronics
8 7 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.88%) Marketing
9 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Billing
10 2 (1.68%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (42.86%) Architect
2 25 (21.01%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.56%) Analyst
5 9 (7.56%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (7.56%) Developer
5 9 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) Applications Support
6 8 (6.72%) Azure Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Applications Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 7 (5.88%) Senior
7 7 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (5.04%) C# Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.08%) .NET
2 8 (6.72%) CSS
2 8 (6.72%) HTML
3 6 (5.04%) OAuth
4 5 (4.20%) YAML
5 4 (3.36%) ADO
5 4 (3.36%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.52%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.68%) PySpark
7 2 (1.68%) REST
7 2 (1.68%) SOAP
8 1 (0.84%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.84%) EDI
8 1 (0.84%) JMS
8 1 (0.84%) Kafka
8 1 (0.84%) Middleware
8 1 (0.84%) SAML
8 1 (0.84%) Spring
8 1 (0.84%) Web Services
8 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.04%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.04%) NHS
4 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.52%) Replication
5 2 (1.68%) CCTV
5 2 (1.68%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.84%) PKI
6 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.84%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.49%) Windows
2 18 (15.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.68%) Linux
4 1 (0.84%) Rocky
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (27.73%) DevOps
3 30 (25.21%) CI/CD
3 30 (25.21%) Computer Science
4 26 (21.85%) Enterprise Architecture
5 20 (16.81%) TOGAF
6 17 (14.29%) Agile
6 17 (14.29%) Analytics
6 17 (14.29%) Migration
6 17 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 15 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (12.61%) Cloud Security
7 15 (12.61%) High Availability
8 14 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (11.76%) ETL
8 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (10.92%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (10.92%) Business Continuity
9 13 (10.92%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.05%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.92%) Python
3 12 (10.08%) C#
3 12 (10.08%) SQL
4 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.04%) Bicep
6 5 (4.20%) Java
7 4 (3.36%) Bash
8 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (36.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 37 (31.09%) AWS Certification
3 33 (27.73%) Degree
4 30 (25.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (21.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (16.81%) Security Cleared
7 16 (13.45%) SC Cleared
8 12 (10.08%) Master's Degree
9 10 (8.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (5.88%) DV Cleared
11 6 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (3.36%) CCNP
12 4 (3.36%) CISSP
12 4 (3.36%) CITP
13 3 (2.52%) JNCIP
13 3 (2.52%) MCSE
14 2 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (1.68%) CCIE
14 2 (1.68%) JNCIE
14 2 (1.68%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
3 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.68%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.84%) NIST
6 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (16.81%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.08%) vSphere
4 5 (4.20%) Docker
4 5 (4.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (14.29%) Terraform
2 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (8.40%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.52%) Grafana
5 3 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.68%) Ansible
7 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 64 (53.78%) Microsoft
2 32 (26.89%) Google
3 19 (15.97%) VMware
4 11 (9.24%) Databricks
5 9 (7.56%) SAP
6 5 (4.20%) Cisco
7 4 (3.36%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.52%) Juniper
8 3 (2.52%) UiPath
8 3 (2.52%) Veeam
9 2 (1.68%) Citrix
9 2 (1.68%) ESRI
9 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.68%) Oracle
9 2 (1.68%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.68%) Sybase
10 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.84%) IFS
10 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.84%) Varonis