Azure Certification Contracts

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 389 391
Rank change year-on-year +31 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 227 363 588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.61% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.71% 2.25% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 238 359
10th Percentile £350 £360 £406
25th Percentile £425 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.97% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,248 16,120 19,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 10,751 12,592
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £627
90th Percentile £745 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.19% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 840 769
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.75
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.17 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.43%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.33 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year -17.91% +53.49% -5.92%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 May 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
England -7 180 £519 -5.68% 194
London +51 106 £544 -1.14% 66
Work from Home +34 89 £550 - 115
UK excluding London +6 77 £500 -6.54% 139
South East +10 20 £463 -18.43% 38
Midlands +25 18 £600 +41.18% 25
North of England +15 16 £450 -7.69% 36
West Midlands +19 15 £600 +41.18% 11
Scotland +40 12 £513 -6.82% 7
South West +5 9 £575 +4.55% 20
North West +14 8 £450 -6.49% 20
Yorkshire +20 7 £450 -8.63% 12
East Midlands +18 3 £606 +51.56% 14
East of England 0 1 £475 +1.33% 13
North East - 1 £500 - 5
Wales - 1 £643 - 3

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (4.85%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.08%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.44%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 227 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (31.28%) AWS
3 49 (21.59%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (18.06%) Entra ID
5 38 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (14.54%) IaaS
7 29 (12.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 24 (10.57%) Power Platform
9 21 (9.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (8.37%) GCP
12 17 (7.49%) PaaS
13 12 (5.29%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (5.29%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (4.85%) Serverless
15 10 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (3.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 8 (3.52%) Power Automate
17 8 (3.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (16.74%) Firewall
2 22 (9.69%) Network Security
3 15 (6.61%) DNS
4 10 (4.41%) DHCP
5 6 (2.64%) CTI
5 6 (2.64%) LAN
5 6 (2.64%) VoIP
6 5 (2.20%) BGP
6 5 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.20%) EIGRP
6 5 (2.20%) HSRP
6 5 (2.20%) IPsec
6 5 (2.20%) IPv4
6 5 (2.20%) IPv6
6 5 (2.20%) MPLS
6 5 (2.20%) OSPF
6 5 (2.20%) TACACS
6 5 (2.20%) VLAN
6 5 (2.20%) VPN
6 5 (2.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.85%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.96%) Power BI
6 8 (3.52%) Big Data
7 6 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.20%) Tableau
9 4 (1.76%) QlikView
9 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (1.32%) MySQL
10 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.88%) Redis
11 2 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.52%) GitLab
2 6 (2.64%) Git
3 5 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.20%) JIRA
4 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.44%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.44%) GoCD
6 1 (0.44%) Hudson
6 1 (0.44%) JUnit
6 1 (0.44%) MLflow
6 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 61 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (13.22%) Finance
4 19 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.41%) Banking
7 9 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.64%) Marketing
8 6 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.64%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) German Language
10 4 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) Electronics
11 3 (1.32%) Law
11 3 (1.32%) Legal
12 2 (0.88%) Billing
13 1 (0.44%) Automotive
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (25.99%) Architect
2 49 (21.59%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (16.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (12.33%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (10.57%) Azure Architect
6 19 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.93%) Senior
8 15 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.73%) Developer
11 10 (4.41%) SOC Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Analyst
12 8 (3.52%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Lead
13 7 (3.08%) Administrator
13 7 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.08%) Security Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) DBA
14 6 (2.64%) Network Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.41%) .NET
1 10 (4.41%) Web Services
2 7 (3.08%) Middleware
2 7 (3.08%) REST
3 6 (2.64%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.64%) CSS
4 5 (2.20%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.76%) RESTful
6 3 (1.32%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.32%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.32%) React
7 2 (0.88%) ADO
7 2 (0.88%) Hugging Face
7 2 (0.88%) JSON
7 2 (0.88%) LangChain
7 2 (0.88%) OAuth
7 2 (0.88%) PySpark
7 2 (0.88%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.88%) YAML
8 1 (0.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.13%) Management Information System
2 18 (7.93%) Security Posture
3 13 (5.73%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.64%) IVR
6 6 (2.64%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.20%) Clustering
7 5 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.32%) Grid Computing
9 3 (1.32%) PKI
10 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.88%) IoT
10 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.94%) Windows
2 19 (8.37%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.61%) Linux
4 5 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.76%) Unix
6 3 (1.32%) VMS
6 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.44%) AIX
8 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.19%) DevOps
2 54 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (22.03%) Computer Science
4 47 (20.70%) Migration
5 46 (20.26%) Agile
6 38 (16.74%) Analytics
7 34 (14.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (12.78%) Cloud Security
9 28 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (9.69%) Identity Access Management
10 22 (9.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (9.25%) CI/CD
12 20 (8.81%) ITIL
13 18 (7.93%) TOGAF
14 17 (7.49%) Data Analytics
14 17 (7.49%) Incident Response
14 17 (7.49%) Security Operations
15 16 (7.05%) Project Delivery
16 15 (6.61%) Capacity Planning
16 15 (6.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.15%) SQL
2 38 (16.74%) PowerShell
3 34 (14.98%) Python
4 15 (6.61%) Kusto Query Language
5 12 (5.29%) C#
6 10 (4.41%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.52%) Bicep
8 7 (3.08%) Java
9 4 (1.76%) Bash
9 4 (1.76%) PHP
9 4 (1.76%) Scala
10 3 (1.32%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) VB
11 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (32.60%) Degree
2 49 (21.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (20.70%) Security Cleared
4 44 (19.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (17.18%) SC Cleared
6 37 (16.30%) AWS Certification
7 18 (7.93%) CISSP
8 16 (7.05%) Master's Degree
9 15 (6.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (5.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 12 (5.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (4.41%) DV Cleared
12 10 (4.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (2.64%) CCNP
15 5 (2.20%) CCNA
16 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (1.32%) MCITP
17 3 (1.32%) MCTS
18 2 (0.88%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.20%) GDPR
2 5 (2.20%) HIPAA
2 5 (2.20%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.20%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.32%) NCSC
3 3 (1.32%) PMO
4 2 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (21.15%) Active Directory
2 23 (10.13%) Docker
3 19 (8.37%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (7.49%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.20%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Ceph
8 1 (0.44%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.44%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.44%) XenApp
8 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (20.70%) Terraform
2 30 (13.22%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.41%) Ansible
5 8 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.20%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (1.32%) WSUS
9 2 (0.88%) Grafana
9 2 (0.88%) Nagios
9 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.88%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.44%) Graylog
10 1 (0.44%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.44%) Mesos
10 1 (0.44%) SCCM
10 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (61.67%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.22%) VMware
3 19 (8.37%) Google
4 14 (6.17%) Cisco
5 12 (5.29%) Databricks
6 10 (4.41%) Oracle
7 7 (3.08%) Citrix
7 7 (3.08%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.64%) Avaya
8 6 (2.64%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.64%) Genesys
8 6 (2.64%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.20%) F5
9 5 (2.20%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.32%) SAP
10 3 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.88%) Apple
11 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.88%) Facebook
11 2 (0.88%) Zoho