Azure Certification Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 86 96 120
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +43
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 11 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.77% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.65% 2.34% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 7
10th Percentile £371 £376 £313
25th Percentile £403 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £615 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.45% +44.71% -24.44%
75th Percentile £647 £626 £600
90th Percentile £683 £635 £660
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 415 641 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.86% 32.92% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 406 394
10th Percentile £150 £269 £313
25th Percentile £293 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £450 £528
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 27
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £11.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.16 £13.31
Median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%
75th Percentile £41.97 £49.38 £24.16
90th Percentile £59.40 £58.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +16 4 £483 -3.38% 8
Warwickshire +3 2 - - 4
Coventry +8 1 £375 -16.67% 6
Solihull - 1 £375 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £700 - 1
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Flink
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Rocky
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Security
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) GIAC
3 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam
3 1 (9.09%) VMware