Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.47% - 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.77% - 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £450 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £650
75th Percentile £728 - -
90th Percentile £790 - -
South West median daily rate £650 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +6.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 395 405 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.16% 70.43% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 289 387
10th Percentile £418 £381 £413
25th Percentile £519 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £656 £650
90th Percentile £733 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 19
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £55.13
90th Percentile - - £67.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -61.60% +4.80% -3.85%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Wiltshire

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Salisbury - 2 - - 1
Swindon - 2 - - 8
Corsham - 1 £600 - 2
Azure Certification
South West

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
4 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) TOGAF
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
3 3 (42.86%) CISSP
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (28.57%) CISM
4 2 (28.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
5 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk