Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Microsoft Azure Certification
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 23 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 15.97% 8.70% 1.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.33% 20.00% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 1
10th Percentile - £600 -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £730 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £546 £550
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -6.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 30 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 71.53% 43.48% 46.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 19 31
10th Percentile - £254 £413
25th Percentile £525 £506 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £640
90th Percentile £738 £706 £660
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £73.45 - £28.70
25th Percentile £74.88 £15.22 £45.13
Median hourly rate £78.50 £17.16 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +357.46% -77.12% -
75th Percentile £80.88 £18.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.55 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.58 £30.75 £34.75
% change year-on-year -23.33% -11.51% +82.89%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Worcestershire

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Malvern -9 23 £650 -7.14%
Worcester -1 18 £600 -14.29%
Azure Certification
West Midlands

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (43.48%) GitHub
4 6 (26.09%) Azure Stack
4 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
5 5 (21.74%) AWS
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (52.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) Git
General
1 2 (8.70%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Senior
2 12 (52.17%) Data Engineer
2 12 (52.17%) Senior Data Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) IT Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior IT Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Kafka
1 12 (52.17%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
1 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Batch Processing
1 12 (52.17%) Data Engineering
1 12 (52.17%) Data Pipeline
1 12 (52.17%) DataOps
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
1 12 (52.17%) ETL
2 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
3 10 (43.48%) Data Architecture
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Cloud Security
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (17.39%) Change Control
7 1 (4.35%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Go
1 12 (52.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) SC Cleared
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) Network+ Certification
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
3 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle