Azure Certification Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 207 259 286
Rank change year-on-year +52 +27 +87
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 97 86 195
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.98% 0.56% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.51% 2.03% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 46 121
10th Percentile £298 £338 £363
25th Percentile £441 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.95
25th Percentile - - £27.88
Median hourly rate - - £51.50
75th Percentile - - £78.88
90th Percentile - - £93.05
UK median hourly rate - - £51.50
% change year-on-year - - -21.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

Azure Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Certification.

Azure Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Certification.

Azure Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) Apache
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.03%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Maximo
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (43.30%) AWS
3 29 (29.90%) GCP
4 21 (21.65%) Entra ID
5 17 (17.53%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (15.46%) IaaS
7 12 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (9.28%) PaaS
9 8 (8.25%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.15%) Azure API Management
11 5 (5.15%) GitHub
11 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.15%) Route 53
11 5 (5.15%) SaaS
12 4 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.34%) Firewall
2 8 (8.25%) Network Security
3 7 (7.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (7.22%) VPN
4 6 (6.19%) DHCP
4 6 (6.19%) DNS
5 5 (5.15%) LAN
5 5 (5.15%) WAN
6 2 (2.06%) NGFW
6 2 (2.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) Metadata
2 5 (5.15%) Metadata Repository
2 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.12%) Power BI
4 3 (3.09%) Big Data
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.03%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Git
2 3 (3.09%) JIRA
3 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) Hudson
4 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.31%) Finance
4 10 (10.31%) Telecoms
5 9 (9.28%) Legal
6 4 (4.12%) Banking
7 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.06%) French Language
8 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Law
8 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Billing
9 1 (1.03%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (38.14%) Architect
2 14 (14.43%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (13.40%) Consultant
3 13 (13.40%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Security Architect
5 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 8 (8.25%) Lead
6 7 (7.22%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (6.19%) Senior
8 5 (5.15%) Active Directory Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Azure Specialist
8 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Wintel Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) .NET
1 5 (5.15%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.09%) CSS
2 3 (3.09%) HTML
2 3 (3.09%) OAuth
3 2 (2.06%) ADO
3 2 (2.06%) RESTful
3 2 (2.06%) SAML
3 2 (2.06%) XML
4 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.03%) EDI
4 1 (1.03%) JMS
4 1 (1.03%) JSON
4 1 (1.03%) Middleware
4 1 (1.03%) REST
4 1 (1.03%) SOAP
4 1 (1.03%) Spring
4 1 (1.03%) WCF
4 1 (1.03%) Web Services
4 1 (1.03%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.19%) PKI
3 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.15%) NHS
3 5 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.09%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.06%) BYOD
6 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Life Science
6 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.06%) Replication
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.46%) Windows
2 12 (12.37%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.09%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) DevOps
2 29 (29.90%) Computer Science
3 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (20.62%) Cloud Security
5 18 (18.56%) CI/CD
6 17 (17.53%) Migration
7 16 (16.49%) Agile
8 15 (15.46%) RBAC
9 14 (14.43%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (12.37%) Analytics
11 11 (11.34%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.34%) DevSecOps
11 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (10.31%) Incident Response
12 10 (10.31%) Information Security
12 10 (10.31%) Security Operations
13 9 (9.28%) SIEM
14 8 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (8.25%) Data Analytics
14 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.25%) Python
3 6 (6.19%) SQL
4 5 (5.15%) C#
5 3 (3.09%) Bash
5 3 (3.09%) Java
5 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.06%) Bicep
6 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.03%) PHP
7 1 (1.03%) R
7 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (40.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 38 (39.18%) AWS Certification
3 32 (32.99%) Degree
4 28 (28.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (17.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (13.40%) Master's Degree
7 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
7 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
8 8 (8.25%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (5.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (5.15%) CISSP
10 4 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (3.09%) CITP
12 2 (2.06%) CISM
13 1 (1.03%) GIAC
13 1 (1.03%) OCP
13 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
13 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) NIST
4 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.06%) SLA
6 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (20.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.25%) Docker
3 5 (5.15%) vSphere
4 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) Terraform
2 13 (13.40%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) SCCM
5 1 (1.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 71 (73.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.71%) Google
3 6 (6.19%) Databricks
3 6 (6.19%) VMware
4 5 (5.15%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle
6 3 (3.09%) SAP
7 2 (2.06%) New Relic
7 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.06%) Sybase
8 1 (1.03%) Ariba
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco
8 1 (1.03%) Dell
8 1 (1.03%) IFS
8 1 (1.03%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.03%) Qualys
8 1 (1.03%) Remedy
8 1 (1.03%) Snow
8 1 (1.03%) Symantec
8 1 (1.03%) Veeam