Azure Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 357 396
Rank change year-on-year -17 +39 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 179 322 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.66% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.57% 2.38% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 210 283
10th Percentile £327 £362 £421
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -10.20% +22.50%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £700
90th Percentile £737 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £51.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -21.97% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,420 13,530 15,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.07% 27.63% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,032 9,064 10,005
10th Percentile £313 £335 £320
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 980 713 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.22 £18.76
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +4.77%
75th Percentile £61.82 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +32 108 £538 -4.44% 113
South East +9 19 £456 -18.13% 46
North of England +23 16 £450 -10.00% 56
Midlands +17 15 £600 +41.18% 46
West Midlands +13 12 £600 +41.18% 25
South West +1 9 £575 +4.55% 24
North West +11 8 £450 -6.49% 30
Yorkshire +19 7 £450 -11.76% 20
East Midlands +21 3 £606 +51.56% 21
East of England +6 1 £475 +1.33% 19
North East - 1 £500 - 7
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.12%) Confluence
4 2 (1.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.59%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (30.17%) AWS
3 44 (24.58%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (17.32%) Entra ID
4 31 (17.32%) IaaS
5 29 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (11.17%) Power Platform
7 17 (9.50%) PaaS
8 16 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.70%) GCP
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (5.03%) Serverless
12 8 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (4.47%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.47%) PowerApps
13 7 (3.91%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.53%) Firewall
2 11 (6.15%) DNS
3 9 (5.03%) Network Security
4 8 (4.47%) DHCP
5 5 (2.79%) BGP
5 5 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (2.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (2.79%) EIGRP
5 5 (2.79%) HSRP
5 5 (2.79%) IPsec
5 5 (2.79%) IPv4
5 5 (2.79%) IPv6
5 5 (2.79%) LAN
5 5 (2.79%) MPLS
5 5 (2.79%) OSPF
5 5 (2.79%) TACACS
5 5 (2.79%) VLAN
5 5 (2.79%) VXLAN
5 5 (2.79%) Wireless
6 4 (2.23%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.91%) Big Data
4 7 (3.91%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.79%) Power BI
6 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.12%) MySQL
8 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.12%) Redis
8 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (4.47%) GitLab
2 5 (2.79%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.79%) JIRA
3 3 (1.68%) Git
3 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.56%) GoCD
4 1 (0.56%) Hudson
4 1 (0.56%) MLflow
4 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 50 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.08%) Finance
3 23 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.03%) Banking
5 9 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) German Language
8 5 (2.79%) Marketing
9 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.23%) Retail
10 3 (1.68%) Law
10 3 (1.68%) Legal
11 2 (1.12%) Billing
11 2 (1.12%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
12 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (25.14%) Architect
2 40 (22.35%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (20.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (11.17%) Azure Architect
5 17 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (9.50%) Senior
6 16 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (7.26%) Developer
8 11 (6.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Analyst
9 8 (4.47%) Lead
10 7 (3.91%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Integration Architect
12 5 (2.79%) Security Architect
12 5 (2.79%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.03%) .NET
2 8 (4.47%) REST
2 8 (4.47%) Web Services
3 6 (3.35%) CSS
4 5 (2.79%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.79%) Middleware
5 4 (2.23%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.68%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.12%) ADO
7 2 (1.12%) JSON
7 2 (1.12%) OAuth
7 2 (1.12%) OpenID
7 2 (1.12%) PySpark
7 2 (1.12%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.12%) React
7 2 (1.12%) RESTful
7 2 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (1.12%) YAML
8 1 (0.56%) BentoML
8 1 (0.56%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.03%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.91%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.79%) Clustering
4 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.23%) IVR
5 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.68%) Grid Computing
6 3 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.12%) IoT
7 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.12%) PKI
7 2 (1.12%) Replication
7 2 (1.12%) Tandem
8 1 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.91%) Windows
2 17 (9.50%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.82%) Linux
4 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.68%) VMS
5 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) AIX
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.05%) DevOps
2 39 (21.79%) Migration
3 32 (17.88%) Agile
3 32 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (17.32%) Computer Science
4 31 (17.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (11.73%) Analytics
6 18 (10.06%) ITIL
7 16 (8.94%) CI/CD
8 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (8.38%) TOGAF
9 14 (7.82%) Cloud Security
9 14 (7.82%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (7.82%) Project Delivery
10 12 (6.70%) API Management
10 12 (6.70%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (6.15%) Cost Optimisation
11 11 (6.15%) Data Migration
11 11 (6.15%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.67%) SQL
2 30 (16.76%) PowerShell
2 30 (16.76%) Python
3 10 (5.59%) C#
3 10 (5.59%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.47%) Bicep
5 6 (3.35%) Java
6 5 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.23%) Scala
8 3 (1.68%) Bash
8 3 (1.68%) PHP
8 3 (1.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.56%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) R
9 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (28.49%) Degree
2 36 (20.11%) Security Cleared
3 32 (17.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (16.20%) AWS Certification
4 29 (16.20%) SC Cleared
5 25 (13.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (7.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.03%) CISSP
7 9 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 9 (5.03%) Master's Degree
8 8 (4.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.35%) CCNP
9 6 (3.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (2.79%) CCNA
11 4 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.68%) MCITP
12 3 (1.68%) MCTS
13 2 (1.12%) CISM
13 2 (1.12%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) GDPR
2 4 (2.23%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.23%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.23%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.68%) PMO
4 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (20.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.17%) Docker
3 17 (9.50%) Hyper-V
4 16 (8.94%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.23%) vSphere
8 2 (1.12%) XenApp
8 2 (1.12%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.56%) Ceph
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.56%) NFS
9 1 (0.56%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.56%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 38 (21.23%) Terraform
2 27 (15.08%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.47%) Ansible
4 8 (4.47%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.79%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.12%) Puppet
7 2 (1.12%) WSUS
8 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.56%) Grafana
8 1 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.56%) Mesos
8 1 (0.56%) Nagios
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (60.34%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.20%) VMware
3 12 (6.70%) Google
4 11 (6.15%) Cisco
4 11 (6.15%) Databricks
5 7 (3.91%) Citrix
5 7 (3.91%) SolarWinds
6 6 (3.35%) CheckPoint
6 6 (3.35%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.79%) F5
7 5 (2.79%) Infoblox
8 4 (2.23%) Avaya
8 4 (2.23%) Genesys
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle
9 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.12%) Facebook
10 2 (1.12%) Instagram
10 2 (1.12%) SAP
10 2 (1.12%) Zoho