Azure Certification Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 320 346
Rank change year-on-year +26 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 106 174 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.66% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.51% 3.06% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 117 165
10th Percentile £322 £408 £422
25th Percentile £425 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -13.46% +27.45%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £758
90th Percentile £750 £760 £800
England median daily rate £506 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -7.95% -10.20% +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
England median hourly rate - £51.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,228 5,692 6,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.91% 21.67% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,871 3,849 4,521
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 80 147
10th Percentile £14.21 £19.94 £22.16
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £48.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% +9.55% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £65.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.35 £84.13 £66.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -0.79%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +37 21 £538 -10.42% 19
South London +8 1 - - 12
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.89%) IIS
5 1 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.94%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (5.66%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (33.96%) AWS
3 23 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (16.98%) Entra ID
6 15 (14.15%) IaaS
7 13 (12.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (10.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (10.38%) Power Platform
9 9 (8.49%) PaaS
10 8 (7.55%) GCP
11 7 (6.60%) Serverless
12 6 (5.66%) GitHub
12 6 (5.66%) Mimecast
13 5 (4.72%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (4.72%) OCI
14 4 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (3.77%) Azure Functions
14 4 (3.77%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.21%) Firewall
2 9 (8.49%) DNS
3 8 (7.55%) DHCP
4 5 (4.72%) BGP
4 5 (4.72%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (4.72%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (4.72%) EIGRP
4 5 (4.72%) HSRP
4 5 (4.72%) IPsec
4 5 (4.72%) IPv4
4 5 (4.72%) IPv6
4 5 (4.72%) LAN
4 5 (4.72%) MPLS
4 5 (4.72%) OSPF
4 5 (4.72%) TACACS
4 5 (4.72%) VLAN
4 5 (4.72%) VXLAN
4 5 (4.72%) Wireless
5 2 (1.89%) CTI
5 2 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (6.60%) Big Data
3 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.72%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.77%) Power BI
5 4 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.89%) MySQL
7 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.89%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) GitLab
2 4 (3.77%) JIRA
3 2 (1.89%) Git
3 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.94%) GoCD
4 1 (0.94%) MLflow
4 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 36 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.15%) Finance
3 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.49%) Banking
5 7 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Law
8 2 (1.89%) Marketing
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.94%) Billing
9 1 (0.94%) German Language
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (25.47%) Cloud Engineer
2 24 (22.64%) Architect
2 24 (22.64%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (10.38%) Azure Architect
4 10 (9.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Senior
5 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Developer
6 7 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.72%) Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Lead
7 5 (4.72%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Administrator
8 4 (3.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) DBA
8 4 (3.77%) Integration Architect
8 4 (3.77%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) .NET
2 5 (4.72%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.83%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.83%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.83%) Middleware
3 3 (2.83%) Web Services
4 2 (1.89%) OAuth
4 2 (1.89%) PySpark
4 2 (1.89%) React
4 2 (1.89%) REST
4 2 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (0.94%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.94%) BentoML
5 1 (0.94%) Node.js
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.94%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.94%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.94%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.72%) Clustering
3 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.83%) Grid Computing
4 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.89%) IVR
5 2 (1.89%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Tandem
6 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.94%) IoT
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.64%) Windows
2 7 (6.60%) Linux
3 6 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.08%) DevOps
2 22 (20.75%) Migration
3 21 (19.81%) Computer Science
4 19 (17.92%) Agile
4 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.26%) Analytics
6 13 (12.26%) ITIL
7 10 (9.43%) CI/CD
7 10 (9.43%) Cost Optimisation
7 10 (9.43%) TOGAF
8 8 (7.55%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (7.55%) DevSecOps
8 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (7.55%) Project Delivery
9 7 (6.60%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (6.60%) Data Migration
9 7 (6.60%) Data Modelling
9 7 (6.60%) High Availability
9 7 (6.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.81%) SQL
2 18 (16.98%) PowerShell
3 17 (16.04%) Python
4 6 (5.66%) C#
5 5 (4.72%) Bicep
5 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.77%) Scala
7 2 (1.89%) Java
8 1 (0.94%) Bash
8 1 (0.94%) Groovy
8 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (26.42%) Degree
2 19 (17.92%) AWS Certification
3 17 (16.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (12.26%) Security Cleared
6 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
7 9 (8.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (4.72%) CCNA
10 5 (4.72%) CCNP
10 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
10 5 (4.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (3.77%) CISSP
12 3 (2.83%) MCITP
12 3 (2.83%) MCTS
13 2 (1.89%) MBA
14 1 (0.94%) CISA
14 1 (0.94%) CISM
14 1 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) GDPR
1 3 (2.83%) PMO
2 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (19.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.32%) Docker
2 12 (11.32%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) Ceph
4 1 (0.94%) NFS
4 1 (0.94%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.94%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.94%) vSphere
4 1 (0.94%) XenApp
4 1 (0.94%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (30.19%) Terraform
2 17 (16.04%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.66%) Ansible
5 5 (4.72%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.89%) Puppet
7 2 (1.89%) WSUS
8 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.94%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.94%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.94%) Mesos
8 1 (0.94%) Nagios
8 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (63.21%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.92%) VMware
3 10 (9.43%) Databricks
4 8 (7.55%) Cisco
4 8 (7.55%) Google
5 7 (6.60%) SolarWinds
6 6 (5.66%) Citrix
7 5 (4.72%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.72%) F5
7 5 (4.72%) Infoblox
7 5 (4.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.77%) Oracle
9 2 (1.89%) Avaya
9 2 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.89%) Genesys
9 2 (1.89%) Zoho
10 1 (0.94%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.94%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.94%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow