Azure Certification Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 139 146
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 9 28 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.79% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 1.51% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 9
10th Percentile £493 £323 £463
25th Percentile £500 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 - £661
90th Percentile £660 £695 £664
England median daily rate £506 £550 £603
% change year-on-year -7.95% -8.71% +20.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,785 1,857 1,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.08% 52.38% 40.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,373 1,046
10th Percentile £353 £400 £325
25th Percentile £465 £477 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £522
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +11.03% +9.79%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £729 £680
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 143 87
10th Percentile £22.31 £37.91 £43.13
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.77 £52.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +2.36% +41.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £68.68
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.00 £75.40
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +4.50%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the South West

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the South West

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the South West

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Gloucestershire +5 8 £600 +45.45% 1
Bristol +4 1 £500 -6.98% 8
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (55.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (55.56%) Power Automate
2 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
2 5 (55.56%) PowerApps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Applications Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Power Apps Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Management
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft