Azure Certification Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 129 149
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 7 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.60% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.66% 1.75% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 15
10th Percentile £394 £485 £413
25th Percentile £430 £543 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +17.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £491 £594 £568
90th Percentile £496 £670 £650
South East median daily rate £456 £557 £525
% change year-on-year -18.13% +6.15% +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,055 974 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.22% 34.25% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 636 708
10th Percentile £234 £319 £274
25th Percentile £416 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £678 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 46 28
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £32.35 £18.32
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.39 £74.95 £53.50
90th Percentile £87.00 £80.25 £80.81
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Buckinghamshire +20 4 £370 -37.02% 9
Berkshire -10 3 £475 -12.52% 4
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure API Management
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Event Grid
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) IaaS
3 3 (42.86%) PaaS
3 3 (42.86%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Affinity Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (42.86%) Cryptography
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITSM
1 3 (42.86%) Key Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Target Operating Model
1 3 (42.86%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Apple
4 1 (14.29%) Databricks