Azure Certification Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 104 116 164
Rank change year-on-year +12 +48 -44
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 12 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 0.73% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.94% 2.70% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 9
10th Percentile £365 £313 £427
25th Percentile £447 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £632 £600 £613
90th Percentile £647 £660 £655
England median daily rate £506 £550 £603
% change year-on-year -7.95% -8.71% +20.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 618 630 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.31% 27.16% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 383 491
10th Percentile £275 £300 £275
25th Percentile £359 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £563
90th Percentile £682 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £13.31 £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +9.95% +5.88%
75th Percentile £43.44 £27.54 £20.26
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.51
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +9 4 £600 - 9
Warwickshire +7 2 £300 -60.00%
Coventry +11 1 £450 +20.00%
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Hudson
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) German Language
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) API Management
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (25.00%) SIEM
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Time Management
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) CISSP
4 3 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (8.33%) CCNP
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (8.33%) Zscaler