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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 115 164
Rank change year-on-year +20 +49 -42
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 11 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.71% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.81% 2.66% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £338 £313 £440
25th Percentile £388 £363 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -26.09% +6.48%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £622
90th Percentile £647 £660 £679
England median daily rate £506 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.95% -8.33% +20.00%

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 608 601 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.14% 26.71% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 363 499
10th Percentile £275 £313 £274
25th Percentile £360 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £536 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +12.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £686 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.25
25th Percentile £21.44 £13.31 £13.25
Median hourly rate £27.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +39.74% +12.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £43.44 £28.75 £20.26
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.93
% change year-on-year -23.81% +28.28% +8.71%

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 17 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 17 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 +7 3 £600 - 12
Warwickshire +7 2 £300 -60.00% 1
Coventry +8 1 £450 +20.00%
Solihull - 1 £345 -
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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Hudson
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) German Language
3 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) API Management
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Bicep
2 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) CISSP
4 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (9.09%) CCNP
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) Zscaler