Azure Certification Contracts

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 357 398
Rank change year-on-year +7 +41 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 238 370 568
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.66% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% 2.43% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 248 369
10th Percentile £335 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £472 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £635 £661 £688
90th Percentile £718 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £8.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -87.88% -1.27%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -21 192 £513 -6.82% 179
London +46 122 £525 -4.55% 64
Work from Home +24 92 £513 -6.82% 108
UK excluding London -21 73 £500 -6.98% 112
South East -5 20 £463 -20.43% 22
North of England +12 16 £463 -7.50% 36
Midlands +12 13 £594 +39.71% 21
Scotland +39 11 £513 - 6
South West -14 11 £575 +4.55% 13
West Midlands +6 10 £563 +32.35% 9
North West +10 8 £475 -5.00% 21
Yorkshire +17 7 £450 -8.63% 7
East Midlands +11 3 £606 +51.56% 12
East of England -2 1 £475 +2.70% 13
North East - 1 £500 - 8
Wales - 1 £643 - 1

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.26%) Apache
4 3 (1.26%) IIS
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (4.20%) Chatbot
1 10 (4.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 238 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (31.09%) AWS
3 47 (19.75%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (19.33%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (16.81%) Entra ID
6 34 (14.29%) IaaS
7 26 (10.92%) GCP
8 25 (10.50%) Power Platform
9 22 (9.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (7.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (7.98%) PaaS
12 13 (5.46%) Serverless
13 12 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (4.20%) Power Automate
14 10 (4.20%) PowerApps
15 9 (3.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.71%) Firewall
2 17 (7.14%) Network Security
3 13 (5.46%) DNS
4 9 (3.78%) CTI
4 9 (3.78%) VoIP
5 8 (3.36%) DHCP
5 8 (3.36%) LAN
6 5 (2.10%) BGP
6 5 (2.10%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (2.10%) EIGRP
6 5 (2.10%) HSRP
6 5 (2.10%) IPsec
6 5 (2.10%) IPv4
6 5 (2.10%) IPv6
6 5 (2.10%) MPLS
6 5 (2.10%) OSPF
6 5 (2.10%) TACACS
6 5 (2.10%) VLAN
6 5 (2.10%) VPN
6 5 (2.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (6.72%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.62%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.20%) Big Data
6 9 (3.78%) Power BI
7 6 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.68%) MySQL
8 4 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.68%) Tableau
9 3 (1.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.26%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (1.26%) QlikView
9 3 (1.26%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (3.78%) GitLab
2 6 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.52%) JIRA
3 3 (1.26%) Git
3 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.84%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.42%) GoCD
5 1 (0.42%) Hudson
5 1 (0.42%) JUnit
5 1 (0.42%) MLflow
5 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 69 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.13%) Finance
3 31 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.30%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.20%) Banking
7 9 (3.78%) Retail
8 8 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.10%) German Language
11 5 (2.10%) Marketing
12 3 (1.26%) Electronics
12 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.26%) Legal
13 2 (0.84%) Automotive
13 2 (0.84%) Billing
13 2 (0.84%) Law
14 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.47%) Architect
2 49 (20.59%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (15.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (12.61%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.92%) Azure Architect
6 24 (10.08%) Senior
7 18 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.88%) Developer
10 13 (5.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.78%) Analyst
11 9 (3.78%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.36%) Lead
13 7 (2.94%) Administrator
13 7 (2.94%) Consultant
13 7 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
14 6 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.52%) Network Engineer
14 6 (2.52%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 13 (5.46%) Web Services
3 10 (4.20%) .NET
3 10 (4.20%) Middleware
4 9 (3.78%) REST
5 7 (2.94%) CSS
6 5 (2.10%) 802.1X
6 5 (2.10%) RESTful
7 3 (1.26%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.26%) PySpark
7 3 (1.26%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.26%) React
7 3 (1.26%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.84%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.84%) JSON
8 2 (0.84%) LangChain
8 2 (0.84%) LDAP
8 2 (0.84%) OAuth
8 2 (0.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.66%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.04%) Security Posture
3 9 (3.78%) IVR
3 9 (3.78%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.36%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.36%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.10%) Clustering
7 4 (1.68%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.26%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.26%) PKI
8 3 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.84%) Replication
9 2 (0.84%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.33%) Windows
2 20 (8.40%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.30%) Linux
4 5 (2.10%) VMS
4 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.68%) Unix
6 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.51%) DevOps
2 58 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.27%) Agile
4 51 (21.43%) Migration
5 50 (21.01%) Computer Science
6 39 (16.39%) Analytics
7 34 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (13.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (12.18%) CI/CD
10 22 (9.24%) Cloud Security
11 21 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (8.40%) Containerisation
13 18 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence
13 18 (7.56%) Capacity Planning
13 18 (7.56%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (7.56%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (7.56%) Project Delivery
14 15 (6.30%) ITIL
14 15 (6.30%) Load Balancing
14 15 (6.30%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.43%) SQL
2 36 (15.13%) PowerShell
3 35 (14.71%) Python
4 11 (4.62%) Bicep
4 11 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.20%) C#
5 10 (4.20%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.52%) Bash
6 6 (2.52%) Java
7 5 (2.10%) Scala
8 4 (1.68%) PHP
8 4 (1.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.42%) Go
9 1 (0.42%) Groovy
9 1 (0.42%) R
9 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 77 (32.35%) Degree
2 49 (20.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 48 (20.17%) Security Cleared
4 40 (16.81%) AWS Certification
4 40 (16.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (15.97%) SC Cleared
6 19 (7.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (7.98%) Master's Degree
7 14 (5.88%) CISSP
8 13 (5.46%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (4.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 10 (4.20%) DV Cleared
11 8 (3.36%) CCNP
11 8 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (2.10%) CCNA
14 3 (1.26%) MCITP
14 3 (1.26%) MCTS
15 2 (0.84%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.20%) GDPR
2 9 (3.78%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.36%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.36%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.26%) NCSC
5 3 (1.26%) NIST
5 3 (1.26%) PMO
6 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.42%) COBIT
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 49 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 31 (13.03%) Docker
3 21 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 13 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.10%) vSphere
8 2 (0.84%) XenApp
8 2 (0.84%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.42%) Ceph
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.42%) NFS
9 1 (0.42%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.42%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (21.85%) Terraform
2 37 (15.55%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.04%) Ansible
5 8 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.10%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (1.26%) Grafana
7 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.26%) Puppet
8 2 (0.84%) Nagios
8 2 (0.84%) WSUS
9 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.42%) Graylog
9 1 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.42%) Mesos
9 1 (0.42%) Salt
9 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.45%) VMware
3 23 (9.66%) Google
4 19 (7.98%) Cisco
5 13 (5.46%) Databricks
6 12 (5.04%) Oracle
7 9 (3.78%) Avaya
7 9 (3.78%) Genesys
8 8 (3.36%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.94%) Citrix
9 7 (2.94%) F5
9 7 (2.94%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.52%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.10%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.68%) CA
13 3 (1.26%) SAP
13 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.26%) Zscaler
14 2 (0.84%) Checkmarx
14 2 (0.84%) Instagram