Azure Certification Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 178 209
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -42
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 16 24 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.44% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.37% 1.81% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 34
10th Percentile £376 £319 £391
25th Percentile £414 £403 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% +17.96%
75th Percentile £544 £589 £669
90th Percentile £600 £725 £730
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,172 1,324 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.19% 24.33% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 908 1,037
10th Percentile £302 £325 £206
25th Percentile £413 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £591
90th Percentile £694 £700 £671
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 75 70
10th Percentile £10.95 £18.95 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £25.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% +29.03% +40.91%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £57.53
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.95 £75.60
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +6 8 £475 -5.00% 33
Yorkshire +14 7 £450 -11.76% 19
North East - 1 £500 - 11
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Automotive
2 2 (12.50%) German Language
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Deployment Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) API Management
4 2 (12.50%) CRM
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Release Management
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 2 (12.50%) Time Management
4 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 1 (6.25%) Architectural Design
5 1 (6.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Facebook
2 1 (6.25%) Instagram
2 1 (6.25%) VMware