Azure Certification Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 127 133 164
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 -27
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 8 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.03% 1.90% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 16
10th Percentile £371 £306 £481
25th Percentile £380 £403 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £659 £656
90th Percentile £611 £759 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 773 896 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.69% 29.75% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 588 610
10th Percentile £300 £363 £298
25th Percentile £416 £443 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £689 £675
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 68 58
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.81 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.94 £25.75 £17.13
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% -0.25% +33.67%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £61.73
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.03 £81.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +2 7 £450 -10.00% 17
Cheshire - 1 £625 - 5
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (25.00%) Automotive
1 2 (25.00%) German Language
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
3 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) FinOps
3 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (12.50%) MCSE
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Facebook
2 1 (12.50%) Instagram
2 1 (12.50%) VMware