Azure Certification Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 175 218
Rank change year-on-year -6 +43 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 20 36 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.35% 0.64% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.79% 1.73% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 30
10th Percentile £263 £412 £344
25th Percentile £398 £513 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £581 £519
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +12.05% +6.41%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £611
90th Percentile £590 £688 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,524 2,081 2,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.70% 36.71% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,343 1,574
10th Percentile £350 £300 £307
25th Percentile £450 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £731 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 134 83
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £30.21 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.32 £57.21
90th Percentile £87.46 £76.62 £67.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the South East

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the South East

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the South East

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +10 8 £475 -19.76% 7
Buckinghamshire +26 4 £370 -37.02% 6
Hampshire -4 4 £550 -1.61% 1
Berkshire -15 4 £488 -25.00% 1
Middlesex - 4 £275 -
West Sussex - 4 £481 - 1
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (25.00%) IaaS
6 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (15.00%) PaaS
6 3 (15.00%) SaaS
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) 4G
4 1 (5.00%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.00%) OpenID
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) PKI
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) API Management
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (15.00%) High Availability
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Key Management
4 3 (15.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (15.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Ruby
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (5.00%) CCSP
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) COBIT
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (15.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow