Azure Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 257 279 373
Rank change year-on-year +22 +94 -88
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 92 187 268
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.77% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.40% 3.06% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 120 197
10th Percentile £324 £396 £413
25th Percentile £381 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -6.78% +18.00%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £661
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +20.00%
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 median hourly rate - £8.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -87.88% -1.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,834 6,121 8,866
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.18% 25.25% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,485 4,161 6,297
10th Percentile £335 £380 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.75%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 247 220
10th Percentile £15.46 £18.80 £19.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.81 £70.00 £65.66
90th Percentile £84.13 £80.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

Azure Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification.

Azure Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Azure Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification.

Azure Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.17%) IIS
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Confluence
4 1 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (33.70%) AWS
3 19 (20.65%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (17.39%) Entra ID
6 14 (15.22%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (14.13%) GCP
7 13 (14.13%) IaaS
8 11 (11.96%) Power Platform
9 10 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (9.78%) PaaS
11 8 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (7.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (7.61%) Power Automate
12 7 (7.61%) PowerApps
13 6 (6.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (5.43%) Serverless
14 5 (5.43%) Twilio
15 4 (4.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.78%) Firewall
2 5 (5.43%) CTI
2 5 (5.43%) Network Security
2 5 (5.43%) VoIP
3 3 (3.26%) LAN
3 3 (3.26%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.26%) WAN
4 2 (2.17%) SSL
4 2 (2.17%) VPN
4 2 (2.17%) WLAN
5 1 (1.09%) 4G
5 1 (1.09%) 5G
5 1 (1.09%) DNS
5 1 (1.09%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.09%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.52%) Big Data
2 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.35%) Power BI
4 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.26%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.26%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.09%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Finance
3 11 (11.96%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Retail
6 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Electronics
6 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.26%) Marketing
7 2 (2.17%) Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Billing
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Architect
2 20 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (7.61%) Azure Architect
4 7 (7.61%) Developer
4 7 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.52%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Specialist
6 5 (5.43%) Consultant
6 5 (5.43%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) AWS Specialist
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Administrator
8 3 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) Middleware
1 6 (6.52%) Web Services
2 5 (5.43%) .NET
2 5 (5.43%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.26%) CSS
3 3 (3.26%) PySpark
3 3 (3.26%) REST
3 3 (3.26%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.17%) Hugging Face
4 2 (2.17%) LangChain
4 2 (2.17%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.17%) RESTful
5 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.09%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.09%) JSON
5 1 (1.09%) Node.js
5 1 (1.09%) OAuth
5 1 (1.09%) React
5 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.43%) IVR
3 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.26%) PKI
5 2 (2.17%) Clustering
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.17%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.17%) Tandem
6 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) FMCG
6 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.09%) IoT
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Windows
2 2 (2.17%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Unix
2 2 (2.17%) VMS
2 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.78%) DevOps
2 19 (20.65%) Migration
3 18 (19.57%) Agile
4 15 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (11.96%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (10.87%) Analytics
8 9 (9.78%) Containerisation
8 9 (9.78%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (9.78%) DevSecOps
8 9 (9.78%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (7.61%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (7.61%) Data Engineering
10 7 (7.61%) Service Delivery
11 6 (6.52%) Cost Control
11 6 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.91%) SQL
2 15 (16.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.78%) Python
4 5 (5.43%) C#
4 5 (5.43%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.43%) Scala
5 4 (4.35%) Bicep
6 3 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.17%) Bash
7 2 (2.17%) PHP
8 1 (1.09%) Java
8 1 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (21.74%) Degree
2 19 (20.65%) AWS Certification
3 18 (19.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
5 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
6 10 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (7.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.43%) Master's Degree
10 4 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.26%) DV Cleared
11 3 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (2.17%) CCIE
12 2 (2.17%) CCNP
12 2 (2.17%) CISSP
13 1 (1.09%) CCSP
13 1 (1.09%) MCSA
13 1 (1.09%) MCSE
13 1 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) GDPR
2 4 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.35%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
4 1 (1.09%) COBIT
4 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 15 (16.30%) Docker
3 10 (10.87%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.09%) vSphere
7 1 (1.09%) XenApp
7 1 (1.09%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (22.83%) Terraform
2 16 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.17%) Ansible
4 2 (2.17%) Nagios
4 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.17%) WSUS
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Graylog
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (61.96%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.48%) VMware
3 9 (9.78%) Cisco
4 8 (8.70%) Databricks
4 8 (8.70%) Oracle
5 6 (6.52%) Citrix
6 5 (5.43%) Avaya
6 5 (5.43%) Genesys
6 5 (5.43%) Google
7 3 (3.26%) SAP
7 3 (3.26%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.17%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.17%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.17%) F5
8 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.09%) CA
9 1 (1.09%) Facebook
9 1 (1.09%) IronPort
9 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.09%) Splunk