Azure Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 354 337 411
Rank change year-on-year -17 +74 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 197 329 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.70% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.72% 2.56% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 224 283
10th Percentile £313 £363 £408
25th Percentile £404 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £700
90th Percentile £698 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £8.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £8.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -87.88% -1.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,463 12,852 15,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.32% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 8,593 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 655 691
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +34 127 £525 -4.55% 122
South East -1 20 £463 -20.43% 34
North of England +9 16 £463 -7.50% 63
Midlands +6 13 £594 +39.71% 40
South West -18 11 £575 +4.55% 19
West Midlands +10 10 £563 +32.35% 18
North West +6 8 £475 -5.00% 33
Yorkshire +14 7 £450 -11.76% 19
East Midlands +6 3 £606 +51.56% 22
East of England -2 1 £475 +2.70% 16
North East - 1 £500 - 11
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.52%) Apache
4 3 (1.52%) IIS
5 2 (1.02%) Confluence
6 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.08%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (100.00%) Azure
2 52 (26.40%) AWS
3 44 (22.34%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (21.32%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (16.75%) Entra ID
6 32 (16.24%) IaaS
7 23 (11.68%) Power Platform
8 20 (10.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 20 (10.15%) PaaS
9 15 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (7.11%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (7.11%) GCP
11 11 (5.58%) Serverless
12 10 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (5.08%) Power Automate
12 10 (5.08%) PowerApps
13 9 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (4.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (4.06%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.69%) Firewall
2 12 (6.09%) DNS
3 8 (4.06%) DHCP
3 8 (4.06%) Network Security
4 5 (2.54%) BGP
4 5 (2.54%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (2.54%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (2.54%) EIGRP
4 5 (2.54%) HSRP
4 5 (2.54%) IPsec
4 5 (2.54%) IPv4
4 5 (2.54%) IPv6
4 5 (2.54%) LAN
4 5 (2.54%) MPLS
4 5 (2.54%) OSPF
4 5 (2.54%) TACACS
4 5 (2.54%) VLAN
4 5 (2.54%) VXLAN
4 5 (2.54%) Wireless
5 4 (2.03%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (6.60%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.58%) Big Data
5 10 (5.08%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.55%) Power BI
7 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.52%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (1.52%) MySQL
8 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.52%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.02%) Redis
9 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.57%) GitLab
2 6 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.05%) JIRA
3 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.02%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.02%) Git
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) GoCD
5 1 (0.51%) Hudson
5 1 (0.51%) MLflow
5 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 62 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.75%) Finance
3 27 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.11%) Banking
5 13 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.57%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.54%) German Language
10 4 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.03%) Marketing
10 4 (2.03%) Retail
11 3 (1.52%) Legal
12 2 (1.02%) Automotive
12 2 (1.02%) Billing
12 2 (1.02%) Electronics
12 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 48 (24.37%) Architect
2 43 (21.83%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (18.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (11.68%) Azure Architect
5 20 (10.15%) Senior
6 18 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.63%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.60%) Developer
8 13 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.08%) Analyst
11 9 (4.57%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.57%) Lead
12 7 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.55%) Power Platform Developer
13 6 (3.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.05%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.05%) Security Architect
14 5 (2.54%) Azure Specialist
14 5 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.60%) ARM Templates
2 9 (4.57%) .NET
2 9 (4.57%) REST
3 8 (4.06%) Web Services
4 7 (3.55%) CSS
5 5 (2.54%) 802.1X
5 5 (2.54%) Middleware
5 5 (2.54%) PySpark
6 3 (1.52%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.52%) RESTful
6 3 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (1.02%) JSON
7 2 (1.02%) LDAP
7 2 (1.02%) OAuth
7 2 (1.02%) OpenID
7 2 (1.02%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.02%) React
7 2 (1.02%) YAML
8 1 (0.51%) Anaconda
8 1 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.06%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.54%) Clustering
6 4 (2.03%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.03%) IVR
7 3 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.52%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.52%) PKI
7 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.52%) Tandem
8 2 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.02%) Replication
8 2 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 45 (22.84%) Windows
2 19 (9.64%) Windows Server
3 13 (6.60%) Linux
4 5 (2.54%) VMS
4 5 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.02%) Unix
6 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.51%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.98%) DevOps
2 47 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.84%) Migration
4 42 (21.32%) Agile
5 39 (19.80%) Computer Science
6 32 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 31 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (14.21%) CI/CD
9 27 (13.71%) Analytics
10 18 (9.14%) Containerisation
11 16 (8.12%) ITIL
11 16 (8.12%) Project Delivery
12 13 (6.60%) API Management
12 13 (6.60%) Cloud Security
12 13 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.60%) Data Modelling
12 13 (6.60%) Microservices
13 12 (6.09%) Data Architecture
13 12 (6.09%) Data Engineering
13 12 (6.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 44 (22.34%) SQL
2 34 (17.26%) Python
3 32 (16.24%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.58%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.08%) Bicep
6 9 (4.57%) C#
7 6 (3.05%) Bash
8 5 (2.54%) Java
8 5 (2.54%) Scala
9 4 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.03%) Ruby
10 3 (1.52%) PHP
11 1 (0.51%) Go
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (32.49%) Degree
2 47 (23.86%) Security Cleared
3 38 (19.29%) SC Cleared
4 36 (18.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (14.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (13.71%) AWS Certification
7 15 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (6.09%) Master's Degree
9 10 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (5.08%) DV Cleared
10 8 (4.06%) CISSP
11 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (3.05%) CCNP
13 5 (2.54%) CCNA
14 4 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (1.52%) MCITP
15 3 (1.52%) MCTS
16 2 (1.02%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.05%) GDPR
2 5 (2.54%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.03%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.03%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.52%) PMO
5 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (21.32%) Active Directory
2 28 (14.21%) Docker
3 20 (10.15%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (7.61%) Hyper-V
5 12 (6.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.03%) vSphere
8 2 (1.02%) XenApp
8 2 (1.02%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.51%) Ceph
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.51%) NFS
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 49 (24.87%) Terraform
2 35 (17.77%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.58%) Ansible
5 9 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.54%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.02%) Grafana
8 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.02%) Puppet
8 2 (1.02%) WSUS
9 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.51%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.51%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.51%) Mesos
9 1 (0.51%) Nagios
9 1 (0.51%) Salt
9 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (58.38%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.72%) VMware
3 16 (8.12%) Google
4 13 (6.60%) Databricks
5 11 (5.58%) Cisco
6 7 (3.55%) SolarWinds
7 6 (3.05%) CheckPoint
7 6 (3.05%) Citrix
7 6 (3.05%) Oracle
7 6 (3.05%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.54%) F5
8 5 (2.54%) Infoblox
9 4 (2.03%) Avaya
9 4 (2.03%) CA
9 4 (2.03%) Genesys
10 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.02%) Apple
11 2 (1.02%) Facebook
11 2 (1.02%) Instagram
11 2 (1.02%) Zoho