Azure Certification Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 316 362
Rank change year-on-year +41 +46 -21
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 112 177 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.68% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.71% 3.12% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 124 166
10th Percentile £312 £413 £423
25th Percentile £400 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +28.71%
75th Percentile £638 £691 £734
90th Percentile £750 £818 £800
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
England median hourly rate - £51.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,139 5,680 6,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.68% 21.83% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 3,859 4,665
10th Percentile £325 £363 £369
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 152
10th Percentile £14.19 £19.32 £24.77
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -5.06% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.23 £87.50 £66.57
England median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £40.93
% change year-on-year -25.02% +30.35% +9.14%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London +31 20 £538 -10.42% 21
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (30.36%) AWS
3 24 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (15.18%) Entra ID
6 16 (14.29%) IaaS
7 14 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (9.82%) PaaS
10 10 (8.93%) Power Platform
11 8 (7.14%) GCP
11 8 (7.14%) Serverless
12 7 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (6.25%) OCI
13 5 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (4.46%) GitHub
13 5 (4.46%) Mimecast
14 4 (3.57%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.50%) Firewall
2 9 (8.04%) DNS
3 8 (7.14%) DHCP
4 5 (4.46%) BGP
4 5 (4.46%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (4.46%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (4.46%) EIGRP
4 5 (4.46%) HSRP
4 5 (4.46%) IPsec
4 5 (4.46%) IPv4
4 5 (4.46%) IPv6
4 5 (4.46%) LAN
4 5 (4.46%) MPLS
4 5 (4.46%) OSPF
4 5 (4.46%) TACACS
4 5 (4.46%) VLAN
4 5 (4.46%) VXLAN
4 5 (4.46%) Wireless
5 2 (1.79%) CTI
5 2 (1.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (8.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (7.14%) Big Data
3 5 (4.46%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.57%) Power BI
4 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (2.68%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.79%) MySQL
6 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) GitLab
2 4 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (1.79%) Git
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.89%) GoCD
4 1 (0.89%) MLflow
4 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.14%) Banking
5 7 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.79%) Law
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
8 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.79%) Retail
8 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.89%) Billing
9 1 (0.89%) German Language
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (23.21%) Cloud Engineer
2 24 (21.43%) Architect
3 23 (20.54%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior
5 11 (9.82%) Azure Architect
6 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Developer
7 7 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.36%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Administrator
9 5 (4.46%) Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Lead
9 5 (4.46%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) DBA
10 4 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) .NET
2 5 (4.46%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.68%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.68%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.68%) Middleware
3 3 (2.68%) PySpark
3 3 (2.68%) Spark Streaming
3 3 (2.68%) Web Services
4 2 (1.79%) OAuth
4 2 (1.79%) React
4 2 (1.79%) REST
4 2 (1.79%) RESTful
5 1 (0.89%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.89%) BentoML
5 1 (0.89%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.89%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.89%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.89%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.46%) Clustering
2 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.68%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.68%) Grid Computing
3 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.79%) IVR
4 2 (1.79%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.79%) Tandem
5 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) IoT
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.21%) Windows
2 6 (5.36%) Linux
2 6 (5.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) VMS
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.25%) DevOps
2 26 (23.21%) Computer Science
3 25 (22.32%) Migration
4 19 (16.96%) Agile
4 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (12.50%) Analytics
7 12 (10.71%) ITIL
8 11 (9.82%) CI/CD
9 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (8.93%) TOGAF
10 9 (8.04%) Cost Optimisation
10 9 (8.04%) Project Delivery
11 8 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (7.14%) DevSecOps
12 7 (6.25%) Containerisation
12 7 (6.25%) Data Engineering
12 7 (6.25%) Data Migration
12 7 (6.25%) Microservices
12 7 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.32%) SQL
2 18 (16.07%) PowerShell
3 17 (15.18%) Python
4 6 (5.36%) C#
5 5 (4.46%) Bicep
5 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.46%) Scala
6 2 (1.79%) Java
7 1 (0.89%) Bash
7 1 (0.89%) Groovy
7 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (31.25%) Degree
2 18 (16.07%) AWS Certification
2 18 (16.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (16.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (5.36%) Master's Degree
8 5 (4.46%) CCNA
8 5 (4.46%) CCNP
8 5 (4.46%) CISSP
9 4 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.68%) MCITP
10 3 (2.68%) MCTS
11 2 (1.79%) CCSK
11 2 (1.79%) CISM
11 2 (1.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) GDPR
1 3 (2.68%) PMO
2 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.79%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.71%) Docker
2 12 (10.71%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.79%) XenApp
5 2 (1.79%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.89%) Ceph
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.89%) NFS
6 1 (0.89%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.89%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (28.57%) Terraform
2 17 (15.18%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.36%) Ansible
5 5 (4.46%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.79%) Puppet
7 2 (1.79%) WSUS
8 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.89%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.89%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.89%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.89%) Mesos
8 1 (0.89%) Nagios
8 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (61.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.96%) VMware
3 11 (9.82%) Databricks
4 8 (7.14%) Cisco
4 8 (7.14%) Google
5 7 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 6 (5.36%) Citrix
6 6 (5.36%) Oracle
7 5 (4.46%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.46%) F5
7 5 (4.46%) Infoblox
7 5 (4.46%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.68%) CA
9 2 (1.79%) Avaya
9 2 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.79%) Genesys
9 2 (1.79%) Zoho
10 1 (0.89%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.89%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow