Azure Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 249 278 370
Rank change year-on-year +29 +92 -84
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 93 184 264
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.77% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.40% 3.08% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 119 195
10th Percentile £324 £393 £413
25th Percentile £381 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £669
90th Percentile £700 £705 £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 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,871 5,983 8,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 25.06% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 4,053 6,276
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 246 232
10th Percentile £15.36 £19.00 £19.04
25th Percentile £23.94 £42.50 £39.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

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 12 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 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.15%) IIS
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.08%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (36.56%) AWS
3 19 (20.43%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (20.43%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.13%) GCP
5 14 (15.05%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (13.98%) IaaS
7 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
8 10 (10.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (9.68%) PaaS
10 8 (8.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (7.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (7.53%) Power Automate
11 7 (7.53%) PowerApps
12 6 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (6.45%) Azure AI
13 5 (5.38%) Serverless
13 5 (5.38%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.68%) Firewall
2 5 (5.38%) CTI
2 5 (5.38%) Network Security
2 5 (5.38%) VoIP
3 3 (3.23%) LAN
3 3 (3.23%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.23%) WAN
4 2 (2.15%) SSL
4 2 (2.15%) VPN
4 2 (2.15%) WLAN
5 1 (1.08%) 4G
5 1 (1.08%) 5G
5 1 (1.08%) DNS
5 1 (1.08%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.45%) Big Data
2 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.30%) Power BI
4 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.23%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.23%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.08%) MySQL
6 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.08%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Finance
3 11 (11.83%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Retail
6 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Electronics
6 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 2 (2.15%) Banking
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Billing
8 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (25.81%) Architect
2 20 (21.51%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (7.53%) Azure Architect
4 7 (7.53%) Consultant
4 7 (7.53%) Developer
4 7 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.45%) Azure Specialist
5 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) AWS Specialist
6 5 (5.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (5.38%) Senior
6 5 (5.38%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Cloud Consultant
7 4 (4.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) ARM Templates
1 6 (6.45%) Middleware
1 6 (6.45%) Web Services
2 5 (5.38%) .NET
3 3 (3.23%) CSS
3 3 (3.23%) PySpark
3 3 (3.23%) REST
3 3 (3.23%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (2.15%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.15%) Hugging Face
4 2 (2.15%) LangChain
4 2 (2.15%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.15%) RESTful
5 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.08%) Node.js
5 1 (1.08%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.08%) React
5 1 (1.08%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.38%) IVR
3 4 (4.30%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.23%) PKI
5 2 (2.15%) Clustering
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.15%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.15%) Tandem
6 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) FMCG
6 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.08%) IoT
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.75%) Windows
2 2 (2.15%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Unix
2 2 (2.15%) VMS
2 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.48%) DevOps
2 19 (20.43%) Migration
3 18 (19.35%) Agile
4 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 11 (11.83%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (10.75%) Analytics
8 10 (10.75%) Containerisation
9 9 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
11 7 (7.53%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (7.53%) Data Engineering
11 7 (7.53%) DevSecOps
11 7 (7.53%) Service Delivery
12 6 (6.45%) Cloud Operations
12 6 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) SQL
2 14 (15.05%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.68%) Python
4 5 (5.38%) C#
4 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.38%) Scala
5 4 (4.30%) Bicep
6 3 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.15%) Bash
7 2 (2.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.08%) Java
8 1 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (23.66%) AWS Certification
2 20 (21.51%) Degree
3 19 (20.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (15.05%) Security Cleared
5 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
6 10 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (7.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (7.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.15%) CCIE
11 2 (2.15%) CCNP
11 2 (2.15%) CISSP
12 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.08%) CSSLP
12 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) GDPR
2 4 (4.30%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.30%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.30%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.15%) NIST
4 1 (1.08%) COBIT
4 1 (1.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.05%) Docker
3 8 (8.60%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.08%) vSphere
7 1 (1.08%) XenApp
7 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (21.51%) Terraform
2 15 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.15%) Ansible
4 2 (2.15%) Nagios
4 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.15%) WSUS
5 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Graylog
5 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (60.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.13%) VMware
3 9 (9.68%) Cisco
4 8 (8.60%) Databricks
4 8 (8.60%) Oracle
5 6 (6.45%) Citrix
5 6 (6.45%) Google
6 5 (5.38%) Avaya
6 5 (5.38%) Genesys
7 3 (3.23%) SAP
7 3 (3.23%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.15%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.15%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.15%) F5
8 2 (2.15%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.08%) CA
9 1 (1.08%) Facebook
9 1 (1.08%) IBM
9 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.08%) Splunk