Azure Certification Contracts

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 378 399
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 -19
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 220 362 568
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.72% 2.33% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 238 353
10th Percentile £349 £363 £406
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £688
90th Percentile £740 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.97% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,821 15,525 18,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.13% 27.19% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,940 10,364 12,432
10th Percentile £307 £330 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,052 789 770
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.47 £19.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +23.15% +13.90%
75th Percentile £61.35 £67.50 £58.66
90th Percentile £76.15 £79.30 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.63 £49.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.63% +42.68% -1.41%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England -24 177 £500 -9.09% 308
London +39 107 £538 -4.44% 117
Work from Home +32 85 £550 - 105
UK excluding London -6 72 £500 -6.54% 218
South East +8 19 £456 -18.13% 47
North of England +9 16 £450 -10.89% 55
Midlands +22 14 £594 +39.71% 44
Scotland +51 12 £513 +7.89% 12
West Midlands +13 11 £563 +32.35% 23
South West -1 9 £575 +4.55% 31
North West +6 8 £450 -10.00% 31
Yorkshire +20 7 £450 -11.76% 17
East Midlands +14 3 £606 +51.56% 20
East of England +3 1 £475 +1.33% 22
North East - 1 £500 - 8
Wales - 1 £643 - 8

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Confluence
4 2 (0.91%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Chatbot
1 10 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 220 (100.00%) Azure
2 73 (33.18%) AWS
3 48 (21.82%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (17.27%) Entra ID
5 33 (15.00%) IaaS
6 24 (10.91%) Power Platform
7 22 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 22 (10.00%) GCP
8 20 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (7.73%) PaaS
10 16 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (5.00%) Serverless
13 9 (4.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 9 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (4.09%) Twilio
14 8 (3.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.00%) Firewall
2 14 (6.36%) Network Security
3 13 (5.91%) DNS
4 9 (4.09%) CTI
4 9 (4.09%) VoIP
5 8 (3.64%) DHCP
6 6 (2.73%) LAN
7 5 (2.27%) BGP
7 5 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.27%) EIGRP
7 5 (2.27%) HSRP
7 5 (2.27%) IPsec
7 5 (2.27%) IPv4
7 5 (2.27%) IPv6
7 5 (2.27%) MPLS
7 5 (2.27%) OSPF
7 5 (2.27%) TACACS
7 5 (2.27%) VLAN
7 5 (2.27%) VPN
7 5 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.09%) Power BI
6 8 (3.64%) Big Data
7 6 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.27%) Tableau
9 4 (1.82%) QlikView
9 4 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (1.36%) MySQL
10 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.91%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.91%) Redis
11 2 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.64%) GitLab
2 5 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.27%) JIRA
3 4 (1.82%) Git
4 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.45%) GoCD
6 1 (0.45%) Hudson
6 1 (0.45%) JUnit
6 1 (0.45%) MLflow
6 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 59 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.45%) Finance
3 32 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.36%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.55%) Banking
7 9 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.09%) Retail
8 7 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.73%) Marketing
10 5 (2.27%) German Language
11 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.36%) Electronics
12 3 (1.36%) Law
12 3 (1.36%) Legal
13 2 (0.91%) Billing
14 1 (0.45%) Automotive
14 1 (0.45%) Publishing
14 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (27.73%) Architect
2 48 (21.82%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (16.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (10.45%) Azure Architect
6 18 (8.18%) Senior
7 17 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Developer
8 14 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Analyst
10 8 (3.64%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Lead
11 7 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (2.73%) Administrator
12 6 (2.73%) DBA
12 6 (2.73%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.73%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (2.73%) Security Engineer
12 6 (2.73%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.91%) Web Services
2 10 (4.55%) .NET
2 10 (4.55%) Middleware
3 8 (3.64%) REST
4 7 (3.18%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.73%) CSS
6 5 (2.27%) 802.1X
7 4 (1.82%) RESTful
8 3 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.36%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.36%) React
9 2 (0.91%) ADO
9 2 (0.91%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.91%) JSON
9 2 (0.91%) LangChain
9 2 (0.91%) OAuth
9 2 (0.91%) OpenID
9 2 (0.91%) PySpark
9 2 (0.91%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.91%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.09%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.09%) IVR
4 8 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (2.73%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.27%) Clustering
7 4 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.36%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.91%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.91%) IoT
9 2 (0.91%) PKI
9 2 (0.91%) Replication
9 2 (0.91%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.09%) Windows
2 18 (8.18%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.27%) Linux
4 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.82%) Unix
6 3 (1.36%) VMS
6 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.45%) AIX
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.91%) DevOps
2 48 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (21.36%) Agile
3 47 (21.36%) Migration
4 45 (20.45%) Computer Science
5 36 (16.36%) Analytics
6 31 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 22 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 22 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 18 (8.18%) Capacity Planning
8 18 (8.18%) Identity Access Management
8 18 (8.18%) ITIL
8 18 (8.18%) Performance Optimisation
9 17 (7.73%) TOGAF
10 15 (6.82%) High Availability
10 15 (6.82%) Load Balancing
10 15 (6.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.82%) SQL
2 35 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 33 (15.00%) Python
4 11 (5.00%) C#
5 10 (4.55%) Bicep
5 10 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (3.18%) Java
7 4 (1.82%) Bash
7 4 (1.82%) PHP
7 4 (1.82%) Scala
8 3 (1.36%) Ruby
9 1 (0.45%) Go
9 1 (0.45%) Groovy
9 1 (0.45%) R
9 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (31.36%) Degree
2 46 (20.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 41 (18.64%) Security Cleared
4 40 (18.18%) AWS Certification
5 39 (17.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (15.00%) SC Cleared
7 19 (8.64%) Master's Degree
8 18 (8.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.91%) CISSP
10 12 (5.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 9 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (4.09%) DV Cleared
11 9 (4.09%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (2.73%) CCNP
14 5 (2.27%) CCNA
15 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (1.36%) MCITP
15 3 (1.36%) MCTS
16 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.09%) GDPR
2 8 (3.64%) HIPAA
2 8 (3.64%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.64%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.36%) NCSC
4 3 (1.36%) NIST
4 3 (1.36%) PMO
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 45 (20.45%) Active Directory
2 22 (10.00%) Docker
3 19 (8.64%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (7.73%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.27%) vSphere
8 2 (0.91%) XenApp
8 2 (0.91%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.45%) Ceph
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.45%) NFS
9 1 (0.45%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.45%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (20.00%) Terraform
2 29 (13.18%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.09%) Ansible
5 8 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.27%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.91%) Grafana
7 2 (0.91%) Nagios
7 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.91%) Puppet
7 2 (0.91%) WSUS
8 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.45%) Graylog
8 1 (0.45%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.45%) Mesos
8 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 135 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.64%) VMware
3 22 (10.00%) Google
4 17 (7.73%) Cisco
5 12 (5.45%) Databricks
6 10 (4.55%) Oracle
7 9 (4.09%) Avaya
7 9 (4.09%) Genesys
8 8 (3.64%) Citrix
9 7 (3.18%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.73%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.73%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.27%) F5
11 5 (2.27%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.36%) SAP
12 3 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.91%) Apple
13 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (0.91%) Facebook
13 2 (0.91%) Zoho