Azure Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 26 29 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 10.57% 16.02% 13.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.52% 43.94% 52.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 26
10th Percentile £180 £163 £361
25th Percentile £253 £240 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% -11.76% +31.61%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £530
90th Percentile £552 £675 £538
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £54.13
25th Percentile £65.25 - £54.69
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £65.75 - £56.56
90th Percentile - - £59.38
East of England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +27.27% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 46 66 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 18.70% 36.46% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 50 46
10th Percentile £233 £174 £178
25th Percentile £263 £269 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £530
90th Percentile £575 £641 £556
East of England median daily rate £475 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £53.00
25th Percentile £65.25 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £65.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £59.75
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -14.21% +22.58% +3.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Bedfordshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Bedfordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Bedfordshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Bedfordshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Luton 0 12 £275 -14.60% 5
Bedford 0 7 £263 +50.00% 2
Dunstable -4 1 - -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £575 -
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) InfoPath
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Boomi
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) WhatsApp
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) BGP
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) OSPF
2 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
2 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (3.85%) Subversion
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 4 (15.38%) Marketing
3 4 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) IT Support
5 2 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (7.69%) IT Technician
5 2 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Network Technical Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Support Technician
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
1 1 (3.85%) jQuery
1 1 (3.85%) React
1 1 (3.85%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Windows 10
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Requirements Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (19.23%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (19.23%) Product Backlog
3 5 (19.23%) Sprint Review
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.69%) Capacity Management
6 2 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Planning and Forecasting
6 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Bicep
2 1 (3.85%) C#
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) CCNA
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
1 4 (15.38%) MCSA
1 4 (15.38%) MCSE
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) SAP
3 3 (11.54%) Ariba
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 2 (7.69%) F5
4 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (7.69%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) VMware