Azure Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 49 99 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.78% 18.37% 10.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.65% 43.23% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 71 39
10th Percentile £320 £385 £183
25th Percentile £463 £456 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% +18.53% +13.10%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £539
90th Percentile £638 £650 £630
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
North West median hourly rate £18.00 £65.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -72.52% +191.11% -60.87%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 171 229 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.13% 42.49% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 168 88
10th Percentile £289 £214 £163
25th Percentile £364 £385 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £538
90th Percentile £588 £638 £630
North West median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 8
10th Percentile £16.98 £12.63 £18.18
25th Percentile - £15.50 £19.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% -18.44% +49.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.60 £39.00
90th Percentile - £52.88 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
% change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Warrington +1 20 £475 -3.80% 18
Knutsford -8 11 £566 +0.18% 1
Chester +2 2 £296 -24.04% 14
Runcorn -2 1 - - 2
Northwich - 1 - - 3
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
1 4 (8.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.24%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.16%) Apigee
6 4 (8.16%) Kong
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Stack
7 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 2 (4.08%) Serverless
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.04%) Commercetools
9 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) VPN
2 7 (14.29%) DSL
3 6 (12.24%) TCP/IP
3 6 (12.24%) VLAN
4 5 (10.20%) Firewall
5 4 (8.16%) DNS
6 3 (6.12%) BGP
6 3 (6.12%) DHCP
6 3 (6.12%) DMZ
6 3 (6.12%) MPLS
6 3 (6.12%) OSPF
6 3 (6.12%) Value-Added Service
6 3 (6.12%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.04%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.04%) LAN
7 1 (2.04%) Network Security
7 1 (2.04%) SAN
7 1 (2.04%) Skype
7 1 (2.04%) VSAN
7 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.16%) OLAP
1 4 (8.16%) OLTP
1 4 (8.16%) Oracle OLAP
2 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.04%) Big Data
4 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) Navicat
4 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (30.61%) JIRA
2 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.16%) Git
4 1 (2.04%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) Postman
4 1 (2.04%) Selenium
4 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.04%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.04%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.20%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Local Government
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Architect
2 7 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Azure Consultant
3 6 (12.24%) Consultant
4 5 (10.20%) Azure Architect
4 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Applications Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Senior
7 2 (4.08%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) .NET
1 5 (10.20%) Web Services
2 4 (8.16%) .NET Core
2 4 (8.16%) Apache Camel
2 4 (8.16%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (8.16%) J2EE
2 4 (8.16%) Kafka
2 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (8.16%) REST
2 4 (8.16%) SOAP
2 4 (8.16%) Spring
2 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
2 4 (8.16%) Spring Integration
3 3 (6.12%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.12%) Entity Framework
4 2 (4.08%) JSON
4 2 (4.08%) XML
5 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.04%) ODBC
5 1 (2.04%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 7 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 4 (8.16%) DataPower
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.08%) PKI
3 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Windows
2 8 (16.33%) Linux
3 7 (14.29%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) Android
4 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) DevOps
2 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (24.49%) Agile
3 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.33%) Microservices
4 8 (16.33%) Project Delivery
5 7 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 7 (14.29%) Server Building
6 6 (12.24%) Event-Driven
6 6 (12.24%) OO
7 5 (10.20%) Change Management
7 5 (10.20%) Migration
8 4 (8.16%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.16%) Data Management
8 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (8.16%) Scrum
8 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) PowerShell
2 7 (14.29%) Ruby
3 6 (12.24%) Java
4 5 (10.20%) SQL
5 3 (6.12%) C#
5 3 (6.12%) Python
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) Scala
7 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 3 (6.12%) CCIE
4 3 (6.12%) CCNP
4 3 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.12%) VCAP
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Ansible
2 7 (14.29%) CFEngine
2 7 (14.29%) PowerBroker
2 7 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 7 (14.29%) Puppet
2 7 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.12%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.04%) Avamar
4 1 (2.04%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle
5 4 (8.16%) IBM
5 4 (8.16%) TSYS
6 3 (6.12%) Google
6 3 (6.12%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco
7 1 (2.04%) Dell
7 1 (2.04%) F5
7 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.04%) HP
7 1 (2.04%) Meraki
7 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.04%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.04%) Sophos
7 1 (2.04%) Teradata
7 1 (2.04%) Veeam