Azure Contracts in Dorset

Microsoft Azure
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 12 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure 16 42 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 9.76% 19.35% 21.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.33% 56.76% 71.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 27
10th Percentile - £160 £370
25th Percentile £175 £349 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -63.04% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £595 £628 £572
90th Percentile £769 £688 £653
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £28.20 £22.70
25th Percentile - £42.01 £26.76
Median hourly rate - £56.58 £34.14
Median % change year-on-year - +65.74% -
75th Percentile - £60.03 £42.14
90th Percentile - £60.43 £46.57
South West median hourly rate - £65.35 £34.14
% change year-on-year - +91.45% -32.74%

All Cloud Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30 74 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 18.29% 34.10% 29.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 57 36
10th Percentile £175 £160 £253
25th Percentile £175 £200 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -63.04% +0.10% +21.09%
75th Percentile £425 £625 £570
90th Percentile £769 £680 £631
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile - £13.64 £28.11
25th Percentile - £17.22 £40.27
Median hourly rate £14.00 £19.00 £61.89
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -69.30% -
75th Percentile - £57.72 £82.24
90th Percentile - £60.61 £85.83
South West median hourly rate £14.50 £55.43 £25.00
% change year-on-year -73.84% +121.70% -44.44%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Dorset

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Dorset

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Dorset

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Dorset

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth -6 12 £185 -61.09% 12
Azure
South West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) LAN
1 4 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Technician
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) NHS
2 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (68.75%) Network Management
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (6.25%) Observability
3 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
1 11 (68.75%) Veeam
1 11 (68.75%) VMware