Azure Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure 92 218 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.81% 10.53% 12.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.94% 41.52% 37.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 146 234
10th Percentile £213 £228 £313
25th Percentile £322 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £575
90th Percentile £588 £700 £675
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.09% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 7
10th Percentile £58.75 £21.97 £27.20
25th Percentile £64.50 £24.62 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +27.27% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.75 - -
90th Percentile £67.95 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
% change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +3.57%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 288 525 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.06% 25.36% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 344 538
10th Percentile £219 £184 £185
25th Percentile £322 £275 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £574 £589 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 57 66
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +22.58% +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £35.00 £22.13
90th Percentile £64.55 £70.00 £46.25
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.63% +44.05% -2.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Essex +5 27 £488 -7.14% 28
Bedfordshire -7 26 £275 -37.14% 18
Suffolk -2 11 £278 -60.36% 13
Cambridgeshire -34 10 £525 +10.53% 37
Hertfordshire -41 10 £453 +5.23% 78
Norfolk +5 8 £463 +36.03% 11
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (15.22%) SharePoint
2 12 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (10.87%) IIS
4 4 (4.35%) Apache
5 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.17%) Confluence
6 1 (1.09%) Luigi
6 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle Utilities
1 1 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.17%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (18.48%) AWS
3 13 (14.13%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.78%) GCP
5 7 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.17%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.17%) Boomi
7 2 (2.17%) GitHub
7 2 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.17%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.09%) OCI
8 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.61%) VPN
2 4 (4.35%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) LAN
3 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.26%) WAN
3 3 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.26%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.17%) BGP
4 2 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.17%) Network Security
4 2 (2.17%) OSPF
4 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.09%) DNS
5 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.09%) MPLS
5 1 (1.09%) MQTT
5 1 (1.09%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.09%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Power BI
2 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.26%) QlikView
3 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.09%) Big Data
5 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.09%) DTS
5 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.09%) Parquet
5 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) JIRA
2 4 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.26%) Fiddler
4 2 (2.17%) Git
4 2 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
General
1 31 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Finance
4 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.35%) Marketing
5 4 (4.35%) Retail
6 3 (3.26%) Local Government
7 1 (1.09%) Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Legal
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (17.39%) Support Engineer
2 10 (10.87%) Developer
3 9 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Architect
5 7 (7.61%) Web Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Analyst
6 6 (6.52%) Consultant
6 6 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Administrator
7 5 (5.43%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Desktop Support
7 5 (5.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 4 (4.35%) Service Delivery Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) .NET
2 6 (6.52%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.35%) SAML
4 2 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.17%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.17%) MFC
4 2 (2.17%) WinForms
4 2 (2.17%) WPF
5 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.09%) J2EE
5 1 (1.09%) JSON
5 1 (1.09%) LDAP
5 1 (1.09%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.09%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.09%) Sensu
5 1 (1.09%) SOAP
5 1 (1.09%) Web Services
5 1 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.43%) iPad
2 5 (5.43%) iPhone
2 5 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.17%) FMCG
3 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.17%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.09%) NHS
4 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.17%) Windows
2 12 (13.04%) Windows 10
3 9 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.17%) Linux
5 1 (1.09%) AIX
5 1 (1.09%) Android
5 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.09%) Solaris
5 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) DevOps
2 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (11.96%) ITIL
4 10 (10.87%) Agile
4 10 (10.87%) Migration
5 9 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (9.78%) Load Balancing
6 8 (8.70%) Project Management
7 7 (7.61%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.52%) Analytics
8 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (6.52%) Requirements Engineering
8 6 (6.52%) Systems Engineering
9 5 (5.43%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (5.43%) ETL
9 5 (5.43%) Inventory Management
9 5 (5.43%) PRINCE2
9 5 (5.43%) Software Engineering
9 5 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.22%) Python
2 13 (14.13%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.78%) C#
4 8 (8.70%) SQL
5 4 (4.35%) C++
5 4 (4.35%) Java
6 3 (3.26%) Bash
7 2 (2.17%) C++/CLI
7 2 (2.17%) Groovy
7 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.09%) Bicep
8 1 (1.09%) Jython
8 1 (1.09%) Korn
8 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.09%) R
8 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) Degree
2 7 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.35%) CCNA
5 4 (4.35%) MCSA
5 4 (4.35%) MCSE
6 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.09%) CCNP
8 1 (1.09%) CISSP
8 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) SLA
2 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.17%) COBIT
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.09%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (35.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) Docker
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) SCOM
2 7 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (7.61%) SCCM
3 5 (5.43%) Terraform
4 3 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.17%) Ansible
6 1 (1.09%) Grafana
6 1 (1.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (29.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.61%) F5
3 6 (6.52%) Clearswift
3 6 (6.52%) Proofpoint
4 5 (5.43%) Google
4 5 (5.43%) SAP
5 4 (4.35%) Citrix
6 3 (3.26%) Ariba
6 3 (3.26%) Cisco
6 3 (3.26%) McAfee
6 3 (3.26%) VMware
7 2 (2.17%) Databricks
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle
7 2 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.17%) Splunk
7 2 (2.17%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.09%) Sparx