Azure Storage Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage 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 457 559 621
Rank change year-on-year +102 +62 -114
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 78 104 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 0.56% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 70 112
10th Percentile £394 £427 £413
25th Percentile £475 £516 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £609 £675 £650
90th Percentile £749 £801 £823
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Storage 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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the England 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
London +92 44 £594 -8.65% 8
South East +31 16 £605 -8.68% 5
South West +26 8 £519 -22.43% 1
North of England +19 2 £513 -4.65%
North West +17 2 £513 +17.82%
West Midlands +25 1 £388 -32.61% 1
Midlands +18 1 £388 -32.61% 4
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (20.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (17.95%) SharePoint
3 9 (11.54%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.28%) CMS
4 1 (1.28%) Drupal
4 1 (1.28%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 27 (34.62%) Azure Logic Apps
4 24 (30.77%) Serverless
5 23 (29.49%) Azure Functions
6 22 (28.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 22 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (24.36%) Azure API Management
7 19 (24.36%) Azure Key Vault
7 19 (24.36%) Power Platform
8 18 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (20.51%) Power Automate
10 15 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (17.95%) PaaS
12 12 (15.38%) AWS
13 9 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (8.97%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (8.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.36%) DHCP
1 19 (24.36%) DNS
2 18 (23.08%) Firewall
3 7 (8.97%) Intranet
4 2 (2.56%) VPN
5 1 (1.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (39.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (17.95%) SQL Server
3 9 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (8.97%) OLTP
6 6 (7.69%) Big Data
7 5 (6.41%) Redis
8 3 (3.85%) Power BI
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.28%) Metadata
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Git
2 10 (12.82%) Postman
3 7 (8.97%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (6.41%) GitLab
4 5 (6.41%) Selenium
5 1 (1.28%) Axure RP
5 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.28%) Maven
5 1 (1.28%) Moq
5 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Finance
3 10 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (5.13%) Military
6 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Law
6 2 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Front Office
7 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (47.44%) Developer
2 15 (19.23%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (19.23%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (17.95%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (17.95%) Support Specialist
4 12 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) SharePoint Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Python Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Senior
7 7 (8.97%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Applications Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Azure Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.49%) ARM Templates
2 17 (21.79%) .NET
3 15 (19.23%) Web Services
4 10 (12.82%) .NET Core
4 10 (12.82%) Swagger
5 9 (11.54%) SPFx
6 8 (10.26%) Blazor
7 7 (8.97%) JSON
8 6 (7.69%) XML
9 4 (5.13%) pytest
9 4 (5.13%) YAML
10 3 (3.85%) PySpark
11 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.56%) Kafka
11 2 (2.56%) RESTful
12 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET
12 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (1.28%) Django
12 1 (1.28%) Entity Framework
12 1 (1.28%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.51%) PKI
1 16 (20.51%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (6.41%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.85%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.28%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.28%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 35 (44.87%) Windows
2 22 (28.21%) Linux
3 21 (26.92%) Windows Server
4 15 (19.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.13%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.56%) Unix
9 1 (1.28%) CentOS
9 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (62.82%) Agile
2 44 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 31 (39.74%) DevOps
4 25 (32.05%) Analytics
5 21 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (24.36%) API Management
6 19 (24.36%) Microservices
7 18 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 18 (23.08%) TDD
8 16 (20.51%) Identity Management
8 16 (20.51%) ITIL
8 16 (20.51%) Log Analytics
8 16 (20.51%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (20.51%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (20.51%) RBAC
8 16 (20.51%) Release Management
8 16 (20.51%) Service Management
9 14 (17.95%) Migration
10 12 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.72%) C#
2 32 (41.03%) SQL
3 28 (35.90%) PowerShell
4 27 (34.62%) Python
5 19 (24.36%) JavaScript
6 17 (21.79%) Bicep
7 16 (20.51%) VB
7 16 (20.51%) VBScript
8 10 (12.82%) T-SQL
9 9 (11.54%) C++
9 9 (11.54%) Go
9 9 (11.54%) PL/SQL
10 6 (7.69%) Java
11 3 (3.85%) Bash
12 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.05%) SC Cleared
3 21 (26.92%) Degree
4 16 (20.51%) DV Cleared
4 16 (20.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (10.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (20.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (6.41%) Docker
5 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (42.31%) Kubernetes
2 19 (24.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (20.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (20.51%) SCCM
3 16 (20.51%) SCOM
3 16 (20.51%) WSUS
4 13 (16.67%) Terraform
5 4 (5.13%) Grafana
5 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.28%) yum
Vendors
1 46 (58.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.10%) Oracle
3 9 (11.54%) MuleSoft
4 6 (7.69%) Databricks
5 5 (6.41%) VMware
6 3 (3.85%) CA
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco
7 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.28%) Sybase