Azure Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,934 8,088 11,735
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.39% 16.47% 16.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.07% 45.05% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 5,963 8,638
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £440 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 78 51
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.01 £17.64
25th Percentile £22.40 £24.62 £33.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.65 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -40.32% +21.50% -3.46%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £59.90 £54.00
% change year-on-year -41.57% +10.93% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,728 17,954 27,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.84% 36.55% 38.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,469 13,128 19,984
10th Percentile £300 £325 £337
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 319 303 338
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +51.55% +0.95%
75th Percentile £32.63 £65.88 £43.79
90th Percentile £62.50 £78.00 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London 0 2,906 £550 -8.33% 1,340
South East -4 580 £550 -2.22% 509
North of England -6 498 £500 -4.76% 653
South West -3 354 £500 -9.09% 347
Midlands -7 301 £525 +9.38% 495
North West -8 281 £490 -2.00% 359
West Midlands -5 221 £550 +4.76% 290
Yorkshire 0 190 £500 -9.09% 227
East of England -26 84 £475 +2.70% 197
East Midlands -4 78 £463 +2.78% 204
North East 0 33 £533 -11.25% 71
Azure
UK

Azure
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
1 319 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 230 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 149 (3.02%) Confluence
4 113 (2.29%) Apache
5 81 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 75 (1.52%) Apache Spark
7 41 (0.83%) IIS
8 40 (0.81%) CMS
9 36 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
10 15 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
10 15 (0.30%) nginx
11 11 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.18%) Site Server
14 8 (0.16%) JBoss
14 8 (0.16%) SAS
14 8 (0.16%) Skype for Business
15 7 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 7 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 107 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.061%) Trello
8 2 (0.041%) Sketch
9 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.020%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.020%) InDesign
9 1 (0.020%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.020%) InVision
9 1 (0.020%) Marvel
9 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 108 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 20 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.34%) Endur
5 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 10 (0.20%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 9 (0.18%) Shopify
9 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.14%) Aladdin
11 6 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 6 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
12 5 (0.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
13 4 (0.081%) SAP HR
14 3 (0.061%) BusinessWorks
14 3 (0.061%) NetSuite
14 3 (0.061%) Primavera
14 3 (0.061%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,251 (25.35%) AWS
2 1,042 (21.12%) Azure DevOps
3 624 (12.65%) Microsoft 365
4 564 (11.43%) Power Platform
5 550 (11.15%) GCP
6 516 (10.46%) Entra ID
7 308 (6.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 264 (5.35%) Serverless
9 239 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
10 198 (4.01%) PaaS
11 183 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
12 182 (3.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 180 (3.65%) GitHub
14 176 (3.57%) Azure Functions
15 173 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
16 172 (3.49%) IaaS
17 166 (3.36%) SaaS
18 159 (3.22%) Power Automate
19 157 (3.18%) Azure Logic Apps
20 156 (3.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 364 (7.38%) Firewall
2 222 (4.50%) DNS
3 138 (2.80%) VPN
4 103 (2.09%) WAN
5 98 (1.99%) DHCP
6 97 (1.97%) Network Security
7 93 (1.88%) LAN
8 74 (1.50%) SAN
9 71 (1.44%) BGP
10 65 (1.32%) SSL
11 63 (1.28%) TCP/IP
12 48 (0.97%) Wireless
13 45 (0.91%) MPLS
14 43 (0.87%) OSPF
15 41 (0.83%) VLAN
16 36 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.65%) HTTP
18 31 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
19 27 (0.55%) Internet
20 26 (0.53%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 432 (8.76%) Power BI
3 258 (5.23%) Data Lake
4 247 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
5 202 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
6 200 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 168 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 129 (2.61%) Big Data
9 111 (2.25%) Relational Database
10 95 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 86 (1.74%) MySQL
12 75 (1.52%) MongoDB
13 68 (1.38%) Tableau
14 60 (1.22%) Apache Ignite
15 39 (0.79%) Redis
15 39 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 37 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 32 (0.65%) RDBMS
18 30 (0.61%) Metadata
19 29 (0.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 338 (6.85%) Git
2 263 (5.33%) JIRA
3 155 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 122 (2.47%) GitLab
5 94 (1.91%) Selenium
6 79 (1.60%) Visual Studio
7 70 (1.42%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.20%) SpecFlow
9 46 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 37 (0.75%) Postman
11 34 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 29 (0.59%) Maven
13 28 (0.57%) Bitbucket
14 26 (0.53%) JMeter
15 24 (0.49%) Cucumber
16 19 (0.39%) CircleCI
17 17 (0.34%) Artifactory
17 17 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 17 (0.34%) WebDriver
18 16 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,138 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (20.61%) Finance
3 473 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 439 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 315 (6.38%) Banking
6 185 (3.75%) Front Office
7 126 (2.55%) Marketing
8 124 (2.51%) Retail
9 95 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 87 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 80 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 68 (1.38%) Legal
13 64 (1.30%) Back Office
14 63 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
15 61 (1.24%) Law
16 55 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 48 (0.97%) Electronics
18 46 (0.93%) Investment Banking
19 44 (0.89%) Financial Institution
20 38 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 971 (19.68%) Developer
2 821 (16.64%) Architect
3 525 (10.64%) Senior
4 439 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
5 353 (7.15%) Analyst
6 322 (6.53%) Data Engineer
7 290 (5.88%) Lead
8 244 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
9 230 (4.66%) Consultant
10 212 (4.30%) Software Engineer
11 211 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 191 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 182 (3.69%) Senior Developer
14 177 (3.59%) .NET Developer
15 156 (3.16%) Azure Developer
16 153 (3.10%) Full Stack Developer
17 144 (2.92%) Python Developer
18 142 (2.88%) Azure Architect
19 138 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
19 138 (2.80%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 678 (13.74%) .NET
2 298 (6.04%) React
3 209 (4.24%) .NET Core
4 200 (4.05%) XML
5 181 (3.67%) REST
6 175 (3.55%) HTML
7 163 (3.30%) .NET Framework
8 159 (3.22%) AngularJS
9 148 (3.00%) CSS
10 146 (2.96%) Web Services
11 120 (2.43%) Kafka
11 120 (2.43%) PySpark
12 117 (2.37%) ASP.NET
13 116 (2.35%) JSON
14 113 (2.29%) Node.js
15 102 (2.07%) ARM Templates
16 98 (1.99%) RESTful
17 95 (1.93%) Redux
18 83 (1.68%) YAML
19 74 (1.50%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 213 (4.32%) Product Ownership
2 139 (2.82%) Public Cloud
3 132 (2.68%) Data Centre
4 123 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 118 (2.39%) PKI
6 117 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 116 (2.35%) Hedge funds
8 91 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 88 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 86 (1.74%) Derivative
11 80 (1.62%) Equities
12 75 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 70 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 68 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 57 (1.16%) Private Cloud
16 53 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 48 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
18 47 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
19 45 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
20 44 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 733 (14.86%) Windows
2 386 (7.82%) Linux
3 291 (5.90%) Windows Server
4 161 (3.26%) Windows 10
5 83 (1.68%) Unix
6 73 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 73 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 68 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 63 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 46 (0.93%) Android
10 45 (0.91%) Mac OS
11 39 (0.79%) Apple iOS
12 32 (0.65%) VMS
13 21 (0.43%) Ubuntu
14 17 (0.34%) Solaris
14 17 (0.34%) Windows 7
14 17 (0.34%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.22%) Mac OS X
15 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,724 (34.94%) DevOps
2 1,381 (27.99%) Agile
3 741 (15.02%) CI/CD
4 637 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
5 575 (11.65%) Migration
6 491 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
7 461 (9.34%) Software Engineering
8 443 (8.98%) Analytics
9 394 (7.99%) Scrum
10 339 (6.87%) Data Modelling
11 324 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 300 (6.08%) ETL
13 287 (5.82%) Full Stack Development
14 281 (5.70%) ITIL
14 281 (5.70%) Microservices
15 268 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 267 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 261 (5.29%) Test Automation
18 255 (5.17%) Cybersecurity
19 247 (5.01%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 975 (19.76%) SQL
2 898 (18.20%) Python
3 736 (14.92%) C#
4 664 (13.46%) PowerShell
5 361 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 282 (5.72%) Java
7 249 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 160 (3.24%) Bicep
9 136 (2.76%) Bash
10 91 (1.84%) T-SQL
11 58 (1.18%) C++
11 58 (1.18%) Scala
12 55 (1.11%) C
13 52 (1.05%) Go
14 37 (0.75%) R
15 33 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 31 (0.63%) VBScript
17 29 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (0.57%) PHP
19 27 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 751 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 557 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 489 (9.91%) Degree
4 243 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 175 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 155 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 98 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 87 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 76 (1.54%) CISSP
10 55 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 51 (1.03%) CCNP
12 50 (1.01%) CCNA
13 48 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 42 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
15 41 (0.83%) CISM
16 22 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 19 (0.39%) PMP
19 16 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 15 (0.30%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (4.42%) QA
2 129 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 82 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 73 (1.48%) NIST
5 69 (1.40%) GDPR
6 57 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 56 (1.13%) SLA
8 51 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 39 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
10 28 (0.57%) NCSC
11 23 (0.47%) WCAG
12 21 (0.43%) PMO
13 19 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.24%) GRC
15 11 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.18%) ISO 20022
18 8 (0.16%) COBIT
19 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
20 6 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 829 (16.80%) Active Directory
2 327 (6.63%) Docker
3 186 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 115 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 111 (2.25%) Hyper-V
6 69 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 36 (0.73%) vSphere
8 33 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.28%) XenApp
11 11 (0.22%) Firmware
12 10 (0.20%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (0.16%) ACF2
14 8 (0.16%) IAG
14 8 (0.16%) RACF
14 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.14%) NFS
16 6 (0.12%) KVM
17 5 (0.10%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 467 (9.46%) Terraform
2 426 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 259 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 206 (4.18%) Ansible
5 153 (3.10%) SCCM
6 96 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 80 (1.62%) SCOM
8 60 (1.22%) Puppet
9 58 (1.18%) Grafana
10 54 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 50 (1.01%) Prometheus
12 43 (0.87%) WSUS
13 36 (0.73%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.57%) vCenter Server
15 27 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
16 24 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
17 22 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
17 22 (0.45%) Kibana
18 19 (0.39%) Podman
19 18 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,643 (33.30%) Microsoft
2 319 (6.47%) Databricks
3 300 (6.08%) VMware
4 290 (5.88%) Oracle
5 198 (4.01%) Google
6 150 (3.04%) SAP
7 139 (2.82%) Cisco
8 104 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 91 (1.84%) Splunk
10 83 (1.68%) Citrix
11 71 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 71 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 63 (1.28%) F5
13 55 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 55 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 53 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 50 (1.01%) Veeam
16 48 (0.97%) Okta
17 47 (0.95%) Dell
18 44 (0.89%) HP