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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,940 8,215 11,813
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.40% 16.45% 16.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.04% 45.00% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,059 8,699
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 81 51
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.13 £17.64
25th Percentile £22.40 £23.25 £33.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +13.94% -4.89%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -39.13% +6.48% +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 11,751 18,255 27,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.55% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,494 13,351 20,143
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
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 318 309 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%
75th Percentile £32.31 £65.75 £42.88
90th Percentile £61.72 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 2,884 £550 -8.33% 1,476
South East -4 587 £550 -2.22% 545
North of England -6 501 £500 -4.76% 647
South West -3 361 £500 -9.09% 341
Midlands -5 306 £525 +6.33% 465
North West -8 284 £495 -1.10% 362
West Midlands -5 223 £550 +5.26% 274
Yorkshire 0 190 £500 -9.09% 217
East of England -24 87 £475 +1.33% 192
East Midlands -3 81 £463 +2.78% 190
North East 0 33 £533 -11.25% 73
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
1 324 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 232 (4.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 148 (3.00%) Confluence
4 106 (2.15%) Apache
5 75 (1.52%) Apache Spark
6 73 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
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
11 11 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.20%) Site Server
13 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
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
1 117 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.061%) Trello
8 2 (0.040%) 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
1 107 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 20 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.32%) Endur
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 6 (0.12%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
12 4 (0.081%) OpenLink RightAngle
12 4 (0.081%) SAP HR
13 3 (0.061%) PeopleSoft HCM
13 3 (0.061%) Primavera
13 3 (0.061%) Sage X3
13 3 (0.061%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,241 (25.12%) AWS
2 1,036 (20.97%) Azure DevOps
3 641 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
4 564 (11.42%) Power Platform
5 536 (10.85%) GCP
6 518 (10.49%) Entra ID
7 305 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 259 (5.24%) Serverless
9 237 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
10 198 (4.01%) PaaS
11 183 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 183 (3.70%) GitHub
12 180 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 175 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
14 172 (3.48%) IaaS
15 171 (3.46%) Azure Functions
16 166 (3.36%) SaaS
17 157 (3.18%) Power Automate
18 156 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
19 153 (3.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 367 (7.43%) Firewall
2 228 (4.62%) DNS
3 142 (2.87%) VPN
4 104 (2.11%) WAN
5 102 (2.06%) DHCP
6 100 (2.02%) Network Security
7 94 (1.90%) LAN
8 74 (1.50%) SAN
9 71 (1.44%) BGP
10 65 (1.32%) SSL
11 64 (1.30%) TCP/IP
12 48 (0.97%) Wireless
13 46 (0.93%) MPLS
14 43 (0.87%) OSPF
15 41 (0.83%) VLAN
16 36 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 31 (0.63%) HTTP
18 30 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
19 27 (0.55%) Internet
20 25 (0.51%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 582 (11.78%) SQL Server
2 433 (8.77%) Power BI
3 256 (5.18%) Data Lake
4 250 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
5 197 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
6 193 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 167 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 128 (2.59%) Big Data
9 107 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 101 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 86 (1.74%) MySQL
12 76 (1.54%) MongoDB
13 67 (1.36%) Tableau
14 52 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
15 41 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 41 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (0.75%) Redis
17 31 (0.63%) Metadata
18 29 (0.59%) GIS
18 29 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 337 (6.82%) Git
2 266 (5.38%) JIRA
3 158 (3.20%) Jenkins
4 123 (2.49%) GitLab
5 91 (1.84%) Selenium
6 77 (1.56%) Visual Studio
7 64 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 62 (1.26%) SpecFlow
9 45 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 38 (0.77%) Postman
11 34 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 32 (0.65%) Maven
13 26 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 26 (0.53%) JMeter
14 24 (0.49%) Cucumber
15 19 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 19 (0.38%) NUnit
16 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 17 (0.34%) Artifactory
17 17 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 1,146 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 1,007 (20.38%) Finance
3 472 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 442 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 302 (6.11%) Banking
6 176 (3.56%) Front Office
7 131 (2.65%) Marketing
8 122 (2.47%) Retail
9 97 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 91 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 81 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 71 (1.44%) Legal
13 65 (1.32%) Law
14 63 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
15 61 (1.23%) Back Office
16 58 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 51 (1.03%) Electronics
18 44 (0.89%) Investment Banking
19 42 (0.85%) Financial Institution
20 38 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 963 (19.49%) Developer
2 810 (16.40%) Architect
3 521 (10.55%) Senior
4 441 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
5 350 (7.09%) Analyst
6 323 (6.54%) Data Engineer
7 294 (5.95%) Lead
8 241 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
9 231 (4.68%) Consultant
10 210 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 204 (4.13%) Software Engineer
12 193 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 181 (3.66%) Senior Developer
14 180 (3.64%) .NET Developer
15 156 (3.16%) Azure Developer
16 146 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
17 142 (2.87%) Azure Architect
18 140 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
19 137 (2.77%) C# Developer
20 135 (2.73%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 671 (13.58%) .NET
2 287 (5.81%) React
3 210 (4.25%) .NET Core
4 198 (4.01%) XML
5 179 (3.62%) REST
6 177 (3.58%) HTML
7 161 (3.26%) AngularJS
8 160 (3.24%) .NET Framework
9 153 (3.10%) CSS
10 139 (2.81%) Web Services
11 121 (2.45%) Node.js
12 118 (2.39%) ASP.NET
12 118 (2.39%) PySpark
13 117 (2.37%) JSON
13 117 (2.37%) Kafka
14 103 (2.09%) ARM Templates
15 100 (2.02%) RESTful
16 88 (1.78%) Redux
17 84 (1.70%) YAML
18 66 (1.34%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 209 (4.23%) Product Ownership
2 142 (2.87%) Public Cloud
3 135 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 126 (2.55%) Cloud Native
5 119 (2.41%) PKI
6 110 (2.23%) Fixed Income
7 108 (2.19%) Hedge funds
8 88 (1.78%) Derivative
9 87 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 86 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 76 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 75 (1.52%) Equities
13 70 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 70 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 57 (1.15%) Private Cloud
15 54 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 48 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
17 47 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
17 47 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 738 (14.94%) Windows
2 378 (7.65%) Linux
3 297 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 163 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 80 (1.62%) Unix
6 74 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 72 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 65 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 46 (0.93%) Android
11 44 (0.89%) Mac OS
12 39 (0.79%) Apple iOS
13 31 (0.63%) VMS
14 20 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.34%) Solaris
15 17 (0.34%) Windows 7
15 17 (0.34%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.22%) Mac OS X
16 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,724 (34.90%) DevOps
2 1,373 (27.79%) Agile
3 744 (15.06%) CI/CD
4 643 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 576 (11.66%) Migration
6 496 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
7 446 (9.03%) Software Engineering
8 439 (8.89%) Analytics
9 397 (8.04%) Scrum
10 338 (6.84%) Data Modelling
11 328 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 305 (6.17%) ETL
13 283 (5.73%) Full Stack Development
14 282 (5.71%) ITIL
15 277 (5.61%) Microservices
16 270 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 264 (5.34%) Cybersecurity
17 264 (5.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 258 (5.22%) Test Automation
19 247 (5.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 964 (19.51%) SQL
2 886 (17.94%) Python
3 734 (14.86%) C#
4 668 (13.52%) PowerShell
5 364 (7.37%) JavaScript
6 278 (5.63%) Java
7 243 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 159 (3.22%) Bicep
9 135 (2.73%) Bash
10 93 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 59 (1.19%) Scala
12 57 (1.15%) C++
13 54 (1.09%) C
14 48 (0.97%) Go
15 39 (0.79%) R
16 36 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.67%) PHP
18 32 (0.65%) VBScript
19 30 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
20 28 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 756 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 564 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 492 (9.96%) Degree
4 245 (4.96%) DV Cleared
5 177 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 157 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 99 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 87 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (1.56%) CISSP
10 53 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 51 (1.03%) CCNP
12 50 (1.01%) CCNA
13 45 (0.91%) Master's Degree
14 44 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
15 41 (0.83%) CISM
16 22 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 20 (0.40%) PMP
19 16 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
20 15 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (4.39%) QA
2 132 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 84 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (1.50%) NIST
5 67 (1.36%) GDPR
6 55 (1.11%) SLA
7 50 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 49 (0.99%) 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 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.26%) GRC
15 11 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.16%) COBIT
16 8 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 6 (0.12%) ISO 22301
19 5 (0.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 839 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 324 (6.56%) Docker
3 190 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 119 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 114 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 71 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 36 (0.73%) vSphere
8 34 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.30%) XenApp
10 11 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 10 (0.20%) Firmware
12 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.16%) ACF2
13 8 (0.16%) IAG
13 8 (0.16%) RACF
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.12%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 475 (9.62%) Terraform
2 424 (8.58%) Kubernetes
3 258 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 209 (4.23%) Ansible
5 154 (3.12%) SCCM
6 96 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 81 (1.64%) SCOM
8 61 (1.23%) Puppet
9 58 (1.17%) Grafana
10 56 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 50 (1.01%) Prometheus
12 44 (0.89%) WSUS
13 36 (0.73%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.57%) vCenter Server
15 26 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
16 24 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
17 22 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
17 22 (0.45%) Kibana
18 19 (0.38%) Podman
19 18 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,663 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 318 (6.44%) Databricks
3 303 (6.13%) VMware
4 285 (5.77%) Oracle
5 189 (3.83%) Google
6 149 (3.02%) SAP
7 137 (2.77%) Cisco
8 105 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 93 (1.88%) Splunk
10 88 (1.78%) Citrix
11 74 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 68 (1.38%) CyberArk
13 65 (1.32%) F5
14 56 (1.13%) Atlassian
14 56 (1.13%) Salesforce
15 53 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 50 (1.01%) Veeam
17 48 (0.97%) Okta
18 47 (0.95%) Dell
19 44 (0.89%) HP