Azure Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 9 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure 27 23 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 11.95% 9.62% 12.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.94% 32.39% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 36
10th Percentile £405 £480 £386
25th Percentile £416 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.75% +30.71%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £558
90th Percentile £584 £650 £616
East of England median daily rate £455 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.21% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £24.62 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +27.27% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 53 71 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 23.45% 29.71% 42.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 44 113
10th Percentile £273 £202 £213
25th Percentile £405 £306 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +1.01% +4.49%
75th Percentile £552 £548 £588
90th Percentile £649 £621 £631
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £20.03 £20.87
25th Percentile - £21.60 -
Median hourly rate £88.00 £24.62 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +257.43% -8.75% +17.30%
75th Percentile - £26.78 £55.81
90th Percentile - £48.88 £71.37
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -14.21% +22.58% +3.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Essex

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Essex

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Essex

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Essex 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
Colchester +6 16 £500 +177.78% 5
Chelmsford +1 1 £575 -11.54% 2
Brentwood - 1 - - 5
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 10 (37.04%) IIS
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.70%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Utilities
1 1 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) OCI
3 1 (3.70%) PaaS
3 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 3 (11.11%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.70%) LAN
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
1 3 (11.11%) QlikView
2 1 (3.70%) Big Data
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (3.70%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Fiddler
General
1 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (11.11%) Local Government
1 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Web Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Applications Support
3 4 (14.81%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Systems Support Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Web Applications Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Web Applications Support
3 4 (14.81%) Web Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Qlik Developer
4 3 (11.11%) QlikView Developer
4 3 (11.11%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 3 (11.11%) SAML
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Avro
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) NumPy
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.70%) Pandas
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 5 (18.52%) Analytics
3 5 (18.52%) Migration
4 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (11.11%) Line Management
5 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 2 (7.41%) ArchiMate
6 2 (7.41%) BPMN
6 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (7.41%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.41%) ETL
6 2 (7.41%) IT4IT
6 2 (7.41%) TOGAF
7 1 (3.70%) Data Management
7 1 (3.70%) ITIL
7 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Jython
4 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) COBIT
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) SCOM
2 6 (22.22%) SCCM
3 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Clearswift
1 6 (22.22%) Proofpoint
2 5 (18.52%) F5
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Sparx
3 1 (3.70%) VMware