Azure Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 16 6
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 74 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.21% 9.12% 14.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.99% 43.53% 46.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 41 84
10th Percentile £394 £213 £377
25th Percentile £425 £300 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £425 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% -24.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £808 £788 £803
East of England median daily rate £455 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.21% - +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 3
10th Percentile - £35.00 £19.40
25th Percentile - - £25.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £70.75 -
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
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 77 170 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.29% 20.96% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 105 170
10th Percentile £272 £166 £145
25th Percentile £417 £231 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £647 £606 £625
90th Percentile £758 £788 £680
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 22 9
10th Percentile £15.19 - £16.90
25th Percentile £16.35 £21.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £65.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.52% +167.35% -34.67%
75th Percentile £20.19 £70.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £22.33 - £35.50
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Watford -9 4 £614 +14.19% 16
Hemel Hempstead +11 1 £550 -8.33% 3
Hatfield -8 1 £500 +21.21% 5
Stevenage -30 1 - - 8
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) DTS
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
1 1 (10.00%) Sensu
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (10.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Microservices
2 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow