Azure Contracts in the Home Counties

Microsoft Azure
South East > Home Counties

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 2 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 50.00% 8.33% 28.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 66.67% 22.22% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 33
10th Percentile £476 - £413
25th Percentile £497 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £572 - £675
90th Percentile £589 - £775
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

All Cloud Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6 9 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 75.00% 37.50% 61.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 59
10th Percentile £476 £785 £413
25th Percentile £497 £988 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £1,100 £650
Median % change year-on-year -51.14% +69.23% -18.75%
75th Percentile £572 - £675
90th Percentile £589 - £800
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Home Counties

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the Home Counties

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the Home Counties

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Home Counties over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the Home Counties

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Okta