Azure Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 5 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 201 353 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 13.09% 18.58% 14.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.58% 47.38% 39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 277 307
10th Percentile £328 £368 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - £20.00 £21.50
25th Percentile - £57.50 £23.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year - +80.65% -
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £18.00 £65.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -72.52% +191.11% -60.87%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 565 745 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.78% 39.21% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 562 768
10th Percentile £313 £325 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 17
10th Percentile £18.18 £20.00 -
25th Percentile £22.25 £30.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +271.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £71.87 £70.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 - £39.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £18.59
% change year-on-year -54.11% +88.25% +2.07%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Manchester 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
Wigan -1 6 £400 - 4
Oldham - 3 £450 - 1
Salford +3 2 £255 -60.77% 9
Bolton -1 2 £525 -
Altrincham +2 1 £563 +18.42% 6
Bury - 1 £325 - 1
Cheadle - 1 £400 - 2
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.49%) Confluence
4 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.00%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.00%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.00%) SAP Retail
2 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.37%) AWS
2 39 (19.40%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (11.44%) Power Platform
5 21 (10.45%) GCP
6 15 (7.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (5.97%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.47%) SaaS
9 8 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (3.98%) IaaS
10 7 (3.48%) PaaS
11 6 (2.99%) Mimecast
12 5 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.49%) Serverless
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Stack
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.99%) GitHub
13 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.98%) LAN
1 10 (4.98%) VPN
1 10 (4.98%) WAN
2 9 (4.48%) Firewall
3 8 (3.98%) OSPF
4 7 (3.48%) Ethernet
4 7 (3.48%) Wireless
4 7 (3.48%) Wireless Security
5 6 (2.99%) DNS
6 5 (2.49%) Network Security
6 5 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.49%) VLAN
7 3 (1.49%) VoIP
8 2 (1.00%) SAN
8 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.50%) BGP
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.50%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (7.96%) Power BI
3 11 (5.47%) Data Lake
3 11 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.48%) MySQL
5 7 (3.48%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.49%) GIS
9 2 (1.00%) Big Data
9 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.00%) Redis
9 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.48%) JIRA
2 7 (3.48%) Git
3 6 (2.99%) GitLab
3 6 (2.99%) Hudson
4 4 (1.99%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.99%) Selenium
5 3 (1.49%) Maven
5 3 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.49%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.00%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.00%) Postman
7 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.50%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.50%) Gradle
7 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.50%) Mockito
7 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.45%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.46%) Finance
4 11 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.99%) Law
5 6 (2.99%) Manufacturing
5 6 (2.99%) Retail
6 5 (2.49%) Banking
7 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.99%) Legal
8 2 (1.00%) German Language
8 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Advertising
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) French Language
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (18.91%) Architect
2 32 (15.92%) Developer
3 27 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (11.44%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (8.46%) Senior
7 16 (7.96%) Analyst
8 15 (7.46%) Lead
9 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) .NET Developer
10 9 (4.48%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.98%) Azure Architect
12 7 (3.48%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.48%) Support Engineer
13 6 (2.99%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.99%) Software Engineer
14 5 (2.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.49%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.46%) .NET
2 8 (3.98%) REST
3 7 (3.48%) HTML
4 6 (2.99%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.99%) Entity Framework
4 6 (2.99%) Node.js
4 6 (2.99%) RESTful
5 5 (2.49%) CSS
5 5 (2.49%) JSON
5 5 (2.49%) React
5 5 (2.49%) XML
6 4 (1.99%) PySpark
6 4 (1.99%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.99%) SOAP
7 3 (1.49%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.49%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.49%) Kafka
8 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.00%) pytest
8 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.47%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.99%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.99%) Clustering
3 4 (1.99%) Data Structures
3 4 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.99%) Reference Data
3 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.00%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.44%) Linux
2 24 (11.94%) Windows
3 7 (3.48%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.99%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.00%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.50%) VMS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.82%) DevOps
2 60 (29.85%) Agile
3 29 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (13.93%) CI/CD
4 28 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (13.43%) Migration
6 20 (9.95%) Data Management
7 19 (9.45%) Analytics
8 18 (8.96%) Architectural Patterns
9 17 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (7.96%) Project Delivery
11 15 (7.46%) Data Modelling
11 15 (7.46%) ETL
12 14 (6.97%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (5.97%) Computer Science
13 12 (5.97%) Customer Service
13 12 (5.97%) Microservices
13 12 (5.97%) Scrum
13 12 (5.97%) Software Engineering
14 11 (5.47%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.42%) SQL
2 26 (12.94%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.44%) Python
4 20 (9.95%) C#
5 13 (6.47%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (3.98%) Java
8 6 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.49%) PHP
10 4 (1.99%) C
10 4 (1.99%) Go
11 3 (1.49%) Bash
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) Fortran
13 1 (0.50%) Perl
13 1 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.95%) Degree
3 18 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.98%) CISSP
6 9 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.48%) CCNA
6 9 (4.48%) CISM
7 8 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.49%) CCNP
9 2 (1.00%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.00%) CCIE
9 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.00%) MCITP
9 2 (1.00%) MCSE
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.97%) QA
2 11 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.49%) NIST
5 4 (1.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (14.43%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.47%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.49%) Docker
4 5 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (12.94%) Terraform
2 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (3.98%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.99%) Ansible
5 4 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.99%) SCCM
6 3 (1.49%) Autotask
6 3 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.49%) Grafana
6 3 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 63 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.45%) VMware
3 13 (6.47%) Databricks
4 9 (4.48%) Oracle
5 8 (3.98%) Sophos
6 6 (2.99%) Cisco
7 5 (2.49%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.99%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.99%) Google
8 4 (1.99%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.49%) Apple
9 3 (1.49%) Citrix
9 3 (1.49%) Datto
9 3 (1.49%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) Splunk
10 2 (1.00%) iManage
10 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.00%) Tufin
10 2 (1.00%) Zscaler