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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 201 358 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 13.15% 18.85% 14.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.33% 47.93% 39.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 281 301
10th Percentile £329 £325 £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 569 747 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 37.21% 39.34% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 564 760
10th Percentile £313 £325 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +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 £18.50
% change year-on-year -54.11% +89.19% +6.14%

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 23 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 23 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 5 £400 - 8
Oldham - 3 £450 - 1
Salford +3 2 £255 -60.77% 9
Bolton -2 2 £525 -
Altrincham +2 1 £563 +18.42% 5
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 52 (25.87%) AWS
2 38 (18.91%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (11.94%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.95%) GCP
6 15 (7.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (5.97%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.47%) SaaS
10 9 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.98%) IaaS
12 6 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.99%) PaaS
13 5 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.49%) GitHub
13 5 (2.49%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.49%) Serverless
14 4 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.99%) Azure Stack
14 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.47%) VPN
2 10 (4.98%) Firewall
2 10 (4.98%) LAN
2 10 (4.98%) WAN
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%) DMZ
9 1 (0.50%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (8.46%) Power BI
3 12 (5.97%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.47%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.98%) MySQL
7 6 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.49%) GIS
10 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.00%) Big Data
11 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.00%) Redis
11 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.98%) JIRA
2 7 (3.48%) Git
3 6 (2.99%) GitLab
4 5 (2.49%) Hudson
5 4 (1.99%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.99%) Selenium
6 3 (1.49%) Maven
6 3 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.49%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.00%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.00%) Postman
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.50%) Gradle
8 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.50%) Mockito
8 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.46%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.46%) Finance
4 10 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.99%) Law
5 6 (2.99%) Retail
6 5 (2.49%) Banking
6 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
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 33 (16.42%) Developer
3 28 (13.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (11.94%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (8.46%) Analyst
7 16 (7.96%) Senior
8 15 (7.46%) Lead
9 11 (5.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.98%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.48%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.48%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.98%) Azure Architect
13 7 (3.48%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.48%) Support Engineer
14 6 (2.99%) Security Architect
15 5 (2.49%) Senior DevOps
15 5 (2.49%) Software Developer
15 5 (2.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.96%) .NET
2 8 (3.98%) REST
3 6 (2.99%) HTML
4 5 (2.49%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.49%) Entity Framework
4 5 (2.49%) JSON
4 5 (2.49%) Node.js
4 5 (2.49%) RESTful
4 5 (2.49%) XML
5 4 (1.99%) CSS
5 4 (1.99%) React
5 4 (1.99%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.49%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.49%) Kafka
6 3 (1.49%) PySpark
6 3 (1.49%) SOAP
6 3 (1.49%) YAML
7 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.00%) HTML5
7 2 (1.00%) Jest
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%) 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%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.00%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.00%) IoT
5 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.44%) Windows
2 24 (11.94%) Linux
3 7 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.99%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.00%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Unix
7 1 (0.50%) VMS
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.82%) DevOps
2 59 (29.35%) Agile
3 29 (14.43%) CI/CD
4 27 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (13.43%) Migration
4 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (9.95%) Data Management
6 19 (9.45%) Analytics
7 17 (8.46%) Architectural Patterns
7 17 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (7.96%) Project Delivery
9 15 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (7.46%) Data Modelling
9 15 (7.46%) ETL
10 13 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (6.47%) Computer Science
11 12 (5.97%) Customer Service
12 11 (5.47%) Microservices
12 11 (5.47%) Scrum
13 10 (4.98%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.92%) SQL
2 26 (12.94%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.44%) Python
4 19 (9.45%) C#
5 13 (6.47%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.48%) Java
8 5 (2.49%) PHP
8 5 (2.49%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.99%) Bash
9 4 (1.99%) Go
10 3 (1.49%) C
11 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Fortran
12 1 (0.50%) Perl
12 1 (0.50%) Ruby
12 1 (0.50%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (10.45%) Degree
1 21 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (4.98%) CISSP
5 9 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.48%) CCNA
5 9 (4.48%) CISM
6 8 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.49%) CCNP
7 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.00%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) CCIE
8 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.00%) MCITP
8 2 (1.00%) MCSE
9 1 (0.50%) GIAC
9 1 (0.50%) MCTS
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 28 (13.93%) Terraform
2 16 (7.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.48%) 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 66 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.45%) VMware
3 12 (5.97%) Databricks
4 9 (4.48%) Oracle
5 7 (3.48%) 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%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.00%) Tufin
10 2 (1.00%) Zscaler