Azure Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Azure
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 61 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.46% 19.74% 20.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.74% 58.65% 58.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 49 57
10th Percentile £161 £404 £263
25th Percentile £216 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +9.29% -8.50%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £525
90th Percentile £581 £675 £638
North West median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £16.40 - -
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £19.13 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £19.20 - -
North West median hourly rate £18.00 £65.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -72.52% +191.11% -61.21%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 46 104 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.54% 33.66% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 79 79
10th Percentile £143 £303 £171
25th Percentile £172 £416 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £236 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -52.75% +17.65% +28.79%
75th Percentile £388 £550 £500
90th Percentile £444 £675 £638
North West median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile - £16.21 £14.63
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £17.63 £18.75 £17.81
90th Percentile £18.80 £23.88 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £23.06
% change year-on-year -56.94% +61.79% +33.11%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Merseyside over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Liverpool -13 10 £413 -13.16% 31
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Mimecast
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) MCP
3 2 (20.00%) MCSE
3 2 (20.00%) MOS
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Sophos