Azure Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 310 609 748
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.36% 17.70% 14.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.86% 49.51% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 437 590
10th Percentile £282 £313 £356
25th Percentile £375 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £21.51 £13.84 -
25th Percentile £23.85 £17.72 £32.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -24.34% +61.22%
75th Percentile £44.13 - £37.50
90th Percentile £50.65 £28.59 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
% change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +2.90%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 676 1,230 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.78% 35.76% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 880 1,225
10th Percentile £199 £213 £204
25th Percentile £325 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £23.75 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £50.04 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Midlands -3 232 £550 +7.84% 241
East Midlands -5 75 £475 +5.56% 153
Azure
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 34 (10.97%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.97%) CMS
4 3 (0.97%) Drupal
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) IIS
5 2 (0.65%) WordPress
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.97%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (0.97%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.32%) Magento
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (17.10%) AWS
2 53 (17.10%) Power Platform
3 52 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (6.77%) GCP
7 20 (6.45%) Serverless
8 18 (5.81%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (5.48%) Azure Functions
9 17 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (5.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (5.48%) Power Automate
10 16 (5.16%) PowerApps
10 16 (5.16%) SaaS
11 15 (4.84%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (4.84%) OneDrive
12 14 (4.52%) PaaS
13 9 (2.90%) Azure App Service
13 9 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.03%) Firewall
2 24 (7.74%) DNS
3 20 (6.45%) Network Security
3 20 (6.45%) VPN
4 11 (3.55%) SAN
5 10 (3.23%) LAN
5 10 (3.23%) WAN
6 8 (2.58%) NetScaler
7 6 (1.94%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.61%) SSL
9 3 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.97%) NAS
9 3 (0.97%) VLAN
9 3 (0.97%) VoIP
9 3 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.97%) Wireless
10 2 (0.65%) DMZ
10 2 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.65%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.32%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.58%) Power BI
2 30 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (4.19%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.90%) Big Data
7 7 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (1.61%) MySQL
9 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.29%) Metadata
10 4 (1.29%) OLAP
11 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.97%) Tableau
12 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.48%) Git
2 11 (3.55%) JIRA
3 7 (2.26%) Selenium
4 6 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.61%) NUnit
5 5 (1.61%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.97%) Hudson
6 3 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.97%) Subversion
7 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.65%) kappa
7 2 (0.65%) Moq
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 79 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.48%) Finance
3 29 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.13%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.23%) Legal
5 10 (3.23%) Retail
6 8 (2.58%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Banking
9 4 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.97%) Games
10 3 (0.97%) German Language
10 3 (0.97%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Electronics
11 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.32%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (17.74%) Architect
2 49 (15.81%) Developer
3 33 (10.65%) Analyst
4 23 (7.42%) Senior
4 23 (7.42%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (7.10%) Data Engineer
6 21 (6.77%) Azure Architect
7 17 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.52%) Consultant
9 13 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.87%) Lead
11 11 (3.55%) Administrator
12 10 (3.23%) IT Manager
12 10 (3.23%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 10 (3.23%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.23%) Test Analyst
13 9 (2.90%) Azure Developer
13 9 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
13 9 (2.90%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.03%) .NET
2 10 (3.23%) OAuth
3 9 (2.90%) SAML
4 8 (2.58%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.94%) ADO
5 6 (1.94%) RESTful
6 5 (1.61%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.61%) GraphQL
6 5 (1.61%) HTML
6 5 (1.61%) JSON
6 5 (1.61%) LDAP
6 5 (1.61%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.61%) React
6 5 (1.61%) XML
7 4 (1.29%) CSS
7 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.29%) SOAP
7 4 (1.29%) Web Services
8 3 (0.97%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.23%) Cloud Native
1 10 (3.23%) Product Ownership
1 10 (3.23%) Public Cloud
2 8 (2.58%) PKI
3 7 (2.26%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.26%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.26%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.26%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.94%) Digital Signage
4 6 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.29%) Clustering
6 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (1.29%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.29%) Replication
7 3 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.65%) Windows
2 34 (10.97%) Windows Server
3 19 (6.13%) Windows 10
4 15 (4.84%) Linux
5 14 (4.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (3.55%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.26%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.61%) Android
10 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.97%) VMS
11 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Unix
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (25.48%) DevOps
2 66 (21.29%) Agile
3 53 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (14.19%) Migration
5 40 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (10.97%) Analytics
7 31 (10.00%) ITIL
8 29 (9.35%) CI/CD
9 23 (7.42%) Change Management
9 23 (7.42%) ETL
10 22 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (6.45%) Data Modelling
12 20 (6.45%) Decision-Making
13 19 (6.13%) Computer Science
13 19 (6.13%) Service Management
14 18 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (5.81%) Machine Learning
15 17 (5.48%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 66 (21.29%) SQL
2 45 (14.52%) PowerShell
3 27 (8.71%) C#
4 25 (8.06%) Python
5 11 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.58%) Bicep
7 8 (2.58%) Swift
8 7 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.61%) Bash
10 5 (1.61%) Java
11 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.97%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.32%) C
14 1 (0.32%) C++
14 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.32%) Scala
14 1 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 32 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.68%) Degree
2 30 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.81%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.23%) CISSP
6 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.58%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.29%) ISEB
10 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.29%) PMP
11 3 (0.97%) CCNA
11 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.10%) QA
2 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.29%) SLA
4 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 57 (18.39%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.52%) Docker
5 12 (3.87%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (2.58%) XenApp
7 8 (2.58%) XenDesktop
8 5 (1.61%) vSphere
9 4 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (6.45%) Terraform
3 16 (5.16%) SCCM
4 13 (4.19%) Kubernetes
5 12 (3.87%) Ansible
6 5 (1.61%) SysTrack
7 3 (0.97%) Autotask
7 3 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.97%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.65%) Kibana
8 2 (0.65%) logstash
9 1 (0.32%) linkerd
9 1 (0.32%) Packer
9 1 (0.32%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.32%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 118 (38.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.77%) VMware
3 19 (6.13%) Databricks
4 15 (4.84%) Citrix
5 12 (3.87%) Oracle
6 11 (3.55%) Okta
6 11 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.90%) NetApp
8 6 (1.94%) Cisco
8 6 (1.94%) F5
8 6 (1.94%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.61%) Informatica
9 5 (1.61%) New Relic
9 5 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.61%) SAP
10 4 (1.29%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.29%) HP
10 4 (1.29%) JD Edwards
10 4 (1.29%) Workday