Azure Developer Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Developer
England > North West

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the North West is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 141 165
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 -31
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 6 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.49% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 16
10th Percentile £369 - £420
25th Percentile £397 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +0.96% +22.35%
75th Percentile £497 £563 £557
90th Percentile £513 - £616
England median daily rate £580 £570 £530
% change year-on-year +1.75% +7.55% +8.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,616 3,047 3,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 94.63% 96.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 2,185 2,841
10th Percentile £280 £300 £206
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 136 177
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.13 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the North West

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the North West

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the North West

Azure Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Developer within the North West 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
Manchester +5 4 £488 -7.14% 5
Merseyside +18 1 £400 -
Cheshire +3 1 £475 -18.03% 1
Azure Developer
England

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Azure Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) .NET
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (33.33%) QA
5 2 (33.33%) CRM
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) OCI
6 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) OOD
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) SDET
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle