Azure Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 584 839 1,050
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.58% 14.79% 13.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.18% 49.41% 43.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 650 817
10th Percentile £375 £399 £338
25th Percentile £456 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £559 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +6.38% +7.97%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £613
90th Percentile £675 £750 £688
England median daily rate £545 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 10
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.01 £41.84
25th Percentile £23.52 £52.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £67.50 £57.83
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +16.73% +102.89%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.00 £64.66
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £67.74
England median hourly rate £35.00 £59.80 £47.89
% change year-on-year -41.47% +24.88% -5.65%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,322 1,698 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.95% 29.94% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,238 1,758
10th Percentile £250 £252 £204
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.51 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £22.88 £21.28
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +7.52% +1.07%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Thames Valley -2 335 £575 +3.84% 153
Berkshire -1 267 £600 +1.91% 68
Hampshire -15 102 £575 +4.55% 118
Surrey -7 58 £500 -6.98% 78
Buckinghamshire -6 44 £463 -11.90% 54
West Sussex +6 37 £475 -31.95% 22
Kent +1 27 £525 -8.70% 41
Oxfordshire -1 24 £465 +3.33% 31
East Sussex -3 11 £575 -17.86% 30
Sussex -1 5 £550 -8.33% 1
Home Counties +6 4 £538 -17.31%
Middlesex - 4 £275 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.74%) Confluence
3 13 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.51%) Apache
4 3 (0.51%) SAS
5 2 (0.34%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Kentico
5 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Jadu
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 14 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (1.37%) Teamcenter
5 6 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.34%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 146 (25.00%) AWS
2 139 (23.80%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (12.33%) Entra ID
4 59 (10.10%) Power Platform
5 55 (9.42%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (8.73%) Azure Monitor
7 49 (8.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (6.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 38 (6.51%) Serverless
9 35 (5.99%) Azure Functions
10 25 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (4.28%) PaaS
11 24 (4.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (3.77%) GCP
13 21 (3.60%) IaaS
14 19 (3.25%) OCI
15 18 (3.08%) SaaS
16 17 (2.91%) Power Automate
17 16 (2.74%) Azure Storage
17 16 (2.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.27%) Firewall
2 47 (8.05%) SSL
3 45 (7.71%) DNS
4 38 (6.51%) DHCP
5 26 (4.45%) SAN
6 17 (2.91%) Network Security
7 12 (2.05%) VPN
8 9 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.54%) WAN
9 6 (1.03%) Wireless
10 5 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.86%) LAN
10 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.68%) BGP
12 3 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.51%) IOS XR
12 3 (0.51%) MPLS
12 3 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.88%) Power BI
2 39 (6.68%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.88%) MySQL
10 8 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.86%) Redis
12 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.86%) Tableau
13 4 (0.68%) Big Data
13 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
13 4 (0.68%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (8.05%) Git
2 39 (6.68%) JIRA
3 32 (5.48%) Selenium
4 20 (3.42%) GitLab
4 20 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.40%) SonarQube
6 13 (2.23%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.05%) REST Assured
7 12 (2.05%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.03%) JMeter
9 6 (1.03%) Postman
9 6 (1.03%) Robot Framework
9 6 (1.03%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.34%) NUnit
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 144 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (8.90%) Finance
4 32 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 13 (2.23%) Law
5 13 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (1.54%) Police
8 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.03%) Legal
9 6 (1.03%) Marketing
10 5 (0.86%) Banking
10 5 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.68%) Automotive
11 4 (0.68%) Retail
12 3 (0.51%) Back Office
12 3 (0.51%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 101 (17.29%) Developer
2 97 (16.61%) Architect
3 64 (10.96%) Senior
4 42 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
6 37 (6.34%) Lead
7 36 (6.16%) Analyst
8 34 (5.82%) Azure Developer
9 32 (5.48%) Active Directory Support
10 30 (5.14%) Azure Specialist
11 28 (4.79%) Full Stack Developer
12 27 (4.62%) Active Directory Specialist
12 27 (4.62%) Support Specialist
13 24 (4.11%) Consultant
14 21 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.42%) Support Engineer
16 18 (3.08%) Project Manager
17 17 (2.91%) Administrator
18 16 (2.74%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.73%) .NET
2 47 (8.05%) Web Services
3 37 (6.34%) ARM Templates
4 30 (5.14%) React
5 26 (4.45%) REST
6 20 (3.42%) AngularJS
7 16 (2.74%) XML
8 15 (2.57%) JSON
9 14 (2.40%) .NET Core
9 14 (2.40%) Node.js
9 14 (2.40%) RESTful
10 13 (2.23%) CSS
10 13 (2.23%) Itk
10 13 (2.23%) Java EE
11 11 (1.88%) HTML
12 10 (1.71%) .NET Framework
13 9 (1.54%) Django
14 8 (1.37%) OpenID
14 8 (1.37%) YAML
15 7 (1.20%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.96%) PKI
2 29 (4.97%) Data Centre
3 28 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.57%) Client/Server
7 12 (2.05%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.20%) Smart Meter
11 4 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.51%) Replication
13 2 (0.34%) CCTV
13 2 (0.34%) Clustering
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 120 (20.55%) Windows
2 103 (17.64%) Linux
3 78 (13.36%) Windows Server
4 42 (7.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 41 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (5.48%) Windows 10
7 25 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.40%) Windows XP
10 11 (1.88%) Unix
11 6 (1.03%) Solaris
12 5 (0.86%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.68%) Android
13 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.68%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (42.47%) DevOps
2 142 (24.32%) Agile
3 90 (15.41%) CI/CD
3 90 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (10.45%) Analytics
6 53 (9.08%) Test Automation
7 48 (8.22%) Migration
8 47 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 46 (7.88%) Cryptography
10 45 (7.71%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (7.71%) Microservices
11 44 (7.53%) Key Management
12 43 (7.36%) ITIL
13 37 (6.34%) Project Management
14 36 (6.16%) Containerisation
15 35 (5.99%) Full Stack Development
16 33 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (5.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 89 (15.24%) Python
2 84 (14.38%) SQL
3 80 (13.70%) PowerShell
4 75 (12.84%) C#
5 33 (5.65%) Java
6 31 (5.31%) VBScript
7 27 (4.62%) JavaScript
8 20 (3.42%) VB
9 19 (3.25%) C
10 18 (3.08%) Bicep
10 18 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 13 (2.23%) Bash
12 10 (1.71%) C++
13 9 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.03%) Go
14 6 (1.03%) PHP
15 5 (0.86%) Scala
15 5 (0.86%) X++
16 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 123 (21.06%) SC Cleared
3 120 (20.55%) Degree
4 104 (17.81%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 18 (3.08%) CCNP
8 16 (2.74%) CCNA
8 16 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.68%) MCSE
10 4 (0.68%) PMP
11 3 (0.51%) CISSP
12 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.34%) PhD
12 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.74%) QA
2 9 (1.54%) GDPR
3 8 (1.37%) SLA
4 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.03%) NIST
5 6 (1.03%) PMO
6 5 (0.86%) NCSC
7 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) GxP
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 163 (27.91%) Active Directory
2 56 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (6.85%) Docker
4 26 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (3.94%) Hyper-V
6 18 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (2.23%) vSphere
9 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.34%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 51 (8.73%) Terraform
3 46 (7.88%) SCCM
4 38 (6.51%) Ansible
5 37 (6.34%) WSUS
6 35 (5.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (5.31%) SCOM
8 18 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (2.91%) vCenter Server
10 15 (2.57%) NetBackup
11 14 (2.40%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (2.05%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (2.05%) Podman
13 11 (1.88%) Istio
14 7 (1.20%) Grafana
14 7 (1.20%) Rancher
15 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
17 3 (0.51%) Prometheus
17 3 (0.51%) SELinux
Vendors
1 167 (28.60%) Microsoft
2 81 (13.87%) VMware
3 55 (9.42%) Oracle
4 29 (4.97%) Cisco
5 20 (3.42%) Palo Alto
6 18 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.91%) Veeam
8 16 (2.74%) Databricks
8 16 (2.74%) Dell
8 16 (2.74%) EMC
8 16 (2.74%) HP
9 15 (2.57%) Google
9 15 (2.57%) Symantec
10 14 (2.40%) 3PAR
10 14 (2.40%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (2.40%) Juniper
11 13 (2.23%) SAP
12 8 (1.37%) Citrix
12 8 (1.37%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.20%) Ab Initio