Azure Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 360 657 462
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 11.37% 18.04% 12.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.44% 51.98% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 549 334
10th Percentile £213 £400 £319
25th Percentile £420 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £575
90th Percentile £700 £719 £662
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 2
10th Percentile - £50.69 £22.70
25th Percentile - £59.95 £26.76
Median hourly rate - £65.35 £34.14
Median % change year-on-year - +91.45% -32.74%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £42.14
90th Percentile - - £46.57
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
% change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +2.90%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 810 1,264 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.58% 34.72% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,020 856
10th Percentile £205 £285 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £590
90th Percentile £688 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 58 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.45 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £19.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 £55.43 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.84% +121.70% -44.44%
75th Percentile £34.88 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £52.36
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the South West

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -2 119 £500 -4.31% 116
Wiltshire -8 104 £500 -16.67% 26
Gloucestershire +4 76 £525 - 64
Dorset -7 16 £185 -63.04% 19
Devon 0 14 £313 -37.50% 37
Somerset -17 9 £450 -29.69% 34
Cornwall -6 1 £225 -59.64% 8
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 76 (21.11%) SharePoint
2 42 (11.67%) Confluence
3 35 (9.72%) SharePoint Server
4 30 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.11%) CMS
5 4 (1.11%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.83%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.28%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (18.33%) AWS
2 64 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (16.94%) Power Platform
4 55 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 42 (11.67%) Azure Stack
7 21 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (4.72%) Power Automate
10 16 (4.44%) PaaS
11 13 (3.61%) GCP
12 11 (3.06%) IaaS
12 11 (3.06%) OneDrive
12 11 (3.06%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.22%) Azure Storage
15 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (1.39%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 61 (16.94%) Firewall
2 35 (9.72%) BGP
3 14 (3.89%) WAN
4 13 (3.61%) LAN
4 13 (3.61%) VPN
5 12 (3.33%) Intranet
6 9 (2.50%) DNS
7 8 (2.22%) SAN
8 6 (1.67%) FTP
9 4 (1.11%) Network Security
10 3 (0.83%) DHCP
10 3 (0.83%) Skype
11 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.56%) DMZ
11 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.28%) MQTT
12 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
12 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.83%) Power BI
2 30 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.61%) Tableau
6 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.39%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.83%) GIS
12 2 (0.56%) Metadata
12 2 (0.56%) OLAP
12 2 (0.56%) OLTP
13 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 51 (14.17%) JIRA
2 10 (2.78%) Git
3 8 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.22%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.67%) Artifactory
5 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.11%) NUnit
6 4 (1.11%) Postman
6 4 (1.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.56%) GitLab
7 2 (0.56%) Snyk
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) git-flow
8 1 (0.28%) MSI
8 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 100 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.44%) Finance
2 34 (9.44%) Public Sector
3 22 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (4.72%) Manufacturing
6 15 (4.17%) Legal
6 15 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.61%) Electronics
7 13 (3.61%) Marketing
8 9 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.11%) Banking
9 4 (1.11%) German Language
9 4 (1.11%) Local Government
9 4 (1.11%) Military
10 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (18.61%) Architect
2 49 (13.61%) Analyst
3 48 (13.33%) Developer
4 24 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (6.39%) Senior
6 22 (6.11%) Data Engineer
7 21 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (4.72%) Microsoft Engineer
9 16 (4.44%) SOC Analyst
10 15 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.89%) SharePoint Developer
11 14 (3.89%) Technical Architect
12 13 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Infrastructure Technician
14 10 (2.78%) Administrator
14 10 (2.78%) Consultant
14 10 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
14 10 (2.78%) IT Support
15 9 (2.50%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.17%) .NET
2 14 (3.89%) React
3 13 (3.61%) AngularJS
4 12 (3.33%) CSS
5 10 (2.78%) REST
6 9 (2.50%) SPFx
7 8 (2.22%) ASP.NET
7 8 (2.22%) Spring
7 8 (2.22%) YAML
8 7 (1.94%) HTML
8 7 (1.94%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.39%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.39%) Blazor
9 5 (1.39%) PySpark
10 4 (1.11%) JSON
10 4 (1.11%) Middleware
10 4 (1.11%) XML
11 3 (0.83%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (0.83%) HTML5
11 3 (0.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.78%) Private Cloud
2 18 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.06%) NHS
4 11 (3.06%) Replication
5 10 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.94%) IoT
8 6 (1.67%) PKI
8 6 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.11%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 101 (28.06%) Windows
2 26 (7.22%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.67%) Linux
4 15 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.78%) VMS
6 9 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.94%) Android
7 7 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.67%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.56%) Unix
9 2 (0.56%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.56%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.28%) Solaris
10 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (23.61%) DevOps
2 79 (21.94%) Agile
3 62 (17.22%) ITIL
4 51 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
5 50 (13.89%) Migration
6 47 (13.06%) Network Management
7 45 (12.50%) Service Management
8 36 (10.00%) Capacity Management
8 36 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 36 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
9 34 (9.44%) ITSM
10 31 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 31 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (6.94%) Project Management
14 23 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (6.39%) Programme Management
14 23 (6.39%) SIEM
15 22 (6.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 49 (13.61%) SQL
2 37 (10.28%) C#
3 34 (9.44%) Python
4 33 (9.17%) PowerShell
5 30 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.72%) C
7 14 (3.89%) Bash
8 13 (3.61%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.33%) Java
9 12 (3.33%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.67%) Bicep
11 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.83%) Julia
12 3 (0.83%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) Go
13 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 166 (46.11%) Security Cleared
2 86 (23.89%) DV Cleared
3 82 (22.78%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.50%) Degree
5 10 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.11%) CISSP
9 4 (1.11%) HND
9 4 (1.11%) MCP
10 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.83%) CISM
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.56%) CEH
11 2 (0.56%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.56%) SANS
12 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.83%) Government Security Classifications
2 34 (9.44%) QA
3 8 (2.22%) NCSC
4 6 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.67%) NIST
5 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.11%) SLA
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 23 (6.39%) Docker
3 19 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.50%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.83%) vSphere
8 1 (0.28%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.28%) XenApp
8 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (11.11%) Terraform
2 26 (7.22%) Ansible
2 26 (7.22%) SCOM
3 22 (6.11%) Kubernetes
4 19 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.50%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.67%) SCCM
8 5 (1.39%) Grafana
8 5 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.39%) Puppet
9 4 (1.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 3 (0.83%) OPNET
11 2 (0.56%) Argo
11 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.56%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.28%) Kibana
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 158 (43.89%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.39%) VMware
3 39 (10.83%) Atlassian
4 17 (4.72%) Veeam
5 16 (4.44%) SAP
6 15 (4.17%) Cisco
7 12 (3.33%) CA
8 11 (3.06%) Citrix
8 11 (3.06%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.78%) Databricks
10 8 (2.22%) Splunk
11 6 (1.67%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.39%) Google
13 4 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.11%) Dell
13 4 (1.11%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.11%) Okta
14 3 (0.83%) Juniper
14 3 (0.83%) Oracle
14 3 (0.83%) Salesforce