Azure Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure 44 71 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 9.65% 13.37% 13.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.77% 45.22% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 58 63
10th Percentile £185 £475 £363
25th Percentile £241 £513 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.66% +6.82% +18.60%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £650
90th Percentile £624 - £698
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 123 157 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 26.97% 29.57% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 123 130
10th Percentile £187 £400 £223
25th Percentile £400 £500 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £588
90th Percentile £623 £700 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £15.20 - £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.50 £16.09
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.27% -11.40%
75th Percentile - £22.50 £18.97
90th Percentile - - £21.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £43.25 £18.88
% change year-on-year -65.32% +129.14% -7.93%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sheffield -8 37 £425 -29.17% 35
Doncaster 0 6 £488 - 4
Barnsley -11 1 £425 - 3
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (13.64%) Confluence
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) GCP
2 22 (50.00%) AWS
3 17 (38.64%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.91%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.64%) Apigee
5 6 (13.64%) GitHub
5 6 (13.64%) Kong
6 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) DNS
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
1 6 (13.64%) HTTP
1 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
1 6 (13.64%) VPN
2 5 (11.36%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Git
2 7 (15.91%) JIRA
3 6 (13.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (13.64%) CircleCI
3 6 (13.64%) GitLab
3 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.64%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Law
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (13.64%) Architect
3 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Database Specialist
4 4 (9.09%) DBA
4 4 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) IT Support
4 4 (9.09%) MongoDB DBA
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Developer
5 3 (6.82%) IT Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) XML
2 6 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (13.64%) JSON
2 6 (13.64%) YAML
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) JSP
3 1 (2.27%) LDAP
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.27%) Servlets
3 1 (2.27%) SOAP
3 1 (2.27%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Data Structures
1 6 (13.64%) Replication
2 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
2 12 (27.27%) Windows 10
3 8 (18.18%) Linux
3 8 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (27.27%) Task Automation
3 11 (25.00%) DevOps
3 11 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 8 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 7 (15.91%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
5 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) Scrum
6 6 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.64%) Performance Metrics
6 6 (13.64%) Project Management
6 6 (13.64%) Use Case
6 6 (13.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) Python
2 15 (34.09%) Bash
3 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) Perl
6 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) ACF2
3 1 (2.27%) IAG
3 1 (2.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.64%) Ansible
3 6 (13.64%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (13.64%) Grafana
3 6 (13.64%) Kibana
3 6 (13.64%) logstash
3 6 (13.64%) Progress Chef
3 6 (13.64%) Prometheus
3 6 (13.64%) Puppet
3 6 (13.64%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.27%) SCCM
4 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) Splunk
3 2 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco
4 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow