Azure Storage Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 402 471
Rank change year-on-year +33 +69 -57
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 32 28 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.38% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 25
10th Percentile £504 £431 £413
25th Percentile £583 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +9.09% +20.55%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £638
90th Percentile - £794 £650
UK median daily rate £605 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +10.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Storage falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East +29 25 £605 -13.57% 5
South West +3 4 £513 -33.87% 12
North of England +9 3 £513 +7.89% 3
North West - 3 £513 - 1
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (65.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (78.13%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (65.63%) Entra ID
3 21 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (68.75%) Firewall
2 21 (65.63%) DHCP
2 21 (65.63%) DNS
3 4 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 24 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (46.88%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (43.75%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (43.75%) Support Specialist
4 9 (28.13%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (25.00%) Developer
6 7 (21.88%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (21.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 7 (21.88%) Support Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
7 4 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Applications Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
8 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared SharePoint Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.25%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (65.63%) ARM Templates
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) SPFx
3 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
3 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.25%) pytest
3 2 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (65.63%) PKI
1 21 (65.63%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Linux
2 21 (65.63%) Windows
2 21 (65.63%) Windows Server
2 21 (65.63%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (65.63%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (6.25%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) DevOps
2 24 (75.00%) Agile
3 23 (71.88%) CI/CD
3 23 (71.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (65.63%) Analytics
4 21 (65.63%) Identity Management
4 21 (65.63%) ITIL
4 21 (65.63%) Log Analytics
4 21 (65.63%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 21 (65.63%) Privileged Identity Management
4 21 (65.63%) RBAC
4 21 (65.63%) Release Management
4 21 (65.63%) Service Management
5 4 (12.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
5 4 (12.50%) Migration
5 4 (12.50%) OOP
5 4 (12.50%) SOLID
6 3 (9.38%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (9.38%) Scrum
6 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (90.63%) C#
2 22 (68.75%) PowerShell
3 21 (65.63%) Bicep
3 21 (65.63%) VB
3 21 (65.63%) VBScript
4 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (90.63%) Security Cleared
2 28 (87.50%) SC Cleared
3 21 (65.63%) Degree
3 21 (65.63%) DV Cleared
3 21 (65.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (65.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (65.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (84.38%) Kubernetes
2 21 (65.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (65.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (65.63%) SCCM
2 21 (65.63%) SCOM
2 21 (65.63%) WSUS
3 3 (9.38%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft