Azure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,123 3,609 4,204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.34% 15.35% 13.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.21% 46.16% 42.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 2,734 3,191
10th Percentile £300 £350 £319
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 62 39
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.75 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.61 £24.62 £27.25
Median hourly rate £48.09 £60.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £55.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £59.90 £54.00
% change year-on-year -41.57% +10.93% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -4 580 £550 -2.22% 489
North of England -6 498 £500 -4.76% 631
South West -3 354 £500 -9.09% 330
Midlands -7 301 £525 +9.38% 493
North West -8 281 £490 -2.00% 351
Scotland +2 241 £460 -8.00% 165
West Midlands -5 221 £550 +4.76% 289
Yorkshire 0 190 £500 -9.09% 216
East of England -26 84 £475 +2.70% 195
East Midlands -4 78 £463 +2.78% 202
Wales +4 71 £500 - 101
North East 0 33 £533 -11.25% 68
Northern Ireland +8 21 £563 +32.35% 54
Isle of Man 0 5 £388 +96.20% 3
Azure
UK

Azure
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
1 167 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 133 (6.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (4.10%) Confluence
4 36 (1.70%) SharePoint Server
5 27 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.71%) Apache
6 15 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.61%) CMS
7 13 (0.61%) IIS
8 8 (0.38%) SAS
9 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) nginx
12 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.38%) Sketch
5 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.38%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.24%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.094%) Maximo
8 2 (0.094%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.094%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.094%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.047%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 484 (22.80%) AWS
2 410 (19.31%) Azure DevOps
3 330 (15.54%) Microsoft 365
4 269 (12.67%) Power Platform
5 234 (11.02%) Entra ID
6 151 (7.11%) GCP
7 144 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 98 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (4.33%) Serverless
10 79 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
11 78 (3.67%) SaaS
12 74 (3.49%) PaaS
13 70 (3.30%) Azure Functions
14 67 (3.16%) GitHub
14 67 (3.16%) IaaS
15 61 (2.87%) Power Automate
16 59 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
17 57 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 53 (2.50%) Azure Stack
19 52 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 201 (9.47%) Firewall
2 119 (5.61%) DNS
3 81 (3.82%) VPN
4 56 (2.64%) DHCP
4 56 (2.64%) SAN
5 55 (2.59%) SSL
6 54 (2.54%) WAN
7 49 (2.31%) LAN
7 49 (2.31%) Network Security
8 48 (2.26%) BGP
9 36 (1.70%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.89%) Wireless
11 18 (0.85%) OSPF
11 18 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.71%) VLAN
13 13 (0.61%) Wireshark
14 11 (0.52%) Intranet
15 10 (0.47%) MPLS
15 10 (0.47%) NetScaler
16 9 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (8.76%) Power BI
2 161 (7.58%) SQL Server
3 85 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 63 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 57 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 57 (2.68%) MySQL
7 54 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 49 (2.31%) NoSQL
9 40 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
10 35 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.37%) Tableau
12 27 (1.27%) Big Data
13 22 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 21 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 14 (0.66%) Redis
17 13 (0.61%) GIS
18 11 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 169 (7.96%) JIRA
2 121 (5.70%) Git
3 64 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.83%) Selenium
5 52 (2.45%) GitLab
6 38 (1.79%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.37%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.85%) Postman
11 13 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 13 (0.61%) NUnit
12 12 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.57%) Maven
12 12 (0.57%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.52%) Subversion
14 9 (0.42%) Hudson
14 9 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.42%) WebDriver
15 8 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 552 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 230 (10.83%) Finance
3 190 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 57 (2.68%) Banking
6 45 (2.12%) Manufacturing
7 44 (2.07%) Retail
8 37 (1.74%) Legal
9 32 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.41%) Marketing
12 29 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (1.27%) Law
13 27 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.71%) Electronics
16 10 (0.47%) Local Government
16 10 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 341 (16.06%) Architect
2 331 (15.59%) Developer
3 179 (8.43%) Analyst
4 171 (8.05%) Senior
5 144 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
6 130 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 114 (5.37%) Lead
8 108 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 93 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 73 (3.44%) Consultant
11 73 (3.44%) Support Engineer
12 71 (3.34%) Project Manager
13 67 (3.16%) .NET Developer
14 57 (2.68%) Azure Developer
15 56 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
16 55 (2.59%) Azure Architect
17 52 (2.45%) Administrator
18 47 (2.21%) Full Stack Developer
18 47 (2.21%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (9.94%) .NET
2 96 (4.52%) React
3 75 (3.53%) Web Services
4 60 (2.83%) REST
5 59 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 47 (2.21%) ARM Templates
7 44 (2.07%) CSS
7 44 (2.07%) RESTful
8 41 (1.93%) .NET Core
8 41 (1.93%) .NET Framework
8 41 (1.93%) HTML
9 39 (1.84%) XML
10 37 (1.74%) JSON
11 35 (1.65%) Kafka
12 32 (1.51%) Spring
13 31 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
14 28 (1.32%) YAML
15 27 (1.27%) Node.js
16 25 (1.18%) SailPoint
16 25 (1.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 89 (4.19%) PKI
2 85 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 83 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 45 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 39 (1.84%) Cloud Native
7 39 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 34 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 33 (1.55%) NHS
10 27 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 26 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.18%) Client/Server
12 25 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.08%) Replication
14 21 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
15 18 (0.85%) Mobile App
16 17 (0.80%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 425 (20.02%) Windows
2 210 (9.89%) Linux
3 183 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 113 (5.32%) Windows 10
5 68 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 41 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
8 39 (1.84%) Unix
9 38 (1.79%) Apple iOS
10 35 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (1.46%) Android
11 31 (1.46%) Mac OS
12 18 (0.85%) VMS
13 16 (0.75%) Windows XP
14 10 (0.47%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.28%) AIX
16 6 (0.28%) Solaris
16 6 (0.28%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (32.74%) DevOps
2 499 (23.50%) Agile
3 294 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (12.01%) CI/CD
5 241 (11.35%) Migration
6 202 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
7 173 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 173 (8.15%) ITIL
8 169 (7.96%) Analytics
9 150 (7.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 133 (6.26%) Project Management
11 126 (5.93%) Cybersecurity
12 125 (5.89%) Scrum
12 125 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 124 (5.84%) Test Automation
14 112 (5.28%) Microservices
15 108 (5.09%) Data Modelling
16 103 (4.85%) ETL
17 102 (4.80%) Service Management
18 101 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 334 (15.73%) SQL
2 269 (12.67%) Python
3 246 (11.59%) PowerShell
4 220 (10.36%) C#
5 123 (5.79%) Java
6 107 (5.04%) JavaScript
7 62 (2.92%) Bash
8 49 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 43 (2.03%) C
10 42 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.74%) Bicep
12 33 (1.55%) VBScript
13 30 (1.41%) Scala
14 27 (1.27%) PHP
15 24 (1.13%) VB
16 20 (0.94%) C++
17 16 (0.75%) Go
17 16 (0.75%) Perl
18 14 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 445 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 288 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 232 (10.93%) Degree
4 211 (9.94%) DV Cleared
5 72 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.65%) CCNA
10 30 (1.41%) CCNP
11 24 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.13%) CISSP
12 19 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (0.80%) MCSE
14 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.61%) CISM
17 11 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.79%) QA
2 39 (1.84%) Government Security Classifications
3 34 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 32 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.08%) SLA
6 21 (0.99%) NIST
7 17 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.75%) GDPR
8 16 (0.75%) NCSC
9 14 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
10 13 (0.61%) PMO
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.14%) COBIT
12 3 (0.14%) GRC
12 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.14%) WCAG
13 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.094%) GxP
13 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 419 (19.74%) Active Directory
2 143 (6.74%) Docker
3 119 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 76 (3.58%) Hyper-V
5 50 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
6 48 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.04%) vSphere
9 13 (0.61%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.38%) Terminal Services
11 8 (0.38%) XenApp
11 8 (0.38%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.24%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.24%) NFS
14 4 (0.19%) GPFS
15 3 (0.14%) HDFS
15 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 190 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 189 (8.90%) Terraform
3 152 (7.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 110 (5.18%) Ansible
5 95 (4.47%) SCCM
6 67 (3.16%) SCOM
7 55 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
8 44 (2.07%) Grafana
9 40 (1.88%) Prometheus
10 38 (1.79%) WSUS
11 32 (1.51%) vCenter Server
12 29 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (1.04%) Puppet
14 20 (0.94%) Progress Chef
15 18 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
16 15 (0.71%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
18 12 (0.57%) Argo
18 12 (0.57%) Istio
18 12 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 697 (32.83%) Microsoft
2 194 (9.14%) VMware
3 117 (5.51%) Oracle
4 96 (4.52%) Databricks
5 70 (3.30%) Cisco
6 57 (2.68%) Atlassian
7 53 (2.50%) Google
8 49 (2.31%) Citrix
9 43 (2.03%) SAP
10 40 (1.88%) Veeam
11 38 (1.79%) Splunk
12 36 (1.70%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.46%) ServiceNow
14 29 (1.37%) F5
15 26 (1.22%) Red Hat
16 25 (1.18%) CyberArk
16 25 (1.18%) HP
17 24 (1.13%) Dell
18 21 (0.99%) EMC
19 19 (0.89%) Okta