Azure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,208 3,346 4,172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.35% 14.74% 13.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.40% 45.14% 41.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,654 2,510 3,219
10th Percentile £319 £350 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £629 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 60 30
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.57 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.18 £26.02 £33.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.28 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +34.69% -14.76%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £50.46
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £54.00
% change year-on-year -43.41% +14.54% +4.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure 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
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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 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 -3 602 £550 -4.35% 470
North of England -5 537 £500 -4.76% 691
South West -2 368 £500 -9.09% 302
North West -6 306 £500 - 390
Midlands -7 304 £550 +14.58% 428
Scotland +2 251 £450 -10.00% 157
West Midlands -8 209 £550 +5.77% 263
Yorkshire +1 200 £500 -9.09% 233
East Midlands -4 95 £488 +14.71% 163
East of England -33 81 £450 - 162
Wales +3 62 £500 -2.44% 77
North East -2 38 £533 -11.25% 70
Northern Ireland +1 30 £575 +35.29% 53
Isle of Man 0 5 £388 +96.20% 4
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
1 172 (7.79%) SharePoint
2 132 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (3.58%) Confluence
4 44 (1.99%) Apache Spark
5 28 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
6 23 (1.04%) Apache
7 16 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.68%) CMS
9 12 (0.54%) IIS
10 9 (0.41%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.18%) SAS
13 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Mendix
13 3 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.45%) Sketch
5 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.045%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.045%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 18 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.36%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.32%) Maximo
6 7 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.32%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.18%) SAP GTS
8 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.091%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.045%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.045%) Relativity
10 1 (0.045%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 558 (25.27%) AWS
2 408 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
3 326 (14.76%) Microsoft 365
4 296 (13.41%) Power Platform
5 258 (11.68%) Entra ID
6 178 (8.06%) GCP
7 143 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 105 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (4.66%) Serverless
10 92 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
11 88 (3.99%) GitHub
12 86 (3.89%) PaaS
13 82 (3.71%) SaaS
14 72 (3.26%) Azure Functions
15 66 (2.99%) Power Automate
16 65 (2.94%) IaaS
16 65 (2.94%) PowerApps
17 59 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (2.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 54 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 196 (8.88%) Firewall
2 120 (5.43%) DNS
3 83 (3.76%) VPN
4 56 (2.54%) WAN
5 55 (2.49%) SSL
6 52 (2.36%) DHCP
7 51 (2.31%) SAN
8 50 (2.26%) LAN
9 45 (2.04%) Network Security
10 43 (1.95%) BGP
11 40 (1.81%) TCP/IP
12 21 (0.95%) OSPF
12 21 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (0.95%) Wireless
13 17 (0.77%) VLAN
14 16 (0.72%) HTTP
15 13 (0.59%) Wireshark
16 11 (0.50%) Intranet
16 11 (0.50%) MPLS
16 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (9.33%) Power BI
2 163 (7.38%) SQL Server
3 89 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 66 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 60 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 52 (2.36%) MySQL
7 52 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 47 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 38 (1.72%) MongoDB
9 38 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (1.72%) Tableau
10 36 (1.63%) Big Data
11 29 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 21 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.95%) Hadoop
15 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 15 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 162 (7.34%) JIRA
2 145 (6.57%) Git
3 78 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 73 (3.31%) Selenium
5 63 (2.85%) GitLab
6 36 (1.63%) Visual Studio
7 30 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.31%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.09%) Bitbucket
10 23 (1.04%) Maven
11 22 (1.00%) Postman
12 14 (0.63%) Artifactory
12 14 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.54%) NUnit
13 12 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.50%) JMeter
14 11 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 573 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 259 (11.73%) Finance
3 223 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 67 (3.03%) Banking
6 42 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 36 (1.63%) Legal
8 35 (1.59%) Retail
9 33 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.27%) Law
11 27 (1.22%) Marketing
12 24 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.63%) Electronics
16 10 (0.45%) Automotive
16 10 (0.45%) Local Government
16 10 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 356 (16.12%) Architect
2 343 (15.53%) Developer
3 187 (8.47%) Analyst
4 167 (7.56%) Senior
5 142 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
6 118 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 113 (5.12%) Lead
8 106 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 104 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 100 (4.53%) Data Engineer
11 92 (4.17%) Consultant
12 74 (3.35%) Project Manager
12 74 (3.35%) Support Engineer
13 62 (2.81%) .NET Developer
14 58 (2.63%) Azure Architect
15 56 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
16 55 (2.49%) Azure Developer
17 51 (2.31%) Administrator
18 48 (2.17%) Technical Architect
19 46 (2.08%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (9.60%) .NET
2 97 (4.39%) React
3 83 (3.76%) REST
4 81 (3.67%) Web Services
5 60 (2.72%) CSS
6 59 (2.67%) RESTful
7 55 (2.49%) HTML
7 55 (2.49%) Kafka
8 54 (2.45%) .NET Framework
8 54 (2.45%) AngularJS
9 53 (2.40%) ARM Templates
10 48 (2.17%) XML
11 39 (1.77%) .NET Core
12 38 (1.72%) JSON
12 38 (1.72%) Spring Boot
13 34 (1.54%) Spring
14 33 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
14 33 (1.49%) YAML
15 30 (1.36%) Entity Framework
15 30 (1.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.21%) Public Cloud
2 92 (4.17%) PKI
3 81 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 38 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 34 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 33 (1.49%) Security Posture
10 32 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.36%) NHS
12 29 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (1.22%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.13%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 22 (1.00%) Replication
17 21 (0.95%) Client/Server
18 20 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 408 (18.48%) Windows
2 233 (10.55%) Linux
3 174 (7.88%) Windows Server
4 105 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 71 (3.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 67 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 43 (1.95%) Unix
8 39 (1.77%) Apple iOS
9 35 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 30 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 29 (1.31%) Mac OS
12 28 (1.27%) Android
13 18 (0.82%) VMS
14 16 (0.72%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.36%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.32%) Solaris
17 6 (0.27%) AIX
18 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
19 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (33.02%) DevOps
2 520 (23.55%) Agile
3 326 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
4 276 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 242 (10.96%) Migration
6 218 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
7 176 (7.97%) Analytics
8 171 (7.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 163 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 163 (7.38%) ITIL
10 142 (6.43%) Test Automation
11 141 (6.39%) Scrum
12 140 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
12 140 (6.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 132 (5.98%) Data Modelling
13 132 (5.98%) Project Management
14 123 (5.57%) Containerisation
15 122 (5.53%) Microservices
16 119 (5.39%) ETL
17 101 (4.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 348 (15.76%) SQL
2 299 (13.54%) Python
3 278 (12.59%) PowerShell
4 224 (10.14%) C#
5 157 (7.11%) Java
6 117 (5.30%) JavaScript
7 66 (2.99%) Bash
8 49 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.04%) Bicep
10 40 (1.81%) C
11 39 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 39 (1.77%) VBScript
12 31 (1.40%) VB
13 26 (1.18%) Scala
14 23 (1.04%) PHP
15 22 (1.00%) C++
16 20 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
17 17 (0.77%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.68%) Go
18 15 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 475 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 306 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 247 (11.19%) Degree
4 225 (10.19%) DV Cleared
5 73 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.63%) CCNA
9 29 (1.31%) CCNP
10 27 (1.22%) CISSP
11 25 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 18 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.68%) CISM
17 14 (0.63%) MCSE
18 11 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
19 10 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.66%) QA
2 37 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 31 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
3 31 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.18%) NIST
5 25 (1.13%) GDPR
6 18 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.82%) SLA
7 15 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
8 12 (0.54%) NCSC
8 12 (0.54%) PMO
9 9 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.23%) COBIT
13 4 (0.18%) GRC
14 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) WCAG
15 2 (0.091%) GxP
15 2 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 431 (19.52%) Active Directory
2 172 (7.79%) Docker
3 124 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 79 (3.58%) Hyper-V
5 63 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 56 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 28 (1.27%) vSphere
9 15 (0.68%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.45%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.41%) XenApp
11 9 (0.41%) XenDesktop
12 8 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.27%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.18%) HDFS
15 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.091%) NFS
17 1 (0.045%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 225 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 206 (9.33%) Terraform
3 151 (6.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 107 (4.85%) Ansible
5 99 (4.48%) SCCM
6 64 (2.90%) SCOM
7 61 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
8 49 (2.22%) Grafana
9 43 (1.95%) Prometheus
9 43 (1.95%) WSUS
10 34 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 28 (1.27%) vCenter Server
12 22 (1.00%) Puppet
13 21 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
14 20 (0.91%) Progress Chef
15 15 (0.68%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
17 13 (0.59%) Istio
17 13 (0.59%) Podman
18 12 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 703 (31.84%) Microsoft
2 192 (8.70%) VMware
3 121 (5.48%) Oracle
4 96 (4.35%) Databricks
5 74 (3.35%) Google
6 71 (3.22%) Cisco
7 53 (2.40%) Citrix
8 46 (2.08%) Atlassian
9 43 (1.95%) Splunk
10 39 (1.77%) SAP
11 36 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 36 (1.63%) Veeam
12 34 (1.54%) F5
12 34 (1.54%) ServiceNow
13 30 (1.36%) CyberArk
14 27 (1.22%) Salesforce
15 25 (1.13%) Dell
16 24 (1.09%) HP
17 23 (1.04%) Red Hat
18 20 (0.91%) Juniper