Azure Blueprints Contracts

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Blueprints skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Blueprints 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 588 714 809
Rank change year-on-year +126 +95 -136
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 10 5 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.008% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.036% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 37
10th Percentile - £433 £471
25th Percentile - £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £575 £669
90th Percentile - - £795
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £663
% change year-on-year - -16.98% +29.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Azure Blueprints is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Blueprints as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Blueprints within the UK 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
Work from Home +140 10 £650 +30.00%

Azure Blueprints
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 10 (100.00%) IaaS
1 10 (100.00%) PaaS
1 10 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 10 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 10 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 10 (100.00%) Project Management
1 10 (100.00%) Release Management
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform