Azure Cosmos DB Contracts

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Cosmos DB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Cosmos DB 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 413 489 475
Rank change year-on-year +76 -14 -103
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 188 237 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.40% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.07% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 166 327
10th Percentile £409 £434 £405
25th Percentile £500 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £728 £788 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +24.00% -1.96% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - £51.25 £25.44
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year - +60.31% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £39.94
90th Percentile - - £43.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Cosmos DB is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 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
England +98 175 £600 +4.35% 55
London +80 114 £545 -8.40% 31
Work from Home +91 70 £563 +0.45% 36
UK excluding London +61 57 £620 +24.00% 27
South East +37 37 £625 +4.17% 8
Midlands +21 9 £550 +17.02% 5
West Midlands +32 8 £575 +30.68% 3
North of England +22 5 £600 +26.32% 7
North West +15 4 £600 +11.63% 5
East of England +16 2 £550 +15.79% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Scotland +32 1 - - 5
South West +20 1 - -
East Midlands +14 1 £310 -38.00% 2
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 1

Azure Cosmos DB
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (7.98%) CMS
2 9 (4.79%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (3.72%) Confluence
4 6 (3.19%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.60%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) Azure
2 89 (47.34%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (37.23%) Azure Monitor
4 68 (36.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 53 (28.19%) Serverless
6 51 (27.13%) Entra ID
7 47 (25.00%) Azure Functions
8 44 (23.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (13.30%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (12.77%) Azure Storage
11 23 (12.23%) PaaS
12 18 (9.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (8.51%) Power Platform
15 15 (7.98%) Azure API Management
16 14 (7.45%) Azure Pipelines
17 12 (6.38%) Azure App Service
18 11 (5.85%) AWS
19 10 (5.32%) Azure Cognitive Search
20 9 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.79%) Firewall
2 4 (2.13%) VPN
3 2 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (38.83%) SQL Server
2 43 (22.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (10.64%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.64%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.51%) Power BI
5 11 (5.85%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.72%) Big Data
7 6 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.66%) Redis
9 4 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.60%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.60%) MySQL
10 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (32.98%) Git
2 9 (4.79%) Postman
3 8 (4.26%) Selenium
4 7 (3.72%) JIRA
5 5 (2.66%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.66%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.06%) Moq
6 2 (1.06%) NUnit
6 2 (1.06%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.53%) Gradle
7 1 (0.53%) gulp
7 1 (0.53%) Hudson
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
7 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.53%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (17.02%) Finance
2 27 (14.36%) Public Sector
3 25 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.11%) Back Office
5 18 (9.57%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.26%) Banking
6 8 (4.26%) Marketing
7 6 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.66%) German Language
8 5 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.13%) Local Government
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.53%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 103 (54.79%) Developer
2 47 (25.00%) Senior
3 36 (19.15%) Senior Developer
4 33 (17.55%) Azure Developer
5 27 (14.36%) Full Stack Developer
5 27 (14.36%) Lead
6 26 (13.83%) Backend Developer
7 17 (9.04%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.51%) Architect
8 16 (8.51%) Senior Backend Developer
9 15 (7.98%) .NET Developer
9 15 (7.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (7.45%) Python Developer
11 11 (5.85%) Azure Architect
11 11 (5.85%) C# Developer
11 11 (5.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 9 (4.79%) Designer
12 9 (4.79%) Lead Designer
12 9 (4.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (47.34%) .NET
2 73 (38.83%) .NET Core
3 41 (21.81%) React
4 25 (13.30%) CSS
5 23 (12.23%) HTML
6 21 (11.17%) AngularJS
7 20 (10.64%) XML
8 19 (10.11%) ASP.NET
9 16 (8.51%) ASP.NET MVC
9 16 (8.51%) jQuery
9 16 (8.51%) Node.js
10 13 (6.91%) Swagger
11 11 (5.85%) Blazor
11 11 (5.85%) YAML
12 10 (5.32%) .NET Framework
12 10 (5.32%) Web Services
13 9 (4.79%) PySpark
14 8 (4.26%) REST
15 5 (2.66%) ASP.NET Web API
15 5 (2.66%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.06%) Derivative
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) Social Media
7 1 (0.53%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (63.30%) DevOps
2 113 (60.11%) Agile
3 83 (44.15%) CI/CD
4 60 (31.91%) API Management
5 49 (26.06%) TDD
6 42 (22.34%) Microservices
7 38 (20.21%) Full Stack Development
8 36 (19.15%) OO
9 35 (18.62%) OOD
10 32 (17.02%) Clean Code
10 32 (17.02%) Software Engineering
11 29 (15.43%) SDLC
12 27 (14.36%) Front End Development
13 25 (13.30%) Scrum
14 24 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (12.23%) Analytics
16 20 (10.64%) MVC
17 19 (10.11%) API Design
17 19 (10.11%) B2C
17 19 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 93 (49.47%) C#
2 71 (37.77%) SQL
3 58 (30.85%) Python
4 55 (29.26%) Bicep
5 38 (20.21%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.77%) PowerShell
7 22 (11.70%) TypeScript
8 14 (7.45%) Java
9 13 (6.91%) T-SQL
10 10 (5.32%) Go
10 10 (5.32%) Scala
11 9 (4.79%) C++
11 9 (4.79%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.66%) PHP
13 3 (1.60%) C
13 3 (1.60%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.53%) Bash
14 1 (0.53%) Groovy
14 1 (0.53%) R
14 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (6.91%) Degree
2 9 (4.79%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.98%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.45%) WCAG
3 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.53%) GxP
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 85 (45.21%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (4.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.32%) Terraform
3 4 (2.13%) Ansible
4 3 (1.60%) Grafana
4 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.53%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 70 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.70%) Databricks
3 11 (5.85%) Oracle
4 9 (4.79%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.06%) Informatica
5 2 (1.06%) New Relic
6 1 (0.53%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.53%) Talend