Azure Event Grid Contracts

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Event Grid skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Event Grid 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 578 640 764
Rank change year-on-year +62 +124 -114
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 20 79 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.13% 0.096%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.36% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 69 73
10th Percentile £413 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £634 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.52% +14.20%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Event Grid 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 Event Grid
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Event Grid in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Event Grid in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Event Grid in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Event Grid 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 +81 19 £539 -7.91% 5
London +82 14 £545 -9.17% 1
Work from Home +110 8 £500 -15.25% 1
UK excluding London +36 4 £450 -10.00% 4
South East +25 2 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands +24 1 - -
Midlands +15 1 - -
South West - 1 £350 - 3

Azure Event Grid
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 1 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) Azure App Service
3 9 (45.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Functions
5 7 (35.00%) Serverless
6 6 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
9 2 (10.00%) AWS
9 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 2 (10.00%) IaaS
9 2 (10.00%) PaaS
9 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (10.00%) SaaS
10 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) FTP
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Parquet
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) NUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Electronics
4 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Azure Developer
1 6 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) .NET
2 10 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 8 (40.00%) Kafka
4 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (15.00%) YAML
5 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
5 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (10.00%) React
5 2 (10.00%) Swagger
5 2 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (5.00%) Blazor
6 1 (5.00%) CSS
6 1 (5.00%) CSS3
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) HTML5
6 1 (5.00%) JSON
6 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
1 10 (50.00%) Microservices
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Event-Driven
2 7 (35.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) TDD
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) API Management
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Data Development
7 2 (10.00%) Digital Twin
7 2 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) C#
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) PHP
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.00%) Ruby
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) VMware