Azure Storage Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 429 551
Rank change year-on-year +122 +122 -135
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 34 39 64
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 49
10th Percentile £389 £413 £405
25th Percentile £509 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +7.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £663
90th Percentile - £799 £760
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £581
% change year-on-year +0.83% +3.23% +5.68%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Storage 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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,447 9,934 18,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.13% 39.60% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,923 7,315 13,601
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +64.89% -17.09%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Storage
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Storage trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Storage.

Azure Storage daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Azure Storage daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) CMS
3 1 (2.94%) Drupal
3 1 (2.94%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.94%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (58.82%) Entra ID
3 16 (47.06%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (26.47%) Serverless
5 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (23.53%) Azure Functions
6 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
7 6 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (14.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (11.76%) Azure API Management
9 4 (11.76%) Azure Batch
9 4 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
9 4 (11.76%) PowerApps
10 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (5.88%) Azure App Service
10 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) Firewall
2 16 (47.06%) DHCP
2 16 (47.06%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 5 (14.71%) Data Lake
3 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.76%) OLTP
5 3 (8.82%) Big Data
5 3 (8.82%) Power BI
6 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.88%) Redis
7 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.94%) Metadata
7 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.94%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (5.88%) GitLab
3 2 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Law
3 2 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (41.18%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (41.18%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (41.18%) Support Specialist
3 11 (32.35%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Data Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior
8 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Applications Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead
8 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (58.82%) ARM Templates
2 6 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
3 3 (8.82%) JSON
3 3 (8.82%) PySpark
3 3 (8.82%) Web Services
3 3 (8.82%) XML
4 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.88%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) pytest
4 2 (5.88%) YAML
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.94%) Blazor
5 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) PKI
1 16 (47.06%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (58.82%) Linux
1 20 (58.82%) Windows
2 18 (52.94%) Windows Server
3 16 (47.06%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (47.06%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.88%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Agile
2 24 (70.59%) DevOps
3 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
4 20 (58.82%) Analytics
5 19 (55.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (47.06%) Identity Management
6 16 (47.06%) ITIL
6 16 (47.06%) Log Analytics
6 16 (47.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 16 (47.06%) Privileged Identity Management
6 16 (47.06%) RBAC
6 16 (47.06%) Release Management
6 16 (47.06%) Service Management
7 7 (20.59%) Microservices
8 6 (17.65%) Migration
9 5 (14.71%) API Management
9 5 (14.71%) Scrum
10 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
10 4 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) C#
2 22 (64.71%) PowerShell
3 17 (50.00%) Bicep
4 16 (47.06%) VB
4 16 (47.06%) VBScript
5 10 (29.41%) SQL
6 7 (20.59%) Python
7 3 (8.82%) Java
8 2 (5.88%) Bash
8 2 (5.88%) C++
8 2 (5.88%) Go
8 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) Degree
2 16 (47.06%) DV Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Active Directory
1 19 (55.88%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (47.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
2 16 (47.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (47.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (47.06%) SCCM
2 16 (47.06%) SCOM
2 16 (47.06%) WSUS
3 7 (20.59%) Terraform
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Sitecore