Azure Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,310 4,581 8,192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.30% 18.23% 18.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.48% 46.14% 44.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 3,380 6,083
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 57 51
10th Percentile £21.16 £38.18 £32.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £54.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £66.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +0.70% +23.66%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £47.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £59.90 £54.00
% change year-on-year -41.57% +10.93% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure 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 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
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 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Azure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Azure daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Azure hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 127 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 86 (3.72%) Confluence
3 81 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 29 (1.26%) CMS
6 24 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
8 15 (0.65%) Apache
9 14 (0.61%) IIS
10 9 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
11 8 (0.35%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.26%) Kentico
12 6 (0.26%) SAS
13 5 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.22%) JBoss
13 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.30%) Trello
5 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.087%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.087%) Sketch
7 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.043%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.043%) InVision
8 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 56 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.52%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.43%) Endur
4 10 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.26%) Shopify
6 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.087%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.087%) Maximo
8 2 (0.087%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.087%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.087%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.043%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 566 (24.50%) AWS
2 518 (22.42%) Azure DevOps
3 279 (12.08%) Microsoft 365
4 252 (10.91%) Power Platform
5 223 (9.65%) GCP
6 216 (9.35%) Entra ID
7 149 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
8 137 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 111 (4.81%) Serverless
10 108 (4.68%) PaaS
11 95 (4.11%) GitHub
11 95 (4.11%) SaaS
12 94 (4.07%) IaaS
13 86 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 85 (3.68%) PowerApps
15 80 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
16 77 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
17 75 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 73 (3.16%) Azure Functions
18 73 (3.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 165 (7.14%) Firewall
2 91 (3.94%) DNS
3 48 (2.08%) Network Security
4 47 (2.03%) SSL
5 45 (1.95%) VPN
6 42 (1.82%) DHCP
7 30 (1.30%) BGP
8 28 (1.21%) WAN
9 26 (1.13%) LAN
10 23 (1.00%) TCP/IP
11 21 (0.91%) SAN
12 18 (0.78%) HTTP
13 14 (0.61%) NAS
14 13 (0.56%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.52%) NetScaler
16 11 (0.48%) VLAN
17 9 (0.39%) MPLS
17 9 (0.39%) OSPF
18 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
18 7 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (11.60%) SQL Server
2 167 (7.23%) Power BI
3 115 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (4.50%) Data Lake
5 81 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 60 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 60 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 56 (2.42%) NoSQL
8 44 (1.90%) Big Data
9 35 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (1.47%) MySQL
11 29 (1.26%) MongoDB
12 23 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (0.95%) Redis
14 20 (0.87%) Tableau
15 18 (0.78%) Delta Lake
15 18 (0.78%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.65%) Power Query
17 14 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
18 12 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 163 (7.06%) JIRA
2 150 (6.49%) Git
3 75 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.51%) GitLab
5 44 (1.90%) Selenium
6 40 (1.73%) Visual Studio
7 30 (1.30%) SpecFlow
8 27 (1.17%) SonarQube
9 21 (0.91%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.82%) Postman
11 16 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.61%) Maven
14 13 (0.56%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.52%) WebDriver
16 10 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.43%) NUnit
16 10 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 531 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 418 (18.10%) Finance
3 264 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 160 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (2.99%) Banking
6 62 (2.68%) Retail
7 51 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 50 (2.16%) Front Office
9 49 (2.12%) Marketing
10 42 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.47%) Law
13 33 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.08%) Back Office
17 23 (1.00%) General Ledger
18 21 (0.91%) Electronics
19 20 (0.87%) Legal
20 12 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 486 (21.04%) Developer
2 409 (17.71%) Architect
3 283 (12.25%) Senior
4 184 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
5 163 (7.06%) Lead
6 146 (6.32%) Data Engineer
7 143 (6.19%) Consultant
8 136 (5.89%) Analyst
9 111 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 107 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
11 94 (4.07%) Senior Developer
12 93 (4.03%) .NET Developer
13 90 (3.90%) C# Developer
14 89 (3.85%) Azure Developer
15 72 (3.12%) Azure Architect
16 69 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 65 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
18 63 (2.73%) Azure Data Engineer
18 63 (2.73%) Data Architect
18 63 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (14.24%) .NET
2 100 (4.33%) XML
3 96 (4.16%) REST
4 94 (4.07%) React
5 93 (4.03%) Web Services
6 83 (3.59%) ARM Templates
7 77 (3.33%) .NET Core
8 75 (3.25%) .NET Framework
9 69 (2.99%) CSS
10 67 (2.90%) AngularJS
11 66 (2.86%) HTML
12 65 (2.81%) ASP.NET
13 63 (2.73%) JSON
14 50 (2.16%) Node.js
15 46 (1.99%) RESTful
16 41 (1.77%) PySpark
17 39 (1.69%) YAML
18 36 (1.56%) Kafka
19 35 (1.52%) Middleware
20 33 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 92 (3.98%) Product Ownership
2 68 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 64 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 64 (2.77%) Data Centre
3 64 (2.77%) PKI
4 62 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 47 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 45 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
7 42 (1.82%) Derivative
8 38 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 32 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (1.39%) Replication
10 30 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.17%) Private Cloud
13 26 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 26 (1.13%) NHS
14 25 (1.08%) Fixed Income
14 25 (1.08%) Hedge funds
15 23 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 305 (13.20%) Windows
2 161 (6.97%) Linux
3 110 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.47%) Unix
6 30 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.69%) Android
12 15 (0.65%) Solaris
13 13 (0.56%) VMS
14 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.35%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (0.26%) AIX
17 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.087%) Windows 7
18 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (36.80%) DevOps
2 593 (25.67%) Agile
3 331 (14.33%) CI/CD
4 287 (12.42%) Migration
5 273 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
6 216 (9.35%) Analytics
7 207 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
8 168 (7.27%) Software Engineering
9 167 (7.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 156 (6.75%) Scrum
11 154 (6.67%) Data Modelling
12 151 (6.54%) Test Automation
13 147 (6.36%) Microservices
14 139 (6.02%) ETL
15 121 (5.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 117 (5.06%) Cybersecurity
17 107 (4.63%) ITIL
18 103 (4.46%) Computer Science
19 97 (4.20%) Data Migration
20 96 (4.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 455 (19.70%) SQL
2 383 (16.58%) C#
3 368 (15.93%) Python
4 256 (11.08%) PowerShell
5 159 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 117 (5.06%) Java
7 83 (3.59%) TypeScript
8 81 (3.51%) Bicep
9 64 (2.77%) Bash
10 31 (1.34%) Scala
11 30 (1.30%) R
12 28 (1.21%) Go
13 25 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 23 (1.00%) VB
15 21 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.74%) C++
16 17 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 17 (0.74%) VBScript
17 14 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 336 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 272 (11.77%) SC Cleared
3 218 (9.44%) Degree
4 85 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 79 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.00%) CISSP
11 19 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 19 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.65%) CISM
12 15 (0.65%) PMP
13 12 (0.52%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.22%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.38%) QA
2 55 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 35 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.30%) GDPR
4 30 (1.30%) NCSC
4 30 (1.30%) NIST
5 26 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 21 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
8 12 (0.52%) WCAG
9 10 (0.43%) SLA
10 8 (0.35%) PMO
11 7 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.17%) COBIT
14 4 (0.17%) PSD2
15 3 (0.13%) GPG13
15 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 324 (14.03%) Active Directory
2 164 (7.10%) Docker
3 55 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 48 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.78%) vSphere
8 7 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.13%) Firmware
12 2 (0.087%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.087%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.043%) ACF2
13 1 (0.043%) HDFS
13 1 (0.043%) IAG
13 1 (0.043%) RACF
13 1 (0.043%) UAG
13 1 (0.043%) vCloud
13 1 (0.043%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 239 (10.35%) Terraform
2 218 (9.44%) Kubernetes
3 96 (4.16%) Ansible
4 91 (3.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (2.08%) SCCM
6 37 (1.60%) SCOM
7 36 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 25 (1.08%) Grafana
9 24 (1.04%) Prometheus
10 23 (1.00%) Puppet
11 22 (0.95%) WSUS
12 17 (0.74%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.35%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.35%) Podman
16 7 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
16 7 (0.30%) Kibana
16 7 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 704 (30.48%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.54%) Databricks
3 125 (5.41%) Oracle
4 107 (4.63%) VMware
5 62 (2.68%) SAP
6 57 (2.47%) Google
7 49 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 43 (1.86%) Cisco
8 43 (1.86%) Splunk
9 36 (1.56%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.52%) Atlassian
11 34 (1.47%) Citrix
12 24 (1.04%) Salesforce
13 23 (1.00%) HP
13 23 (1.00%) Informatica
13 23 (1.00%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.87%) IBM
14 20 (0.87%) Qualys
15 19 (0.82%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.78%) NetApp