Azure Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 196 329 373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.62% 14.27% 13.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.97% 41.65% 40.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 268 268
10th Percentile £263 £345 £326
25th Percentile £411 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £623 £616
90th Percentile £645 £700 £700
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -55.90%
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -1.48%

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire

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 advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 467 790 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 27.68% 34.26% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 589 692
10th Percentile £250 £255 £180
25th Percentile £363 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £641 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 16
10th Percentile £13.43 £21.63 £16.13
25th Percentile £14.63 £27.81 £17.11
Median hourly rate £15.00 £43.25 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +129.14% -5.63%
75th Percentile £17.31 £62.00 £22.40
90th Percentile £22.00 £72.80 £22.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Yorkshire +1 131 £500 -9.09% 114
South Yorkshire -10 44 £425 -27.66% 42
North Yorkshire 0 15 £375 +6.76% 31
East Yorkshire -1 1 - - 4
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.06%) Confluence
2 6 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.51%) Kentico
5 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.02%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.02%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.49%) AWS
2 37 (18.88%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (17.35%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (16.84%) GCP
5 21 (10.71%) Entra ID
6 19 (9.69%) GitHub
7 16 (8.16%) Akamai
7 16 (8.16%) Cloudflare
8 11 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (5.10%) Power Platform
10 9 (4.59%) SaaS
11 7 (3.57%) IaaS
12 6 (3.06%) Apigee
12 6 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.06%) Kong
12 6 (3.06%) Serverless
13 5 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.16%) Firewall
2 13 (6.63%) DNS
3 6 (3.06%) HTTP
3 6 (3.06%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.06%) VPN
4 5 (2.55%) HTTPS
4 5 (2.55%) Network Security
4 5 (2.55%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.02%) WAN
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.51%) LAN
6 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.59%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.59%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.08%) Power BI
5 7 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.55%) Big Data
7 5 (2.55%) GIS
7 5 (2.55%) InterSystems Cache
7 5 (2.55%) Redis
7 5 (2.55%) Tableau
8 4 (2.04%) MySQL
9 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (8.16%) Git
2 15 (7.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.65%) JIRA
3 14 (7.14%) GitLab
4 7 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.06%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.06%) Travis CI
6 5 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.04%) AppScan
7 4 (2.04%) Burp Suite
7 4 (2.04%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.02%) Subversion
9 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) Maven
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.65%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.65%) Retail
4 13 (6.63%) Finance
5 6 (3.06%) Law
6 4 (2.04%) Banking
6 4 (2.04%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Local Government
7 2 (1.02%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.51%) Automotive
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Marketing
8 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (19.39%) Architect
2 29 (14.80%) Developer
3 20 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (7.65%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.63%) Analyst
6 13 (6.63%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 9 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.08%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.08%) Lead
9 8 (4.08%) Senior
10 7 (3.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.57%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.57%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (4.59%) .NET
2 9 (4.59%) XML
3 8 (4.08%) JSON
4 6 (3.06%) SailPoint
4 6 (3.06%) YAML
5 5 (2.55%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.55%) ADO
5 5 (2.55%) Blazor
5 5 (2.55%) Node.js
5 5 (2.55%) SignalR
5 5 (2.55%) Web Services
6 4 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.53%) Kafka
8 2 (1.02%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.02%) LDAP
8 2 (1.02%) Middleware
8 2 (1.02%) OpenLayers
8 2 (1.02%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.02%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
1 8 (4.08%) NHS
2 6 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (3.06%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.06%) Replication
3 4 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.53%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.02%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.51%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.29%) Windows
2 15 (7.65%) Linux
3 13 (6.63%) Windows 10
4 11 (5.61%) Unix
4 11 (5.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (33.16%) DevOps
2 52 (26.53%) Agile
3 31 (15.82%) Migration
4 25 (12.76%) CI/CD
5 21 (10.71%) Containerisation
5 21 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
5 21 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (10.20%) Data Modelling
7 17 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (8.16%) Project Management
8 16 (8.16%) Roadmaps
9 15 (7.65%) Analytics
9 15 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (7.14%) Scrum
11 13 (6.63%) Waterfall
12 12 (6.12%) Data Management
12 12 (6.12%) Identity Access Management
12 12 (6.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.86%) Python
2 30 (15.31%) SQL
3 23 (11.73%) Bash
4 20 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.06%) C#
6 6 (3.06%) Java
7 3 (1.53%) Go
8 2 (1.02%) PHP
8 2 (1.02%) Scala
8 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.51%) ABAP
9 1 (0.51%) Bicep
9 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (6.12%) Degree
2 11 (5.61%) SC Cleared
2 11 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.02%) CCNA
5 2 (1.02%) CCNP
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) CISM
6 1 (0.51%) CISSP
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) PMO
4 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (15.82%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.71%) Docker
3 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.02%) HDFS
6 1 (0.51%) ACF2
6 1 (0.51%) IAG
6 1 (0.51%) RACF
6 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.71%) Terraform
3 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.61%) Ansible
4 11 (5.61%) Progress Chef
4 11 (5.61%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.61%) Puppet
5 10 (5.10%) Grafana
6 6 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (3.06%) Kibana
6 6 (3.06%) logstash
7 5 (2.55%) Nessus
8 4 (2.04%) Graylog
8 4 (2.04%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.04%) WebInspect
9 3 (1.53%) SCCM
9 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (26.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) F5
3 11 (5.61%) VMware
4 10 (5.10%) Splunk
5 8 (4.08%) Oracle
5 8 (4.08%) SAP
6 6 (3.06%) CyberArk
6 6 (3.06%) Databricks
6 6 (3.06%) Google
7 5 (2.55%) Brio
7 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.04%) Checkmarx
8 4 (2.04%) Veracode
9 3 (1.53%) Workday
10 2 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.02%) Cisco
10 2 (1.02%) MEDITECH
10 2 (1.02%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.51%) Ariba
11 1 (0.51%) NetApp