Azure Contracts in Cambridge

Microsoft Azure
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 27 14
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 8.77% 2.58% 6.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.30% 23.81% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile £434 £539 £313
25th Percentile £478 £541 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £559 £538
90th Percentile £658 £561 £563
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £538 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +2.38% +16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Cloud Skills
Cambridge

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 21 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.95% 10.82% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 43
10th Percentile £425 £225 £200
25th Percentile £478 £312 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.56% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £450 £544
90th Percentile £605 £559 £574
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +21.82% -8.33% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £15.28 £19.99 -
25th Percentile £15.70 £27.28 -
Median hourly rate £16.90 £41.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.15% - -
75th Percentile £17.60 £57.28 -
90th Percentile £17.72 £65.66 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Developer
1 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) IFS Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (30.00%) Workload Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science
4 1 (10.00%) DataOps
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) IBM
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) IFS
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Sybase
4 1 (10.00%) VMware