Azure Contracts in Derby

Microsoft Azure
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby 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 6 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 11 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 13.41% 4.76% 11.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 61.11% 23.33% 58.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile £345 £331 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £497
90th Percentile £640 £563 £638
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +2.70% - -0.54%

All Cloud Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18 30 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 21.95% 20.41% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 19
10th Percentile £221 £145 £350
25th Percentile £363 £160 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £200 £480
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -58.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £438 £619
90th Percentile £740 £525 £650
Derbyshire median daily rate £388 £200 £450
% change year-on-year +93.75% -55.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.22%
75th Percentile - - £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 - £15.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Derby

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Derby

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Derby

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Batch
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Chocolatey
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
2 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
3 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Service Catalogue
3 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
4 2 (18.18%) Test Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Bicep
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) VMware