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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 15 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 16.48% 11.68% 19.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 65.22% 47.06% 54.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 14
10th Percentile £340 £306 £363
25th Percentile £405 £347 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £469 £608 £525
90th Percentile £584 £629 £675
Derbyshire median daily rate £436 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -18.84% +13.16% +5.56%

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 23 34 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 25.27% 24.82% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 27
10th Percentile £264 £160 £363
25th Percentile £405 £200 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £480
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -21.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £719 £588 £625
90th Percentile £733 £620 £665
Derbyshire median daily rate £463 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +15.63% -15.79% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - +79.10%

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 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Derby

Azure
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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Batch
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Chocolatey
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
2 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (13.33%) Product Backlog
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Test Planning
5 2 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) Bicep
6 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (6.67%) Cognos
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) VMware