Azure Contracts in Derbyshire

Microsoft Azure
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 8 20 8
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 11 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 11.34% 4.12% 13.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 21.88% 54.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 20
10th Percentile £345 £331 £356
25th Percentile £450 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% - -0.54%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £538
90th Percentile £640 £563 £639
East Midlands median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £30.50 £26.48
% change year-on-year -50.52% +15.18% -24.34%

All Cloud Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22 32 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 22.68% 18.82% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 37
10th Percentile £140 £145 £135
25th Percentile £181 £160 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £200 £450
Median % change year-on-year +93.75% -55.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £534 £438 £575
90th Percentile £710 £525 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.33%
75th Percentile - - £22.88
90th Percentile - - £27.15
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
% change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Derbyshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Derbyshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Derbyshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Derbyshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Derby +13 11 £475 +2.70% 81
Azure
East Midlands

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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