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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 20 6
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 14 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 14.14% 5.71% 16.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.67% 27.03% 59.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £340 £301 £350
25th Percentile £416 £311 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £530 £519 £538
90th Percentile £625 £605 £658
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £463 £425
% change year-on-year - +8.82% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 - £28.24
% change year-on-year - - -19.31%

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 30 37 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 30.30% 21.14% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 34
10th Percentile £146 £145 £333
25th Percentile £275 £160 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £200 £480
Median % change year-on-year +131.25% -58.33% +23.87%
75th Percentile £725 £438 £619
90th Percentile - £526 £650
East Midlands median daily rate £442 £425 £433
% change year-on-year +3.91% -1.73% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.73
25th Percentile - - £18.94
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £22.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.67%
75th Percentile - - £26.44
90th Percentile - - £28.58
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £15.32 £21.25
% change year-on-year +39.67% -27.93% +10.39%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +11 13 £463 +8.82% 47
Chesterfield - 1 - - 11
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 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Batch
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) GIS
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Chocolatey
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Microservices
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Service Catalogue
3 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
4 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Cognos
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Trapeze
3 1 (7.14%) VMware