Azure Contracts in Devon

Microsoft Azure
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 12 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 11 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 10.28% 5.09% 6.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.00% 32.56% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 10
10th Percentile £434 - £219
25th Percentile £475 £129 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £313 £500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -37.50% +23.46%
75th Percentile £525 £586 £713
90th Percentile £533 £600 £759
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25 43 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 23.36% 15.64% 29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 50
10th Percentile £280 £129 £159
25th Percentile £313 £153 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £639
90th Percentile £530 - £700
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Devon

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Devon

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Devon

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Devon 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
Exeter +11 7 £500 +66.67% 87
Plymouth -3 3 £513 - 70
Azure
South West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Pipelines
1 4 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) BGP
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) OSPF
1 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (9.09%) VLAN
1 1 (9.09%) VoIP
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
General
1 4 (36.36%) Military
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Test Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
3 3 (27.27%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
5 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Aruba
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) ESRI
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Rapid7
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk