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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 9 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 8.26% 5.32% 5.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.50% 36.84% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £483 - £200
25th Percentile £494 £129 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £313 £400
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -21.88% -1.23%
75th Percentile £528 £586 £500
90th Percentile £534 £600 £695
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 24 38 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 22.02% 14.45% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 45
10th Percentile £221 £129 £180
25th Percentile £310 £153 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +0.23%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £600
90th Percentile £530 - £669
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 9 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 +10 6 £500 +66.67% 19
Plymouth -2 2 £513 - 7
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 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Pipelines
1 4 (44.44%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Geospatial Data
General
1 4 (44.44%) Military
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) ESRI
2 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk