Azure Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 77 164 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.91% 15.74% 11.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.15% 53.59% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 135 133
10th Percentile £311 £294 £313
25th Percentile £369 £376 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £540
90th Percentile £710 £700 £638
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £13.84 -
25th Percentile £27.75 £17.72 £32.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -24.34% +27.64%
75th Percentile £33.25 - £37.50
90th Percentile - £28.59 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
% change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +3.51%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 213 306 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.41% 29.37% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 232 304
10th Percentile £166 £182 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £519
90th Percentile £663 £700 £617
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile - £14.57 £14.40
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.86 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.26% +14.03%
75th Percentile £27.50 £24.43 £21.00
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.48 £26.90
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Nottinghamshire -2 27 £500 -2.44% 48
Leicestershire -7 18 £500 +17.65% 34
Northamptonshire +2 10 £463 -7.50% 22
Lincolnshire +19 8 £625 - 16
Derbyshire -14 7 £463 - 30
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) AWS
2 17 (22.08%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.39%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (10.39%) Entra ID
4 8 (10.39%) SaaS
5 7 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (6.49%) GCP
7 4 (5.19%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.60%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.60%) Serverless
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 1 (1.30%) IaaS
10 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) Firewall
1 1 (1.30%) LAN
1 1 (1.30%) NAS
1 1 (1.30%) SAN
1 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (10.39%) Power BI
2 7 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 6 (7.79%) Big Data
4 5 (6.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.90%) MySQL
6 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.60%) Metadata
7 2 (2.60%) OLAP
7 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.60%) Tableau
8 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.30%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.30%) NUnit
1 1 (1.30%) Postman
1 1 (1.30%) Selenium
1 1 (1.30%) SoapUI
1 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Legal
4 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Games
5 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
6 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) Architect
2 14 (18.18%) Developer
3 9 (11.69%) IT Manager
4 8 (10.39%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (10.39%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 8 (10.39%) IT Services Manager
4 8 (10.39%) Service Delivery Manager
4 8 (10.39%) Service Manager
5 7 (9.09%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Azure Architect
5 7 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 6 (7.79%) Consultant
6 6 (7.79%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Senior
7 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.19%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) .NET
2 5 (6.49%) HTML
3 4 (5.19%) CSS
3 4 (5.19%) React
4 3 (3.90%) LDAP
4 3 (3.90%) OAuth
4 3 (3.90%) OpenID
4 3 (3.90%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.90%) SAML
4 3 (3.90%) Web Services
4 3 (3.90%) XML
5 2 (2.60%) CSS3
5 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.60%) Laravel
5 2 (2.60%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) SOAP
5 2 (2.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (2.60%) Yii
6 1 (1.30%) gRPC
6 1 (1.30%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.60%) IoT
3 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.30%) e-Health
3 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.30%) LIMS
3 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.30%) NHS
3 1 (1.30%) Online Banking
3 1 (1.30%) PACS
3 1 (1.30%) Robotics
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Apple iOS
2 7 (9.09%) Windows
3 6 (7.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.19%) Linux
5 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.17%) Migration
2 19 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (19.48%) Agile
4 12 (15.58%) Change Management
5 11 (14.29%) Analytics
5 11 (14.29%) DevOps
6 10 (12.99%) Information Security
6 10 (12.99%) ITSM
6 10 (12.99%) Service Delivery
6 10 (12.99%) Service Management
7 9 (11.69%) Decision-Making
7 9 (11.69%) People Management
8 8 (10.39%) Business Analysis
8 8 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (10.39%) Data Modelling
8 8 (10.39%) IT Governance
8 8 (10.39%) Performance Metrics
8 8 (10.39%) Problem Management
8 8 (10.39%) Service Delivery Management
9 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.78%) SQL
2 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.29%) C#
4 8 (10.39%) Swift
5 7 (9.09%) Python
6 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.90%) Bash
7 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.60%) PHP
9 1 (1.30%) C
9 1 (1.30%) C++
9 1 (1.30%) Java
9 1 (1.30%) Rust
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
3 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CISM
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.19%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) SLA
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) GRC
3 1 (1.30%) HL7
3 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) Docker
3 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (41.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Okta
3 9 (11.69%) Databricks
4 3 (3.90%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.30%) Ariba
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Workday