Azure Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 33 11
Rank change year-on-year +14 -22 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 83 92 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.85% 4.82% 10.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.20% 31.83% 41.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 65 146
10th Percentile £327 £211 £228
25th Percentile £400 £313 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.78% -3.68% -
75th Percentile £675 £550 £559
90th Percentile £688 £588 £700
England median daily rate £525 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £93.00 £58.75 £21.64
25th Percentile £133.13 £64.50 £24.62
Median hourly rate £200.00 £65.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +205.34% -6.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile - £67.95 -
England median hourly rate £44.25 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +26.43% -36.36% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 266 289 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.36% 15.14% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 167 344
10th Percentile £200 £214 £186
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £586
90th Percentile £675 £662 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 65 55
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%
75th Percentile £21.92 £21.37 £49.38
90th Percentile £37.46 £60.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +48 32 £650 +43.65% 69
Cambridgeshire +20 20 £538 +2.38% 101
Bedfordshire -7 14 £580 +110.91% 35
Suffolk -3 13 £250 -9.91% 20
Essex -10 4 £188 -61.54% 48
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (16.87%) Apache Spark
2 9 (10.84%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.61%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) IIS
5 1 (1.20%) Apache
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (14.46%) Entra ID
3 12 (14.46%) GCP
4 10 (12.05%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.43%) SaaS
6 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.02%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.02%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.41%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) VPN
2 4 (4.82%) Firewall
3 2 (2.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.41%) Network Security
3 2 (2.41%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.20%) BGP
4 1 (1.20%) DHCP
4 1 (1.20%) DMVPN
4 1 (1.20%) GLBP
4 1 (1.20%) HTTP
4 1 (1.20%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.20%) IGRP
4 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.20%) LAN
4 1 (1.20%) Multicast
4 1 (1.20%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.20%) SNMP
4 1 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) Big Data
1 14 (16.87%) Hadoop
1 14 (16.87%) Tableau
2 8 (9.64%) Power BI
3 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
3 6 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.20%) Flink
6 1 (1.20%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.20%) QlikView
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.41%) Git
3 2 (2.41%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.20%) Hudson
4 1 (1.20%) MSI
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Finance
4 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.20%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) Developer
2 17 (20.48%) Senior
3 12 (14.46%) Data Science Developer
3 12 (14.46%) Senior Developer
4 7 (8.43%) Architect
4 7 (8.43%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Desktop Support
5 5 (6.02%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) IT Support
5 5 (6.02%) Lead
5 5 (6.02%) Support Officer
6 4 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (4.82%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 3 (3.61%) Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) Environment Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.61%) Environment Manager
7 3 (3.61%) Head of IT
7 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) Matplotlib
1 14 (16.87%) NumPy
1 14 (16.87%) Pandas
1 14 (16.87%) PyTorch
1 14 (16.87%) scikit-learn
1 14 (16.87%) Seaborn
1 14 (16.87%) TensorFlow
2 5 (6.02%) .NET
3 3 (3.61%) Kafka
3 3 (3.61%) Web Services
4 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.41%) HTML
4 2 (2.41%) React
4 2 (2.41%) RESTful
4 2 (2.41%) XML
5 1 (1.20%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.20%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.20%) CSS
5 1 (1.20%) Middleware
5 1 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Algorithms
2 7 (8.43%) Driving Licence
2 7 (8.43%) iPad
2 7 (8.43%) iPhone
2 7 (8.43%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.82%) Life Science
5 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.41%) FMCG
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Windows
2 9 (10.84%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.23%) Linux
4 2 (2.41%) VxWorks
4 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.51%) Analytics
2 20 (24.10%) DevOps
3 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (19.28%) Computer Science
4 16 (19.28%) Data Science
5 15 (18.07%) Artificial Intelligence
5 15 (18.07%) Visualisation
6 14 (16.87%) Data Analysis
6 14 (16.87%) Data Munging
6 14 (16.87%) Generative AI
6 14 (16.87%) LLM
6 14 (16.87%) Machine Learning
6 14 (16.87%) Reinforcement Learning
7 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
8 12 (14.46%) Data Analytics
8 12 (14.46%) Feature Engineering
8 12 (14.46%) Migration
8 12 (14.46%) Predictive Analytics
8 12 (14.46%) Statistical Modelling
8 12 (14.46%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) Python
2 14 (16.87%) R
3 13 (15.66%) SQL
4 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.61%) Bash
5 3 (3.61%) Perl
6 2 (2.41%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) Go
6 2 (2.41%) Java
6 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) C++
7 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (26.51%) Degree
2 17 (20.48%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
4 12 (14.46%) PhD
5 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
6 7 (8.43%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.20%) CCDP
10 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.82%) GDPR
4 2 (2.41%) PMO
5 1 (1.20%) NIST
5 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (25.30%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.82%) Docker
3 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 4 (4.82%) Ansible
4 3 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.41%) logstash
5 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Google
2 7 (8.43%) McAfee
3 4 (4.82%) Ariba
3 4 (4.82%) SAP
4 3 (3.61%) IBM
4 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.41%) Anaplan
5 2 (2.41%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle
5 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.41%) Splunk
5 2 (2.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.41%) Wind River
6 1 (1.20%) Arista
6 1 (1.20%) Databricks
6 1 (1.20%) IFS
6 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.20%) Spotify
6 1 (1.20%) Zscaler