Azure Storage Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 551 636
Rank change year-on-year +82 +85 -143
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 73 100 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 67 108
10th Percentile £399 £427 £413
25th Percentile £480 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +3.23% +1.09%
75th Percentile £608 £694 £738
90th Percentile £756 £805 £854
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Storage 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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,742 17,981 26,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.93% 36.55% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,473 13,174 19,938
10th Percentile £300 £325 £332
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 304 346
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.28
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
London +87 43 £594 -8.65% 10
South East +23 16 £605 -12.00% 3
South West +16 6 £513 -33.87% 5
North West +23 2 £513 +17.82%
North of England +10 2 £513 -4.65% 1
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (23.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (16.44%) SharePoint
3 9 (12.33%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.37%) CMS
4 1 (1.37%) Drupal
4 1 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (46.58%) Entra ID
3 25 (34.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 23 (31.51%) Azure Functions
4 23 (31.51%) Serverless
5 22 (30.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (30.14%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (24.66%) Azure API Management
6 18 (24.66%) Azure Key Vault
7 17 (23.29%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (23.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (23.29%) Power Platform
8 14 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (19.18%) Power Automate
9 13 (17.81%) PaaS
10 12 (16.44%) AWS
11 9 (12.33%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (9.59%) Azure Batch
12 7 (9.59%) PowerApps
13 6 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (26.03%) DHCP
1 19 (26.03%) DNS
2 18 (24.66%) Firewall
3 6 (8.22%) Intranet
4 2 (2.74%) VPN
5 1 (1.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (41.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
3 9 (12.33%) Data Lake
3 9 (12.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (9.59%) OLTP
6 6 (8.22%) Big Data
7 5 (6.85%) Redis
8 3 (4.11%) Power BI
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 9 (12.33%) Postman
3 7 (9.59%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (6.85%) GitLab
5 4 (5.48%) Selenium
6 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.37%) Maven
6 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.22%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Law
6 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Front Office
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Developer
2 16 (21.92%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (19.18%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (19.18%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (19.18%) Support Specialist
4 13 (17.81%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Python Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Senior
6 7 (9.59%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (9.59%) SharePoint Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Lead
8 5 (6.85%) Applications Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.88%) ARM Templates
2 15 (20.55%) .NET
2 15 (20.55%) Web Services
3 9 (12.33%) .NET Core
3 9 (12.33%) Swagger
4 8 (10.96%) Blazor
5 7 (9.59%) JSON
5 7 (9.59%) SPFx
6 6 (8.22%) XML
7 4 (5.48%) pytest
7 4 (5.48%) YAML
8 3 (4.11%) PySpark
9 2 (2.74%) Kafka
9 2 (2.74%) RESTful
10 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.37%) Django
10 1 (1.37%) FastAPI
10 1 (1.37%) Flask
10 1 (1.37%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) PKI
1 16 (21.92%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.96%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (6.85%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.11%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.37%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 34 (46.58%) Windows
2 23 (31.51%) Linux
3 21 (28.77%) Windows Server
4 16 (21.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (21.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.48%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.74%) Unix
9 1 (1.37%) CentOS
9 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.01%) Agile
2 43 (58.90%) CI/CD
3 30 (41.10%) DevOps
4 24 (32.88%) Analytics
5 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (26.03%) API Management
7 18 (24.66%) Microservices
7 18 (24.66%) Software Engineering
8 17 (23.29%) TDD
9 16 (21.92%) Identity Management
9 16 (21.92%) ITIL
9 16 (21.92%) Log Analytics
9 16 (21.92%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (21.92%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (21.92%) RBAC
9 16 (21.92%) Release Management
9 16 (21.92%) Service Management
10 14 (19.18%) Migration
11 11 (15.07%) Full Stack Development
12 10 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) C#
2 31 (42.47%) SQL
3 26 (35.62%) PowerShell
4 25 (34.25%) Python
5 18 (24.66%) Bicep
6 16 (21.92%) JavaScript
6 16 (21.92%) VB
6 16 (21.92%) VBScript
7 9 (12.33%) C++
7 9 (12.33%) Go
7 9 (12.33%) PL/SQL
7 9 (12.33%) T-SQL
8 6 (8.22%) Java
9 3 (4.11%) Bash
10 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (34.25%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (28.77%) Degree
4 16 (21.92%) DV Cleared
4 16 (21.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) SLA
2 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 37 (50.68%) Active Directory
2 23 (31.51%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (21.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (6.85%) Docker
5 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (45.21%) Kubernetes
2 19 (26.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (21.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (21.92%) SCCM
3 16 (21.92%) SCOM
3 16 (21.92%) WSUS
4 13 (17.81%) Terraform
5 4 (5.48%) Grafana
5 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.37%) yum
Vendors
1 45 (61.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.70%) Oracle
3 9 (12.33%) MuleSoft
4 5 (6.85%) Databricks
4 5 (6.85%) VMware
5 3 (4.11%) CA
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.37%) Sybase