Azure Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,927 8,362 11,805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.33% 16.54% 16.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.85% 45.18% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 6,168 8,665
10th Percentile £350 £386 £388
25th Percentile £438 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £660
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 85 56
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.48 £16.63
25th Percentile £22.45 £24.62 £24.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +2.90%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £62.43
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -36.36% +2.80% +11.46%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
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 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London 0 2,847 £550 -8.33% 1,201
South East -3 584 £550 -1.52% 507
North of England -6 514 £500 -4.76% 611
South West -4 360 £500 -9.09% 306
Midlands -6 310 £525 +9.38% 394
North West -8 289 £500 -4.76% 352
West Midlands -3 232 £550 +7.84% 241
Yorkshire -1 197 £475 -13.64% 192
East of England -25 91 £458 -3.68% 182
East Midlands -5 75 £475 +5.56% 153
North East +3 34 £533 -11.25% 73
Azure
UK

Azure
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
1 331 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 236 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 148 (3.00%) Confluence
4 95 (1.93%) Apache
5 67 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 66 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 41 (0.83%) IIS
8 38 (0.77%) CMS
9 35 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
10 15 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
11 14 (0.28%) nginx
12 13 (0.26%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.22%) Site Server
14 10 (0.20%) Skype for Business
14 10 (0.20%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 9 (0.18%) SAS
16 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
17 7 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 123 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.10%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.061%) Trello
8 2 (0.041%) Sketch
9 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.020%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.020%) InDesign
9 1 (0.020%) InVision
9 1 (0.020%) Marvel
9 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 106 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 20 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.30%) Endur
4 15 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 10 (0.20%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.18%) Shopify
8 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.12%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
11 4 (0.081%) SAP HR
12 3 (0.061%) BusinessWorks
12 3 (0.061%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.061%) Primavera
12 3 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
12 3 (0.061%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,246 (25.29%) AWS
2 1,035 (21.01%) Azure DevOps
3 649 (13.17%) Microsoft 365
4 558 (11.33%) Power Platform
5 538 (10.92%) GCP
6 516 (10.47%) Entra ID
7 289 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 255 (5.18%) Serverless
9 237 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
10 191 (3.88%) PaaS
11 188 (3.82%) GitHub
12 175 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 175 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
12 175 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 169 (3.43%) Azure Functions
13 169 (3.43%) IaaS
14 158 (3.21%) Power Automate
14 158 (3.21%) SaaS
15 154 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
16 152 (3.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 375 (7.61%) Firewall
2 234 (4.75%) DNS
3 151 (3.06%) VPN
4 106 (2.15%) WAN
5 105 (2.13%) Network Security
6 103 (2.09%) DHCP
7 96 (1.95%) LAN
8 73 (1.48%) SAN
9 70 (1.42%) BGP
10 65 (1.32%) SSL
10 65 (1.32%) TCP/IP
11 48 (0.97%) Wireless
12 44 (0.89%) MPLS
13 42 (0.85%) OSPF
14 40 (0.81%) VLAN
15 36 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.65%) HTTP
17 29 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
18 26 (0.53%) Internet
19 24 (0.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 573 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 426 (8.65%) Power BI
3 247 (5.01%) Data Lake
4 245 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
5 201 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 184 (3.73%) NoSQL
7 165 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 118 (2.39%) Big Data
9 105 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 100 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 84 (1.70%) MySQL
12 77 (1.56%) MongoDB
13 66 (1.34%) Tableau
14 46 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 44 (0.89%) Apache Ignite
16 42 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 35 (0.71%) Redis
18 32 (0.65%) Metadata
19 31 (0.63%) GIS
20 28 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 335 (6.80%) Git
2 278 (5.64%) JIRA
3 168 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 125 (2.54%) GitLab
5 88 (1.79%) Selenium
6 73 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 59 (1.20%) SpecFlow
8 55 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 45 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 44 (0.89%) Postman
11 35 (0.71%) TeamCity
12 33 (0.67%) Maven
13 26 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 26 (0.53%) JMeter
14 22 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 20 (0.41%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.35%) NUnit
16 17 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 17 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
17 16 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 1,130 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 997 (20.24%) Finance
3 472 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 433 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 285 (5.78%) Banking
6 168 (3.41%) Front Office
7 132 (2.68%) Marketing
8 123 (2.50%) Retail
9 98 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 96 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 83 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 69 (1.40%) Legal
13 64 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 64 (1.30%) Law
14 56 (1.14%) Back Office
14 56 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 53 (1.08%) Electronics
16 43 (0.87%) Investment Banking
17 38 (0.77%) Financial Institution
17 38 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 947 (19.22%) Developer
2 803 (16.30%) Architect
3 512 (10.39%) Senior
4 442 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
5 341 (6.92%) Analyst
6 307 (6.23%) Data Engineer
7 292 (5.93%) Lead
8 238 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
9 236 (4.79%) Consultant
10 209 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 197 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 193 (3.92%) Software Engineer
13 181 (3.67%) .NET Developer
14 175 (3.55%) Senior Developer
15 148 (3.00%) Azure Developer
16 141 (2.86%) Azure Architect
16 141 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
17 138 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
18 134 (2.72%) C# Developer
19 132 (2.68%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 646 (13.11%) .NET
2 269 (5.46%) React
3 204 (4.14%) .NET Core
4 189 (3.84%) XML
5 177 (3.59%) REST
6 168 (3.41%) HTML
7 158 (3.21%) AngularJS
8 154 (3.13%) .NET Framework
9 145 (2.94%) CSS
10 135 (2.74%) Web Services
11 132 (2.68%) Node.js
12 119 (2.42%) Kafka
13 116 (2.35%) JSON
14 114 (2.31%) ASP.NET
15 109 (2.21%) PySpark
16 101 (2.05%) ARM Templates
17 95 (1.93%) RESTful
18 83 (1.68%) YAML
19 81 (1.64%) Redux
20 61 (1.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (4.22%) Product Ownership
2 137 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 132 (2.68%) Data Centre
4 127 (2.58%) Cloud Native
5 122 (2.48%) PKI
6 105 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 100 (2.03%) Hedge funds
8 90 (1.83%) Derivative
9 86 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 86 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 81 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 72 (1.46%) Equities
12 69 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 68 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 58 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 58 (1.18%) Private Cloud
15 49 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
16 46 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
17 45 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
17 45 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 750 (15.22%) Windows
2 386 (7.83%) Linux
3 301 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 165 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 82 (1.66%) Unix
6 72 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 70 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 63 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 61 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 43 (0.87%) Mac OS
11 42 (0.85%) Android
12 35 (0.71%) Apple iOS
13 32 (0.65%) VMS
14 21 (0.43%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.37%) Solaris
15 18 (0.37%) Windows 7
16 16 (0.32%) Windows XP
17 12 (0.24%) Mac OS X
18 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
19 9 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,723 (34.97%) DevOps
2 1,352 (27.44%) Agile
3 731 (14.84%) CI/CD
4 641 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
5 574 (11.65%) Migration
6 491 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
7 438 (8.89%) Software Engineering
8 430 (8.73%) Analytics
9 398 (8.08%) Scrum
10 334 (6.78%) Data Modelling
10 334 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 303 (6.15%) ETL
12 286 (5.80%) ITIL
13 274 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 272 (5.52%) Full Stack Development
15 271 (5.50%) Microservices
16 269 (5.46%) Cybersecurity
17 267 (5.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 251 (5.09%) Test Automation
19 238 (4.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 946 (19.20%) SQL
2 864 (17.54%) Python
3 712 (14.45%) C#
4 663 (13.46%) PowerShell
5 362 (7.35%) JavaScript
6 269 (5.46%) Java
7 230 (4.67%) TypeScript
8 146 (2.96%) Bicep
9 134 (2.72%) Bash
10 95 (1.93%) T-SQL
11 59 (1.20%) C++
12 52 (1.06%) Scala
13 50 (1.01%) C
14 46 (0.93%) Go
15 37 (0.75%) R
16 36 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.67%) PHP
18 31 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
18 31 (0.63%) VBScript
19 29 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 753 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 567 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 484 (9.82%) Degree
4 242 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 178 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 150 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 96 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 90 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (1.58%) CISSP
10 55 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 50 (1.01%) CCNP
12 48 (0.97%) CCNA
13 46 (0.93%) CISM
14 44 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
15 43 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 23 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 20 (0.41%) PMP
19 18 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
20 16 (0.32%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.36%) QA
2 122 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 87 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (1.50%) NIST
5 66 (1.34%) GDPR
6 57 (1.16%) SLA
7 50 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 49 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
10 29 (0.59%) NCSC
11 24 (0.49%) WCAG
12 22 (0.45%) PMO
13 19 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.26%) GRC
15 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.18%) COBIT
17 7 (0.14%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.14%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 839 (17.03%) Active Directory
2 317 (6.43%) Docker
3 193 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
5 113 (2.29%) Hyper-V
6 68 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 37 (0.75%) vSphere
8 33 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.32%) XenApp
10 15 (0.30%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.18%) Firmware
13 8 (0.16%) ACF2
13 8 (0.16%) IAG
13 8 (0.16%) RACF
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.12%) KVM
14 6 (0.12%) NFS
15 5 (0.10%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 479 (9.72%) Terraform
2 422 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 259 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 216 (4.38%) Ansible
5 156 (3.17%) SCCM
6 90 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
7 79 (1.60%) SCOM
8 64 (1.30%) Puppet
9 61 (1.24%) Grafana
10 58 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 53 (1.08%) Prometheus
12 41 (0.83%) WSUS
13 39 (0.79%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
14 27 (0.55%) vCenter Server
15 25 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
16 22 (0.45%) Kibana
17 21 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
18 18 (0.37%) FortiGate
19 17 (0.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 1,660 (33.69%) Microsoft
2 310 (6.29%) VMware
3 303 (6.15%) Databricks
4 283 (5.74%) Oracle
5 181 (3.67%) Google
6 149 (3.02%) SAP
7 140 (2.84%) Cisco
8 107 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 92 (1.87%) Citrix
10 91 (1.85%) Splunk
11 77 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 67 (1.36%) CyberArk
13 66 (1.34%) F5
14 60 (1.22%) Atlassian
15 56 (1.14%) Salesforce
16 55 (1.12%) Red Hat
17 48 (0.97%) Veeam
18 46 (0.93%) Dell
18 46 (0.93%) Okta
19 45 (0.91%) HP