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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,949 8,082 11,637
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.46% 16.50% 16.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.14% 45.11% 43.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,641 5,960 8,584
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £444 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 77 50
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.98 £17.58
25th Percentile £22.40 £24.62 £33.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £59.80 £47.89
Median % change year-on-year -41.47% +24.88% -5.65%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -41.67% +11.63% +7.50%

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 11,745 17,918 26,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.95% 36.59% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,475 13,111 19,842
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
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 321 304 351
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 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 0 2,919 £550 -8.33% 1,260
South East -4 584 £550 -1.52% 484
North of England -6 501 £500 -4.76% 630
South West -3 357 £500 -9.09% 322
Midlands -7 296 £550 +14.58% 479
North West -8 283 £490 -2.00% 346
West Midlands -6 218 £550 +4.76% 281
Yorkshire 0 192 £500 -9.09% 216
East of England -27 82 £488 +2.63% 182
East Midlands -5 76 £463 +2.78% 197
North East -1 32 £533 -11.25% 71
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
1 320 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 228 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 151 (3.05%) Confluence
4 120 (2.42%) Apache
5 81 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 77 (1.56%) Apache Spark
7 41 (0.83%) IIS
8 40 (0.81%) CMS
9 36 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
10 15 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
10 15 (0.30%) nginx
11 11 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.16%) JBoss
14 8 (0.16%) SAS
14 8 (0.16%) Site Server
14 8 (0.16%) Skype for Business
15 7 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 7 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 105 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.061%) Trello
9 2 (0.040%) Sketch
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.020%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.020%) InDesign
10 1 (0.020%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.020%) InVision
10 1 (0.020%) Marvel
10 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 109 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 20 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.34%) Endur
5 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 10 (0.20%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 9 (0.18%) Shopify
9 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.14%) Aladdin
11 6 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 6 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
12 5 (0.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
13 4 (0.081%) SAP HR
14 3 (0.061%) BusinessWorks
14 3 (0.061%) NetSuite
14 3 (0.061%) Primavera
14 3 (0.061%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,263 (25.52%) AWS
2 1,040 (21.01%) Azure DevOps
3 627 (12.67%) Microsoft 365
4 564 (11.40%) Power Platform
5 554 (11.19%) GCP
6 520 (10.51%) Entra ID
7 308 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 267 (5.40%) Serverless
9 243 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
10 195 (3.94%) PaaS
11 192 (3.88%) GitHub
12 189 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 184 (3.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 178 (3.60%) Azure Functions
15 174 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
16 170 (3.44%) IaaS
17 165 (3.33%) SaaS
18 160 (3.23%) Power Automate
19 159 (3.21%) PowerApps
20 155 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 367 (7.42%) Firewall
2 221 (4.47%) DNS
3 140 (2.83%) VPN
4 104 (2.10%) WAN
5 98 (1.98%) DHCP
6 96 (1.94%) Network Security
7 93 (1.88%) LAN
8 74 (1.50%) SAN
9 71 (1.43%) BGP
10 66 (1.33%) SSL
11 65 (1.31%) TCP/IP
12 48 (0.97%) Wireless
13 45 (0.91%) MPLS
14 43 (0.87%) OSPF
15 41 (0.83%) VLAN
16 40 (0.81%) HTTP
17 36 (0.73%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
19 28 (0.57%) Internet
20 26 (0.53%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 594 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 431 (8.71%) Power BI
3 261 (5.27%) Data Lake
4 245 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
5 199 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 199 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 169 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 130 (2.63%) Big Data
8 111 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 95 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 87 (1.76%) MySQL
11 74 (1.50%) MongoDB
12 66 (1.33%) Tableau
13 60 (1.21%) Apache Ignite
14 42 (0.85%) Redis
15 41 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 38 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 32 (0.65%) RDBMS
18 30 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
18 30 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 339 (6.85%) Git
2 264 (5.33%) JIRA
3 157 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 129 (2.61%) GitLab
5 94 (1.90%) Selenium
6 78 (1.58%) Visual Studio
7 70 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.19%) SpecFlow
9 46 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 36 (0.73%) Postman
10 36 (0.73%) TeamCity
11 28 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 27 (0.55%) JMeter
12 27 (0.55%) Maven
13 23 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 21 (0.42%) CircleCI
15 19 (0.38%) Artifactory
16 17 (0.34%) NUnit
16 17 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 17 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 1,145 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 1,023 (20.67%) Finance
3 474 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 443 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 314 (6.34%) Banking
6 189 (3.82%) Front Office
7 126 (2.55%) Marketing
8 122 (2.47%) Retail
9 98 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 87 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 81 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 69 (1.39%) Legal
13 68 (1.37%) Back Office
14 61 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 58 (1.17%) Law
16 56 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 48 (0.97%) Electronics
18 45 (0.91%) Investment Banking
19 44 (0.89%) Financial Institution
20 38 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 974 (19.68%) Developer
2 824 (16.65%) Architect
3 523 (10.57%) Senior
4 436 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
5 353 (7.13%) Analyst
6 320 (6.47%) Data Engineer
7 293 (5.92%) Lead
8 247 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
9 234 (4.73%) Consultant
10 224 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
11 212 (4.28%) Software Engineer
12 188 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 180 (3.64%) Senior Developer
14 178 (3.60%) .NET Developer
15 158 (3.19%) Azure Developer
16 155 (3.13%) Full Stack Developer
17 143 (2.89%) Python Developer
18 140 (2.83%) Azure Architect
19 137 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
20 136 (2.75%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 686 (13.86%) .NET
2 300 (6.06%) React
3 209 (4.22%) .NET Core
4 202 (4.08%) XML
5 185 (3.74%) REST
6 183 (3.70%) HTML
7 166 (3.35%) .NET Framework
8 161 (3.25%) AngularJS
9 154 (3.11%) CSS
10 147 (2.97%) Web Services
11 126 (2.55%) Kafka
12 122 (2.47%) PySpark
13 118 (2.38%) ASP.NET
13 118 (2.38%) JSON
14 112 (2.26%) Node.js
15 100 (2.02%) ARM Templates
16 98 (1.98%) RESTful
17 95 (1.92%) Redux
18 83 (1.68%) YAML
19 74 (1.50%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 218 (4.40%) Product Ownership
2 139 (2.81%) Public Cloud
3 133 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 123 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 118 (2.38%) PKI
6 117 (2.36%) Fixed Income
7 116 (2.34%) Hedge funds
8 94 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 91 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 87 (1.76%) Derivative
11 80 (1.62%) Equities
12 76 (1.54%) Management Information System
13 68 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
13 68 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
14 57 (1.15%) Private Cloud
15 53 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 48 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 48 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
17 45 (0.91%) Replication
18 44 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 731 (14.77%) Windows
2 397 (8.02%) Linux
3 290 (5.86%) Windows Server
4 157 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 85 (1.72%) Unix
6 73 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 72 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 67 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 46 (0.93%) Android
11 45 (0.91%) Mac OS
12 39 (0.79%) Apple iOS
13 30 (0.61%) VMS
14 21 (0.42%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.34%) Solaris
15 17 (0.34%) Windows 7
15 17 (0.34%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.22%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 8 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,736 (35.08%) DevOps
2 1,377 (27.82%) Agile
3 754 (15.24%) CI/CD
4 643 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
5 576 (11.64%) Migration
6 490 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
7 462 (9.34%) Software Engineering
8 445 (8.99%) Analytics
9 397 (8.02%) Scrum
10 336 (6.79%) Data Modelling
11 327 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 299 (6.04%) ETL
13 289 (5.84%) Full Stack Development
14 279 (5.64%) Microservices
15 278 (5.62%) ITIL
16 272 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 264 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 264 (5.33%) Test Automation
18 252 (5.09%) Cybersecurity
19 250 (5.05%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 970 (19.60%) SQL
2 902 (18.23%) Python
3 739 (14.93%) C#
4 664 (13.42%) PowerShell
5 367 (7.42%) JavaScript
6 283 (5.72%) Java
7 251 (5.07%) TypeScript
8 161 (3.25%) Bicep
9 137 (2.77%) Bash
10 91 (1.84%) T-SQL
11 58 (1.17%) C++
11 58 (1.17%) Scala
12 56 (1.13%) C
13 53 (1.07%) Go
14 37 (0.75%) R
15 33 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 31 (0.63%) VBScript
17 30 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (0.57%) PHP
19 27 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 754 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 561 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 494 (9.98%) Degree
4 241 (4.87%) DV Cleared
5 179 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 158 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 99 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 90 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 80 (1.62%) CISSP
10 58 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 51 (1.03%) CCNP
12 50 (1.01%) CCNA
13 49 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 43 (0.87%) CISM
15 42 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 18 (0.36%) PMP
19 17 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 15 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (4.47%) QA
2 128 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 86 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 78 (1.58%) NIST
5 74 (1.50%) GDPR
6 63 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 56 (1.13%) SLA
8 51 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 39 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
10 28 (0.57%) NCSC
11 24 (0.48%) WCAG
12 21 (0.42%) PMO
13 19 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.24%) GRC
15 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.18%) COBIT
16 9 (0.18%) ISO 20022
17 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 6 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 826 (16.69%) Active Directory
2 343 (6.93%) Docker
3 186 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 115 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 111 (2.24%) Hyper-V
6 70 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 36 (0.73%) vSphere
8 33 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.30%) XenApp
11 11 (0.22%) Firmware
11 11 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.16%) ACF2
13 8 (0.16%) IAG
13 8 (0.16%) RACF
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.14%) NFS
15 6 (0.12%) KVM
16 5 (0.10%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 473 (9.56%) Terraform
2 442 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 259 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 210 (4.24%) Ansible
5 150 (3.03%) SCCM
6 99 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 77 (1.56%) SCOM
8 63 (1.27%) Puppet
9 60 (1.21%) Grafana
10 53 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 51 (1.03%) Prometheus
12 43 (0.87%) WSUS
13 40 (0.81%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.57%) vCenter Server
15 27 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
16 26 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
17 24 (0.48%) Kibana
18 22 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
19 19 (0.38%) logstash
19 19 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 1,649 (33.32%) Microsoft
2 316 (6.39%) Databricks
3 302 (6.10%) VMware
4 290 (5.86%) Oracle
5 199 (4.02%) Google
6 151 (3.05%) SAP
7 140 (2.83%) Cisco
8 106 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 94 (1.90%) Splunk
10 85 (1.72%) Citrix
11 74 (1.50%) CyberArk
12 71 (1.43%) Palo Alto
13 66 (1.33%) F5
14 55 (1.11%) Salesforce
15 54 (1.09%) Atlassian
16 52 (1.05%) Red Hat
17 50 (1.01%) Veeam
18 47 (0.95%) Dell
18 47 (0.95%) Okta
19 44 (0.89%) HP