Azure Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 16 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 27 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 5.00% 12.16% 10.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.38% 51.92% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 14
10th Percentile - £405 £423
25th Percentile £181 £416 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £488 £524
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% -6.97% +14.54%
75th Percentile £194 £550 £537
90th Percentile - £584 £650
East of England median daily rate £580 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +26.78% -3.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.96
25th Percentile - - £22.96
Median hourly rate £200.00 - £24.62
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +205.34% -6.43% +27.27%

All Cloud Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26 52 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 32.50% 23.42% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 44
10th Percentile £181 £270 £202
25th Percentile £243 £405 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% -3.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £475 £553 £548
90th Percentile £495 £650 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £64.00 - £20.03
25th Percentile £115.00 - £21.60
Median hourly rate £200.00 £88.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% +257.43% -8.75%
75th Percentile - - £26.78
90th Percentile - - £48.88
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Essex

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Essex

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Essex

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Essex 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
Southend-on-Sea - 2 - - 1
Braintree - 1 £188 - 1
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware