Azure Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure 21 25 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 9.86% 10.16% 12.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.68% 31.65% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 37
10th Percentile £405 £423 £348
25th Percentile £419 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +16.44% +33.33%
75th Percentile £553 £537 £552
90th Percentile £598 £650 £602
East of England median daily rate £500 £469 £464
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.08% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £24.62 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +27.27% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 47 79 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 22.07% 32.11% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 49 114
10th Percentile £228 £204 £207
25th Percentile £405 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +3.84% +4.49%
75th Percentile £556 £583 £582
90th Percentile £650 £649 £629
East of England median daily rate £475 £463 £470
% change year-on-year +2.70% -1.60% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £20.03 £23.31
25th Percentile - £21.60 £26.98
Median hourly rate £88.00 £24.62 £45.30
Median % change year-on-year +257.43% -45.65% +96.95%
75th Percentile - £26.78 £68.57
90th Percentile - £48.88 £77.10
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -16.41% +25.81% +3.33%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Essex over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 9 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
Colchester +6 12 £500 +177.78% 7
Chelmsford 0 1 £575 -11.54% 1
Azure
East of England

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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 10 (47.62%) IIS
2 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 3 (14.29%) Wireshark
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Fiddler
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (14.29%) Local Government
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Web Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Applications Support
2 4 (19.05%) Applications Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Systems Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Web Applications Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Web Applications Support
2 4 (19.05%) Web Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Qlik Developer
3 3 (14.29%) QlikView Developer
3 3 (14.29%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 3 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 4 (19.05%) Analytics
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (14.29%) Line Management
4 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
5 2 (9.52%) ArchiMate
5 2 (9.52%) BPMN
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.52%) IT4IT
5 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
6 1 (4.76%) Architectural Design
6 1 (4.76%) Business Case
6 1 (4.76%) Commercial Awareness
6 1 (4.76%) People Management
6 1 (4.76%) SABSA
6 1 (4.76%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CISSP
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) COBIT
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) ISO 22301
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) SCOM
2 6 (28.57%) SCCM
3 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) F5
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Clearswift
2 2 (9.52%) Proofpoint
3 1 (4.76%) Sparx
3 1 (4.76%) VMware