Azure Contracts in Farnborough

Microsoft Azure
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +19 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 21 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 18.75% 4.73% 6.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 75.00% 57.14% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 7
10th Percentile £387 - £360
25th Percentile £469 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £608 £550 £547
90th Percentile £619 £600 £599
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 28 14 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 25.00% 8.28% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 25
10th Percentile £380 £420 £300
25th Percentile £469 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £583 £525 £588
90th Percentile £619 £588 £591
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £65.25 - £21.02
25th Percentile £67.50 - £21.05
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £22.00
75th Percentile £74.38 - £68.75
90th Percentile £74.75 - £72.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £70.00 £17.69 £21.75
% change year-on-year +295.70% -18.67% +45.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Farnborough

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Farnborough over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Farnborough

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Farnborough

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 10 (47.62%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Security Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Security Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Scrum Master
6 1 (4.76%) Security Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Middleware
1 10 (47.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Private Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (57.14%) Migration
4 10 (47.62%) Configuration Management
5 7 (33.33%) High Availability
6 5 (23.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (23.81%) SIEM
6 5 (23.81%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Open Source
7 4 (19.05%) OSINT
8 3 (14.29%) Agile
8 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Analysis
9 2 (9.52%) Event Correlation
9 2 (9.52%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 12 (57.14%) Python
3 10 (47.62%) C#
3 10 (47.62%) Java
3 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 10 (47.62%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) CASP
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) GCIH
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Ansible
2 13 (61.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Terraform
4 3 (14.29%) Grafana
4 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Red Hat
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk