Azure Contracts in Guildford

Microsoft Azure
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Guildford 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 8 15 3
Rank change year-on-year +7 -12 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure 6 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Guildford 14.29% 2.41% 30.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 10.53% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £388 £387 £433
25th Percentile £468 £423 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £490 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.78% -14.78% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £553 -
90th Percentile £669 £586 £624
Surrey median daily rate £463 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -7.50% -6.98% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12 19 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 28.57% 22.89% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 22
10th Percentile £385 £155 £308
25th Percentile £400 £193 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -2.22% +40.63%
75th Percentile £588 - £575
90th Percentile £620 £626 £624
Surrey median daily rate £450 £450 £515
% change year-on-year - -12.62% +12.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £28.00 £23.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +17.15% +19.50% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Guildford

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Guildford

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Guildford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Guildford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Guildford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) IT Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk