Azure Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 14 20 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 77 104 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.32% 6.46% 12.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.54% 36.88% 51.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 76 144
10th Percentile £376 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £484 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year - +3.14% +11.50%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £641
90th Percentile £675 £650 £681
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.74% +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £48.55
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £19.97 £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.94% -53.33% +20.68%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.75 £38.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +37.01% -42.96% +26.17%

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 181 282 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 24.26% 17.52% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 168 231
10th Percentile £281 £277 £250
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £639
90th Percentile £657 £673 £688
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 24
10th Percentile £17.20 - £17.11
25th Percentile £19.24 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £17.69 £29.58
Median % change year-on-year +210.91% -40.19% +47.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £24.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.25 £35.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Hampshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Hampshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Hampshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Hampshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Hampshire 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
Southampton +9 13 £500 +11.11% 90
Basingstoke +8 13 £575 -8.00% 74
Havant +4 12 £613 +12.59%
Farnborough -1 6 £513 +4.59% 14
Eastleigh - 5 £500 - 11
Portsmouth +11 3 £309 -42.82% 65
Winchester +4 3 £498 - 12
Fareham - 2 £415 - 2
Andover +4 1 £200 -54.29% 2
Lyndhurst - 1 - -
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 11 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.19%) Anypoint
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.19%) Mule
2 4 (5.19%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.77%) AWS
2 20 (25.97%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.39%) SaaS
5 7 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.19%) Cloudflare
7 3 (3.90%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.90%) GCP
7 3 (3.90%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.30%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.30%) OCI
9 1 (1.30%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.08%) VPN
2 13 (16.88%) Firewall
3 9 (11.69%) LAN
4 8 (10.39%) Internet
4 8 (10.39%) WAN
5 7 (9.09%) Network Security
6 5 (6.49%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (6.49%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (6.49%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (6.49%) Junos
6 5 (6.49%) SSL
7 4 (5.19%) MPLS
8 2 (2.60%) Wireless
9 1 (1.30%) NGFW
9 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.60%) MySQL
3 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Military
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Finance
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Automotive
6 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Legal
6 1 (1.30%) Local Government
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Police
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) Senior
2 11 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) IT Manager
3 8 (10.39%) IT Services Manager
3 8 (10.39%) Service Manager
4 7 (9.09%) Architect
4 7 (9.09%) Developer
4 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Applications Packager
5 6 (7.79%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared Application Packager
5 6 (7.79%) Senior IT Manager
5 6 (7.79%) Senior Manager
5 6 (7.79%) Senior Service Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) MuleSoft Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) Web Services
2 4 (5.19%) JSON
2 4 (5.19%) RAML
2 4 (5.19%) SOAP
2 4 (5.19%) XML
3 3 (3.90%) RESTful
4 2 (2.60%) Middleware
4 2 (2.60%) REST
5 1 (1.30%) OAuth
5 1 (1.30%) React
5 1 (1.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 11 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (7.79%) Client/Server
5 4 (5.19%) PKI
6 3 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.08%) Linux
1 17 (22.08%) Windows
2 13 (16.88%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.09%) CentOS
3 7 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 7 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (7.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) Agile
2 17 (22.08%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (22.08%) DevOps
3 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (19.48%) Application Packaging
5 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.69%) Analytics
7 9 (11.69%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (11.69%) Security Monitoring
8 8 (10.39%) DevSecOps
9 7 (9.09%) Case Management
9 7 (9.09%) Change Control
9 7 (9.09%) Contract Management
9 7 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (7.79%) Application Virtualisation
10 6 (7.79%) Roadmaps
10 6 (7.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (7.79%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) Python
2 19 (24.68%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.09%) Java
4 6 (7.79%) VBScript
5 5 (6.49%) SQL
5 5 (6.49%) VB
6 4 (5.19%) DataWeave
7 3 (3.90%) Bash
8 2 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.60%) PHP
9 1 (1.30%) C#
9 1 (1.30%) Go
9 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.30%) Perl
9 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (46.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) DV Cleared
3 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) Degree
5 6 (7.79%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.49%) CISSP
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.19%) CCIE
8 3 (3.90%) CISM
9 2 (2.60%) CCNA
9 2 (2.60%) CCNP
9 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.30%) CEH
10 1 (1.30%) MCSE
10 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) SLA
2 3 (3.90%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.60%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.09%) vSphere
4 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (24.68%) Ansible
2 18 (23.38%) Terraform
3 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
5 7 (9.09%) Nessus
5 7 (9.09%) vCenter Server
6 5 (6.49%) FortiGate
7 4 (5.19%) CloudHub
8 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 34 (44.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.88%) VMware
3 11 (14.29%) Cisco
4 9 (11.69%) Citrix
4 9 (11.69%) F5
5 7 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 6 (7.79%) MuleSoft
7 4 (5.19%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.19%) Databricks
7 4 (5.19%) Fortinet
7 4 (5.19%) Juniper
7 4 (5.19%) Oracle
7 4 (5.19%) Zscaler
8 3 (3.90%) Thales
9 2 (2.60%) ArcSight