Azure Contracts in Herefordshire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 26 2
Rank change year-on-year +22 -24 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 41.67% 1.72% 46.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 76.92% 100.00% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 16
10th Percentile £681 - £481
25th Percentile £700 £725 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £900 £775 £700
90th Percentile - - £713
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £514
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.06% -1.67%

All Cloud Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13 1 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 54.17% 1.72% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 20
10th Percentile £411 - £446
25th Percentile £653 £725 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £900 £775 £691
90th Percentile - - £703
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Herefordshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Herefordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Herefordshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Ledbury - 9 £800 - 3
Hereford +19 1 £525 -30.00% 9
Azure
West Midlands

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) API Design
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NCSC
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware