Azure Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 15 63 19
Rank change year-on-year +48 -44 -13
Contract jobs citing Azure 32 10 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.97% 1.20% 8.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.51% 13.33% 43.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 40
10th Percentile £396 £394 £211
25th Percentile £466 £425 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £453 £425
Median % change year-on-year +43.65% +6.47% -26.09%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £641
90th Percentile £738 £808 £794
East of England median daily rate £580 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +26.78% -3.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £59.50
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £71.13
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +205.34% -6.43% +27.27%

All Cloud Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 79 75 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 24.61% 8.99% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 56 100
10th Percentile £396 £268 £169
25th Percentile £463 £413 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £614
90th Percentile £701 £763 £788
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 21
10th Percentile - £15.19 -
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.35 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.97 £18.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.61% -72.52% +167.35%
75th Percentile £31.64 £20.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £35.35 £22.33 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Hertfordshire 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
Welwyn Garden City - 4 £775 - 6
Stevenage +32 3 £350 - 75
Letchworth - 2 £463 - 1
Hatfield +7 1 £775 +55.00% 2
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 14 (43.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) SaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) Akamai
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) BGP
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DWDM
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.13%) IGRP
2 1 (3.13%) Internet
2 1 (3.13%) IPsec
2 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.13%) LAN
2 1 (3.13%) MPLS
2 1 (3.13%) OSPF
2 1 (3.13%) SNMP
2 1 (3.13%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
2 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Big Data
1 14 (43.75%) Hadoop
1 14 (43.75%) Tableau
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.13%) Flink
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) MSI
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 14 (43.75%) Senior
3 12 (37.50%) Data Science Developer
4 10 (31.25%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Environment Delivery Manager
6 3 (9.38%) Environment Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) Matplotlib
1 14 (43.75%) NumPy
1 14 (43.75%) Pandas
1 14 (43.75%) PyTorch
1 14 (43.75%) scikit-learn
1 14 (43.75%) Seaborn
1 14 (43.75%) TensorFlow
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Algorithms
2 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) FMCG
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Analytics
1 15 (46.88%) Artificial Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) Data Science
2 14 (43.75%) Data Analysis
2 14 (43.75%) Data Munging
2 14 (43.75%) Generative AI
2 14 (43.75%) LLM
2 14 (43.75%) Machine Learning
2 14 (43.75%) Reinforcement Learning
2 14 (43.75%) Visualisation
3 12 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 12 (37.50%) Data Analytics
3 12 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 12 (37.50%) Feature Engineering
3 12 (37.50%) Predictive Analytics
3 12 (37.50%) Statistical Modelling
3 12 (37.50%) Time Series Forecasting
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.50%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 14 (43.75%) R
3 3 (9.38%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Degree
1 13 (40.63%) Master's Degree
2 12 (37.50%) PhD
3 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCDP
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Arista
2 1 (3.13%) Blue Coat
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco
2 1 (3.13%) Citrix
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) F5
2 1 (3.13%) Juniper
2 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Riverbed
2 1 (3.13%) Spotify
2 1 (3.13%) Wind River
2 1 (3.13%) Zscaler