Azure Contracts in Ipswich

Microsoft Azure
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 11.43% 13.16% 17.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.05% 45.45% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 20
10th Percentile - £524 £369
25th Percentile - £541 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +30.61% -17.86% +45.08%
75th Percentile - £609 -
90th Percentile - £626 £710
Suffolk median daily rate £250 £278 £700
% change year-on-year -9.91% -60.36% +45.83%

All Cloud Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19 11 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 54.29% 28.95% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 32
10th Percentile £170 £180 £313
25th Percentile £178 £303 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% -25.00% +51.35%
75th Percentile £238 £575 -
90th Percentile £442 £615 -
Suffolk median daily rate £215 £278 £700
% change year-on-year -22.52% -60.36% +64.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £11.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - -30.30% -
Suffolk median hourly rate £46.18 £11.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year +301.57% -30.30% +6.45%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Ipswich

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Ipswich

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Insurtech
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) logstash
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft