Azure Contracts in Leicester

Microsoft Azure
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 10 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 9 17 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 11.69% 15.04% 33.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.86% 42.50% 79.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 35
10th Percentile £374 £319 £299
25th Percentile £419 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% +8.12% +13.33%
75th Percentile £469 £625 £444
90th Percentile £515 £688 £481
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £460 £425
% change year-on-year +0.65% +8.12% +6.25%

All Cloud Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21 40 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 27.27% 35.40% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 41
10th Percentile - £286 £213
25th Percentile £250 £319 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £409 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -3.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £469 £586 £450
90th Percentile £536 £631 £525
Leicestershire median daily rate £388 £418 £420
% change year-on-year -7.30% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £15.63
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.56
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £21.56
90th Percentile - - £22.88
Leicestershire median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -24.00% +33.33% -13.79%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Leicester

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Leicester

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Power Query
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Android Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (44.44%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) JWT
2 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Android Development
3 4 (44.44%) API Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
6 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) PLM
6 1 (11.11%) Predictive Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Kotlin
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) R
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Perforce
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce