Azure Contracts in Luton

Microsoft Azure
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Luton 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 10.10% 7.69% 5.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.48% 44.00% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £324 £296 -
25th Percentile - £347 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £438 £300
Median % change year-on-year +32.57% +45.83% -35.14%
75th Percentile - £522 £322
90th Percentile - £569 £406
Bedfordshire median daily rate £580 £375 £300
% change year-on-year +54.67% +25.00% -42.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £100.00 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year +52.67% - -

All Cloud Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29 25 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 29.29% 17.48% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 27
10th Percentile - £383 £313
25th Percentile £500 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £580 -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £575 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +21.05% -8.65% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £100.00 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year +52.67% - -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Luton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Luton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Luton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Luton over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Luton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Luton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (40.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Deskside Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
1 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (40.00%) Inventory Management
1 4 (40.00%) Logistics
2 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
2 2 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (20.00%) Record to Report
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) VCAP
4 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (10.00%) CCSP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) GRC
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Ariba
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Anaplan
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Hyperion
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler