Azure Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 193 348 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 13.30% 18.97% 14.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.07% 47.80% 39.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 308
10th Percentile £323 £325 £311
25th Percentile £413 £447 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.39% +7.84%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - £20.00 £21.50
25th Percentile - £57.50 £23.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year - +80.65% -
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £18.00 £67.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -73.43% +201.11% -61.21%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 535 728 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.87% 39.69% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 549 785
10th Percentile £307 £325 £289
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £656 £671
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.95% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 16
10th Percentile £22.58 £18.65 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £26.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +271.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £25.94
90th Percentile £74.30 - £42.50
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £18.84
% change year-on-year -59.44% +110.16% +8.45%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Wigan -1 6 £400 - 5
Oldham - 3 £450 - 3
Salford +2 2 £255 -60.77% 8
Bolton -3 2 £525 -
Altrincham +2 1 £563 +18.42% 7
Bury - 1 £325 - 3
Cheadle - 1 £400 -
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.59%) Confluence
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.04%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) SAP Retail
2 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.87%) AWS
2 38 (19.69%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (15.03%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (11.92%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.33%) GCP
6 15 (7.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (6.74%) Entra ID
8 12 (6.22%) SaaS
9 11 (5.70%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.63%) IaaS
11 7 (3.63%) PaaS
12 6 (3.11%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (2.59%) Serverless
14 4 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (2.07%) Azure Stack
14 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (2.07%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.18%) LAN
1 10 (5.18%) VPN
1 10 (5.18%) WAN
2 9 (4.66%) Firewall
3 8 (4.15%) OSPF
4 7 (3.63%) DNS
4 7 (3.63%) Ethernet
4 7 (3.63%) Wireless
4 7 (3.63%) Wireless Security
5 5 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (2.07%) Network Security
7 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.55%) VLAN
7 3 (1.55%) VoIP
8 2 (1.04%) SAN
9 1 (0.52%) BGP
9 1 (0.52%) HTTP
9 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.52%) IPsec
9 1 (0.52%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.29%) Power BI
3 11 (5.70%) Data Lake
3 11 (5.70%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.63%) MySQL
5 7 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.55%) GIS
7 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.04%) Big Data
8 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.04%) Redis
8 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.04%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) JIRA
2 6 (3.11%) GitLab
2 6 (3.11%) Hudson
3 5 (2.59%) Git
4 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.07%) Selenium
5 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.04%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.04%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) JUnit
7 1 (0.52%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.74%) Finance
4 11 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.11%) Retail
6 5 (2.59%) Banking
6 5 (2.59%) Law
6 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Legal
8 2 (1.04%) German Language
8 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 37 (19.17%) Architect
2 30 (15.54%) Developer
3 27 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (11.40%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.81%) Senior
8 16 (8.29%) Analyst
9 15 (7.77%) Lead
10 10 (5.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.66%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.66%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.63%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) Support Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Software Engineer
14 5 (2.59%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 5 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.81%) .NET
2 7 (3.63%) HTML
2 7 (3.63%) REST
3 6 (3.11%) .NET Framework
3 6 (3.11%) Entity Framework
4 5 (2.59%) CSS
4 5 (2.59%) JSON
4 5 (2.59%) RESTful
4 5 (2.59%) XML
5 4 (2.07%) Node.js
5 4 (2.07%) PySpark
5 4 (2.07%) SailPoint
5 4 (2.07%) SOAP
6 3 (1.55%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.55%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.55%) Kafka
6 3 (1.55%) React
7 2 (1.04%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.04%) pytest
7 2 (1.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.22%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.07%) Clustering
3 4 (2.07%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.07%) Reference Data
3 4 (2.07%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.04%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.95%) Linux
2 23 (11.92%) Windows
3 8 (4.15%) Mac OS
4 7 (3.63%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.07%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.04%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.52%) Unix
9 1 (0.52%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.75%) DevOps
2 55 (28.50%) Agile
3 29 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (14.51%) CI/CD
4 28 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (14.51%) Migration
5 20 (10.36%) Analytics
5 20 (10.36%) Data Management
6 18 (9.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 16 (8.29%) ETL
7 16 (8.29%) Project Delivery
8 15 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (7.25%) Data Modelling
10 13 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (6.22%) Computer Science
11 12 (6.22%) Customer Service
11 12 (6.22%) Microservices
11 12 (6.22%) Software Engineering
12 11 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (5.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.06%) SQL
2 24 (12.44%) PowerShell
3 22 (11.40%) Python
4 20 (10.36%) C#
5 11 (5.70%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.15%) Java
6 8 (4.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (2.59%) PHP
7 5 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.07%) C
8 4 (2.07%) Go
9 3 (1.55%) Bash
10 2 (1.04%) Bicep
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) Fortran
11 1 (0.52%) Perl
11 1 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (10.36%) Degree
1 20 (10.36%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.18%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.66%) CCNA
5 9 (4.66%) CISSP
6 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.15%) CISM
6 8 (4.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.04%) CCNP
7 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.04%) MCITP
7 2 (1.04%) MCSE
8 1 (0.52%) CCIE
8 1 (0.52%) GIAC
8 1 (0.52%) MCTS
8 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.25%) QA
2 11 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.66%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.59%) NIST
5 4 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.55%) GDPR
7 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (15.54%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.22%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.07%) Docker
6 3 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (12.95%) Terraform
2 19 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.63%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.11%) Ansible
5 4 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.07%) SCCM
6 3 (1.55%) Autotask
6 3 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.55%) Grafana
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 63 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.33%) VMware
3 13 (6.74%) Databricks
4 9 (4.66%) Oracle
5 8 (4.15%) Sophos
6 6 (3.11%) Cisco
7 5 (2.59%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.07%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.07%) Google
8 4 (2.07%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.55%) Apple
9 3 (1.55%) Datto
9 3 (1.55%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.04%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.04%) Splunk
10 2 (1.04%) Tufin
10 2 (1.04%) Virgin Media
10 2 (1.04%) Zscaler