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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 193 352 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 13.51% 19.63% 14.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.48% 48.55% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 275 307
10th Percentile £350 £360 £310
25th Percentile £413 £444 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +7.79%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.55% - +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% -42.59%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £18.00 £65.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -72.52% +191.11% -61.54%

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 529 725 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 37.02% 40.44% 37.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 545 786
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £406 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £656 £666
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 26
10th Percentile £22.90 £16.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +136.36% +71.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -54.11% +51.99% +26.80%

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 15 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 15 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 - 4
Oldham - 3 £450 - 2
Bolton -1 2 £525 - 1
Altrincham +2 1 £563 +18.42% 2
Bury - 1 £325 - 2
Cheadle - 1 £400 -
Salford - 1 £255 - 6
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%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.59%) Confluence
4 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.04%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.04%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.35%) AWS
2 38 (19.69%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (14.51%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (13.47%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.33%) GCP
6 15 (7.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.74%) Entra ID
8 12 (6.22%) SaaS
9 11 (5.70%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (3.63%) IaaS
11 7 (3.63%) PaaS
12 6 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.11%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.59%) Serverless
14 4 (2.07%) Azure Stack
14 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (2.07%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.70%) WAN
2 10 (5.18%) LAN
2 10 (5.18%) VPN
3 9 (4.66%) Firewall
4 8 (4.15%) OSPF
5 7 (3.63%) DNS
5 7 (3.63%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.63%) Wireless
5 7 (3.63%) Wireless Security
6 5 (2.59%) Network Security
6 5 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
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 25 (12.95%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (9.84%) Power BI
3 14 (7.25%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (6.22%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.63%) MySQL
5 7 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.55%) GIS
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
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%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (3.63%) 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
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) JMeter
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.29%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.70%) Finance
4 5 (2.59%) Banking
4 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.07%) Law
5 4 (2.07%) Legal
6 3 (1.55%) Retail
7 2 (1.04%) German Language
7 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Advertising
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (19.69%) Architect
2 30 (15.54%) Developer
3 24 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (11.92%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.81%) Senior
8 16 (8.29%) Lead
9 15 (7.77%) Analyst
10 10 (5.18%) Azure Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Data Architect
12 8 (4.15%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.11%) Support Engineer
15 5 (2.59%) Integration Developer
15 5 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
15 5 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.33%) .NET
2 7 (3.63%) HTML
3 6 (3.11%) .NET Framework
3 6 (3.11%) Entity Framework
3 6 (3.11%) PySpark
3 6 (3.11%) REST
4 5 (2.59%) CSS
4 5 (2.59%) JSON
4 5 (2.59%) RESTful
4 5 (2.59%) XML
5 4 (2.07%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.07%) Node.js
5 4 (2.07%) SailPoint
5 4 (2.07%) SOAP
6 3 (1.55%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.55%) React
6 3 (1.55%) Spring
7 2 (1.04%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.04%) pytest
7 2 (1.04%) SAML
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%) 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%) Public Cloud
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%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.04%) PKI
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.44%) Linux
2 21 (10.88%) Windows
3 8 (4.15%) Mac OS
4 6 (3.11%) 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 65 (33.68%) DevOps
2 51 (26.42%) Agile
3 28 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (13.99%) CI/CD
4 27 (13.99%) Migration
5 23 (11.92%) Analytics
6 20 (10.36%) Data Management
7 18 (9.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 18 (9.33%) ETL
8 15 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (7.77%) Project Delivery
9 14 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (7.25%) Data Modelling
10 13 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (6.74%) Data Architecture
10 13 (6.74%) Software Engineering
11 12 (6.22%) Microservices
12 11 (5.70%) Computer Science
12 11 (5.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.13%) SQL
2 25 (12.95%) Python
3 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
4 21 (10.88%) C#
5 12 (6.22%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.66%) Java
7 8 (4.15%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.59%) PHP
8 5 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.07%) C
9 4 (2.07%) Go
10 3 (1.55%) Bash
10 3 (1.55%) 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 19 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.33%) Degree
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 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) CCNP
8 2 (1.04%) MCITP
8 2 (1.04%) MCSE
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CCIE
9 1 (0.52%) GIAC
9 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.52%) MCTS
9 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 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (13.47%) Terraform
2 18 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.11%) Ansible
3 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (2.07%) SCCM
5 3 (1.55%) Autotask
5 3 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 67 (34.72%) 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
10 2 (1.04%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.04%) IDERA
10 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.04%) Splunk
10 2 (1.04%) Tufin
10 2 (1.04%) Zscaler