Azure Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Azure
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 23 8
Rank change year-on-year +11 -15 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 18 8 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.25% 3.77% 16.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.86% 17.39% 51.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 40
10th Percentile £208 £161 £405
25th Percentile £250 £163 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £492
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -13.62% +9.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £583 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £17.50
75th Percentile - £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £71.25 £17.50 £55.84
% change year-on-year +307.14% -68.66% +148.18%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 42 46 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.25% 21.70% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 75
10th Percentile £139 £143 £283
25th Percentile £193 £178 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £225 £475
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -52.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £388 £538
90th Percentile £550 £443 £675
North West median daily rate £466 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £16.50 £18.75
90th Percentile - £18.15 £23.88
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
% change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +3.05%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Merseyside over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Liverpool +3 12 £475 +11.76% 247
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Google Ads
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 3 (16.67%) LAN
2 3 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (16.67%) WAN
2 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (16.67%) Wireless
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) SSH
4 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Support
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) IVR
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Android
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Analytics
2 6 (33.33%) Information Security
3 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Fintech
5 3 (16.67%) High Availability
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Korn
2 1 (5.56%) Perl
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) MCSA
3 1 (5.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Apple
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Darktrace
3 2 (11.11%) Varonis
4 1 (5.56%) Criteo
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler