Azure Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 309 601 744
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.25% 17.57% 14.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.64% 50.17% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 434 585
10th Percentile £294 £316 £356
25th Percentile £375 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £633 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £541 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.78% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £20.73 £13.84 -
25th Percentile £21.90 £17.72 £32.50
Median hourly rate £25.23 £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -24.34% +61.22%
75th Percentile £29.93 - £37.50
90th Percentile £31.92 £28.59 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £48.27
% change year-on-year -36.36% +13.94% -4.89%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 677 1,198 1,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.65% 35.03% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 864 1,223
10th Percentile £198 £213 £203
25th Percentile £325 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £677 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 33
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.80
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.86 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +7.77% +16.67%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £21.00
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands -5 226 £550 +5.26% 280
East Midlands -3 81 £463 +2.78% 194
Azure
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 32 (10.36%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.97%) CMS
3 3 (0.97%) Confluence
3 3 (0.97%) Drupal
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.65%) IIS
4 2 (0.65%) WordPress
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.97%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (0.97%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (25.24%) Microsoft 365
2 56 (18.12%) AWS
3 52 (16.83%) Power Platform
4 51 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (9.71%) Entra ID
6 23 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (6.47%) GCP
7 20 (6.47%) Serverless
8 19 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 19 (6.15%) SaaS
9 17 (5.50%) Azure Functions
9 17 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (4.85%) OneDrive
10 15 (4.85%) PowerApps
11 14 (4.53%) PaaS
12 13 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.91%) Azure App Service
13 9 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.09%) Firewall
2 24 (7.77%) DNS
3 18 (5.83%) Network Security
3 18 (5.83%) VPN
4 11 (3.56%) SAN
5 10 (3.24%) LAN
5 10 (3.24%) WAN
6 8 (2.59%) NetScaler
7 6 (1.94%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.62%) SSL
9 3 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.97%) NAS
9 3 (0.97%) VLAN
9 3 (0.97%) VoIP
9 3 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.97%) Wireless
10 2 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.65%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.32%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.94%) Power BI
2 36 (11.65%) SQL Server
3 20 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (4.85%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.24%) Big Data
6 7 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.94%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.62%) DB2
8 5 (1.62%) MySQL
8 5 (1.62%) OLAP
8 5 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.29%) Metadata
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.97%) OLTP
10 3 (0.97%) Tableau
11 2 (0.65%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.50%) Git
2 8 (2.59%) JIRA
3 7 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.27%) Selenium
4 6 (1.94%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.62%) NUnit
6 3 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.97%) Hudson
6 3 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.97%) Subversion
7 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.65%) kappa
7 2 (0.65%) Moq
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 78 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.15%) Finance
3 28 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.24%) Legal
5 10 (3.24%) Retail
6 9 (2.91%) Banking
7 7 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.97%) Games
11 3 (0.97%) German Language
11 3 (0.97%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Electronics
12 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.32%) Law
12 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (19.42%) Architect
2 50 (16.18%) Developer
3 32 (10.36%) Analyst
4 27 (8.74%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (7.44%) Data Engineer
6 22 (7.12%) Senior
7 21 (6.80%) Azure Architect
8 17 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.88%) Consultant
10 12 (3.88%) Lead
11 10 (3.24%) Administrator
11 10 (3.24%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 10 (3.24%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.24%) Test Analyst
12 9 (2.91%) Azure Developer
12 9 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.91%) IT Manager
13 8 (2.59%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.59%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.68%) .NET
2 10 (3.24%) OAuth
3 9 (2.91%) SAML
4 8 (2.59%) AngularJS
4 8 (2.59%) React
5 7 (2.27%) RESTful
6 6 (1.94%) .NET Framework
6 6 (1.94%) XML
7 5 (1.62%) ADO
7 5 (1.62%) HTML
7 5 (1.62%) JSON
7 5 (1.62%) LDAP
7 5 (1.62%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.62%) SOAP
7 5 (1.62%) Web Services
8 4 (1.29%) CSS
8 4 (1.29%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.29%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.97%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.85%) Public Cloud
2 11 (3.56%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.27%) PKI
5 6 (1.94%) Digital Signage
5 6 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.29%) Clustering
7 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.29%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.29%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.29%) Replication
8 3 (0.97%) NHS
8 3 (0.97%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 62 (20.06%) Windows
2 34 (11.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.50%) Windows 10
4 15 (4.85%) Apple iOS
4 15 (4.85%) Linux
5 14 (4.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.91%) Android
6 9 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (2.59%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.29%) VMS
10 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.65%) Unix
12 1 (0.32%) AIX
12 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (25.89%) DevOps
2 71 (22.98%) Agile
3 53 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (14.56%) Migration
5 41 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (11.00%) Analytics
7 29 (9.39%) CI/CD
8 26 (8.41%) ITIL
9 23 (7.44%) ETL
10 21 (6.80%) Data Modelling
11 20 (6.47%) Change Management
12 19 (6.15%) Computer Science
12 19 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (5.83%) Decision-Making
13 18 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (5.83%) Machine Learning
14 17 (5.50%) CRM
14 17 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (5.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 66 (21.36%) SQL
2 45 (14.56%) PowerShell
3 28 (9.06%) C#
4 26 (8.41%) Python
5 12 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.91%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.59%) Bicep
7 8 (2.59%) Java
7 8 (2.59%) Swift
8 7 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.62%) Bash
9 5 (1.62%) C
9 5 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.65%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.32%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 30 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.74%) Degree
2 27 (8.74%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.83%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.91%) CISSP
6 8 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.94%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.29%) ISEB
9 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.29%) PMP
10 3 (0.97%) CCNA
10 3 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.80%) QA
2 5 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.29%) SLA
4 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 55 (17.80%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.21%) Docker
5 12 (3.88%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (2.59%) XenApp
7 8 (2.59%) XenDesktop
8 5 (1.62%) vSphere
9 4 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (9.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.47%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (6.15%) Terraform
4 15 (4.85%) SCCM
5 12 (3.88%) Ansible
5 12 (3.88%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.62%) SysTrack
7 3 (0.97%) Autotask
7 3 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.65%) Kibana
8 2 (0.65%) logstash
8 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.32%) linkerd
9 1 (0.32%) Packer
9 1 (0.32%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.32%) PowerBroker
9 1 (0.32%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 116 (37.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.80%) VMware
3 20 (6.47%) Databricks
4 15 (4.85%) Citrix
5 14 (4.53%) Oracle
6 11 (3.56%) Okta
7 9 (2.91%) NetApp
7 9 (2.91%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.94%) Cisco
9 5 (1.62%) F5
9 5 (1.62%) Informatica
9 5 (1.62%) New Relic
9 5 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.62%) SAP
10 4 (1.29%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.29%) JD Edwards
10 4 (1.29%) Workday
11 3 (0.97%) Apple