Azure Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 501 925 1,051
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.72% 16.29% 14.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.41% 44.56% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 719 806
10th Percentile £319 £350 £303
25th Percentile £413 £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £606
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £545 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 10
10th Percentile £16.55 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £17.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £49.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.24% +117.78% -60.87%
75th Percentile £32.72 £70.00 £56.13
90th Percentile £40.79 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £58.65 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.32% +23.47% -7.77%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,376 2,076 2,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.44% 36.57% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 1,549 1,898
10th Percentile £263 £300 £190
25th Percentile £386 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £643 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 76
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +93.17% +7.89%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £21.00 £33.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +54.65% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West -8 283 £490 -2.00% 333
Yorkshire 0 192 £500 -9.09% 211
North East -1 32 £533 -11.25% 75
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England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 24 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.59%) Confluence
4 10 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.80%) Apache
6 4 (0.80%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Kentico
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.00%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.54%) AWS
2 87 (17.37%) Azure DevOps
3 74 (14.77%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (12.57%) GCP
5 52 (10.38%) Entra ID
6 43 (8.58%) Power Platform
7 32 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (6.19%) SaaS
9 29 (5.79%) GitHub
10 20 (3.99%) Serverless
11 19 (3.79%) IaaS
12 18 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 18 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.19%) Akamai
14 16 (3.19%) Cloudflare
15 15 (2.99%) PaaS
16 12 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (2.40%) Kong
17 10 (2.00%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.59%) Firewall
2 31 (6.19%) DNS
3 26 (5.19%) VPN
4 19 (3.79%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.79%) WAN
6 13 (2.59%) OSPF
7 12 (2.40%) LAN
8 10 (2.00%) Network Security
8 10 (2.00%) VLAN
9 9 (1.80%) HTTP
9 9 (1.80%) Wireshark
10 8 (1.60%) Wireless
11 7 (1.40%) Ethernet
11 7 (1.40%) Wireless Security
12 6 (1.20%) BGP
12 6 (1.20%) HTTPS
13 5 (1.00%) DHCP
13 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.80%) MPLS
14 4 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 34 (6.79%) Power BI
4 23 (4.59%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.19%) MySQL
7 13 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.00%) Big Data
10 9 (1.80%) GIS
10 9 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.40%) Redis
13 6 (1.20%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.20%) Tableau
14 5 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
14 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (7.98%) JIRA
2 35 (6.99%) Git
3 25 (4.99%) GitLab
4 20 (3.99%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.60%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.60%) Travis CI
7 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.20%) Hudson
7 6 (1.20%) Selenium
8 5 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.80%) AppScan
9 4 (0.80%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 48 (9.58%) Finance
2 48 (9.58%) Public Sector
3 41 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.59%) Retail
5 19 (3.79%) Banking
6 10 (2.00%) Law
7 8 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.40%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.00%) Legal
11 4 (0.80%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.80%) Marketing
12 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Local Government
13 2 (0.40%) Advertising
13 2 (0.40%) German Language
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 104 (20.76%) Architect
2 70 (13.97%) Developer
3 50 (9.98%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 41 (8.18%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (6.99%) Lead
7 31 (6.19%) Analyst
8 30 (5.99%) Senior
9 26 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 21 (4.19%) .NET Developer
10 21 (4.19%) Project Manager
11 20 (3.99%) Azure Architect
12 17 (3.39%) Network Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) Data Architect
14 15 (2.99%) Security Architect
15 13 (2.59%) Consultant
15 13 (2.59%) Support Engineer
16 12 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.58%) .NET
2 17 (3.39%) JSON
3 16 (3.19%) XML
4 13 (2.59%) .NET Core
5 12 (2.40%) .NET Framework
5 12 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.40%) HTML
5 12 (2.40%) REST
5 12 (2.40%) Web Services
6 11 (2.20%) React
6 11 (2.20%) YAML
7 10 (2.00%) Entity Framework
7 10 (2.00%) Kafka
7 10 (2.00%) SailPoint
7 10 (2.00%) SOAP
8 9 (1.80%) Node.js
9 8 (1.60%) CSS
9 8 (1.60%) RESTful
10 7 (1.40%) Spring
10 7 (1.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.99%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.39%) Public Cloud
3 15 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.40%) NHS
5 11 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.20%) Replication
9 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.00%) PKI
10 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.80%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.37%) Windows
2 46 (9.18%) Linux
3 24 (4.79%) Windows 10
4 19 (3.79%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.59%) Unix
6 8 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.60%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.80%) Android
8 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.40%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (34.33%) DevOps
2 130 (25.95%) Agile
3 72 (14.37%) Migration
4 69 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 65 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 44 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (8.38%) Analytics
9 40 (7.98%) Data Modelling
10 39 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
11 37 (7.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (7.39%) Scrum
12 34 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (6.59%) Data Management
13 33 (6.59%) ETL
13 33 (6.59%) Microservices
14 32 (6.39%) Project Delivery
14 32 (6.39%) Project Management
15 31 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (6.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 80 (15.97%) SQL
2 75 (14.97%) Python
3 57 (11.38%) PowerShell
4 35 (6.99%) C#
5 29 (5.79%) Bash
6 26 (5.19%) Java
7 25 (4.99%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.60%) Go
9 8 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.40%) C
10 7 (1.40%) PHP
11 5 (1.00%) Bicep
12 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.60%) Ruby
12 3 (0.60%) Scala
13 2 (0.40%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.40%) Perl
13 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 56 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.78%) Degree
4 18 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.20%) CCNA
8 10 (2.00%) CISSP
9 9 (1.80%) CISM
10 8 (1.60%) CCNP
10 8 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.00%) CCIE
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.80%) MCSE
12 4 (0.80%) VCAP
13 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.40%) MCITP
13 2 (0.40%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.19%) QA
2 14 (2.79%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.40%) NIST
4 6 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.20%) GDPR
5 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (16.57%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.39%) Docker
3 20 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.40%) HDFS
8 1 (0.20%) ACF2
8 1 (0.20%) IAG
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) RACF
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (10.98%) Terraform
2 39 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (4.99%) Ansible
4 21 (4.19%) Grafana
5 19 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.99%) Progress Chef
6 15 (2.99%) Puppet
7 14 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (2.20%) SCCM
9 8 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (1.60%) Kibana
9 8 (1.60%) logstash
10 5 (1.00%) Nessus
11 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.80%) Graylog
11 4 (0.80%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.80%) WebInspect
12 3 (0.60%) Autotask
Vendors
1 159 (31.74%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.59%) VMware
3 23 (4.59%) Databricks
4 20 (3.99%) Oracle
5 18 (3.59%) F5
6 17 (3.39%) Google
7 14 (2.79%) Splunk
8 12 (2.40%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.20%) Sophos
10 10 (2.00%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.80%) Cisco
12 7 (1.40%) SAP
12 7 (1.40%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.20%) Brio
14 5 (1.00%) IBM
14 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.80%) CA
15 4 (0.80%) Cadence
15 4 (0.80%) Citrix