Azure Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 289 579 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.46% 18.12% 14.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.62% 48.33% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 441 464
10th Percentile £325 £363 £281
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £612
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 8
10th Percentile £16.40 £16.55 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.63 £20.00 £16.81
Median hourly rate £18.00 £65.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.52% +191.11% -60.87%
75th Percentile £19.13 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £19.20 - £57.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
% change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +2.36%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 886 1,198 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.07% 37.50% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 887 1,070
10th Percentile £284 £311 £213
25th Percentile £393 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the North West

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester -3 201 £500 - 233
Cheshire -11 49 £506 -10.08% 60
Lancashire -1 17 £650 +30.00% 31
Merseyside -16 9 £400 -23.81% 41
Cumbria -34 4 £522 +22.71% 7
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 17 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.11%) Confluence
4 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.69%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.73%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.69%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (28.03%) AWS
2 51 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (14.19%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (10.03%) GCP
5 27 (9.34%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.34%) Power Platform
6 16 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 16 (5.54%) SaaS
7 15 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (3.81%) IaaS
10 9 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (3.11%) PaaS
11 8 (2.77%) Azure Stack
11 8 (2.77%) Mimecast
11 8 (2.77%) Serverless
12 7 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (2.08%) GitHub
13 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.92%) VPN
2 18 (6.23%) Firewall
3 14 (4.84%) DNS
4 12 (4.15%) OSPF
5 11 (3.81%) LAN
5 11 (3.81%) WAN
6 9 (3.11%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.11%) VLAN
7 8 (2.77%) Wireless
8 7 (2.42%) DSL
8 7 (2.42%) Ethernet
8 7 (2.42%) Wireless Security
9 6 (2.08%) Network Security
10 5 (1.73%) BGP
10 5 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.38%) DHCP
12 3 (1.04%) DMZ
12 3 (1.04%) MPLS
12 3 (1.04%) SAN
12 3 (1.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.34%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (6.92%) Power BI
3 17 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.50%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.77%) MySQL
7 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.73%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.38%) GIS
9 4 (1.38%) OLAP
9 4 (1.38%) OLTP
9 4 (1.38%) Oracle OLAP
9 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.04%) Big Data
10 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.69%) Redis
11 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (9.69%) JIRA
2 13 (4.50%) Git
3 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.77%) GitLab
5 6 (2.08%) Hudson
6 5 (1.73%) Selenium
7 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.04%) Maven
8 3 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.04%) Postman
8 3 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.69%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.35%) Gradle
10 1 (0.35%) Mockito
10 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.15%) Finance
3 36 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.15%) Banking
6 8 (2.77%) Retail
7 7 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.08%) Law
9 4 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (0.69%) German Language
10 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) French Language
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 59 (20.42%) Architect
2 37 (12.80%) Developer
3 30 (10.38%) Azure Engineer
4 29 (10.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (7.96%) Senior
7 21 (7.27%) Analyst
7 21 (7.27%) Lead
8 19 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (5.88%) Network Engineer
10 13 (4.50%) Azure Architect
11 12 (4.15%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.81%) Consultant
12 11 (3.81%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.46%) Security Architect
13 10 (3.46%) Windows Engineer
14 9 (3.11%) Support Engineer
15 7 (2.42%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.96%) .NET
2 13 (4.50%) REST
3 9 (3.11%) .NET Framework
3 9 (3.11%) Entity Framework
4 8 (2.77%) .NET Core
4 8 (2.77%) HTML
4 8 (2.77%) JSON
4 8 (2.77%) SOAP
5 7 (2.42%) Kafka
5 7 (2.42%) React
5 7 (2.42%) Web Services
5 7 (2.42%) XML
6 6 (2.08%) CSS
6 6 (2.08%) Node.js
6 6 (2.08%) RESTful
6 6 (2.08%) Spring
6 6 (2.08%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.73%) IBM Integration Bus
8 4 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.38%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.15%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.42%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.42%) Virtual Team
4 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.08%) PKI
4 6 (2.08%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.73%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.38%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.38%) Clustering
6 4 (1.38%) DataPower
6 4 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.38%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.61%) Windows
2 34 (11.76%) Linux
3 11 (3.81%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.11%) Unix
4 9 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.73%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.69%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (35.64%) DevOps
2 77 (26.64%) Agile
3 48 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.19%) CI/CD
5 37 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (12.80%) Migration
6 26 (9.00%) Data Management
7 24 (8.30%) Analytics
7 24 (8.30%) Project Delivery
8 22 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (6.92%) Data Modelling
9 20 (6.92%) Microservices
10 19 (6.57%) Architectural Patterns
10 19 (6.57%) ETL
10 19 (6.57%) Identity Access Management
10 19 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (5.88%) Scrum
11 17 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (5.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.49%) SQL
2 38 (13.15%) PowerShell
3 33 (11.42%) Python
4 26 (9.00%) C#
5 16 (5.54%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.84%) Java
7 9 (3.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (2.77%) Ruby
9 7 (2.42%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.08%) Go
11 5 (1.73%) C
11 5 (1.73%) PHP
12 4 (1.38%) Bash
13 3 (1.04%) Bicep
14 2 (0.69%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) Fortran
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) Scala
15 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.00%) Degree
4 17 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.46%) CISSP
7 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.11%) CCNA
7 9 (3.11%) CISM
8 8 (2.77%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.08%) CCNP
10 5 (1.73%) CCIE
10 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.38%) MCSE
12 3 (1.04%) VCAP
13 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.69%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.19%) QA
2 12 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.08%) NIST
5 4 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.04%) GDPR
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (16.26%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.19%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.73%) Docker
4 5 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (10.38%) Terraform
2 22 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (5.19%) Ansible
4 11 (3.81%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.11%) SCCM
6 7 (2.42%) CFEngine
6 7 (2.42%) PowerBroker
6 7 (2.42%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.42%) Puppet
7 4 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.04%) Autotask
8 3 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.04%) Grafana
8 3 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.69%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) Avamar
10 1 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 93 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.65%) VMware
3 16 (5.54%) Databricks
4 15 (5.19%) Oracle
5 11 (3.81%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.81%) Sophos
6 9 (3.11%) Google
7 7 (2.42%) Cisco
8 6 (2.08%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.08%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.73%) IBM
9 5 (1.73%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.38%) CA
10 4 (1.38%) Cadence
10 4 (1.38%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.38%) TSYS
11 3 (1.04%) Datto
11 3 (1.04%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.04%) Splunk