Azure Contracts in Northampton

Microsoft Azure
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure 9 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 7.32% 9.45% 8.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.43% 29.27% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £352 £400 £455
25th Percentile £417 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -11.00% -12.09%
75th Percentile £575 £486 £556
90th Percentile £725 £513 £688
Northamptonshire median daily rate £465 £445 £500
% change year-on-year +4.49% -11.00% -13.04%

All Cloud Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 42 41 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 34.15% 32.28% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £339 £321 £168
25th Percentile £358 £356 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £525 £495 £544
90th Percentile £537 £523 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £436 £445 £330
% change year-on-year -2.02% +34.85% -21.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% -15.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Northampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Northampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Introscope
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) J2EE
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) AIX
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Rocky
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Business Development
3 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) AirWatch
1 3 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) CA Wily
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) AppDynamics
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle