Azure Contracts in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Azure
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.06% 6.98% 7.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.54% 25.42% 36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 14
10th Percentile £365 £395 £391
25th Percentile £413 £437 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -11.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £473 £569
90th Percentile £725 £491 £666
East Midlands median daily rate £465 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +0.54% +2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.90
25th Percentile - - £12.87
Median hourly rate - - £15.11
75th Percentile - - £16.73
90th Percentile - - £17.32
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £30.50 £26.48
% change year-on-year -50.52% +15.18% -24.34%

All Cloud Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 57 59 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 34.55% 27.44% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 35
10th Percentile £338 £172 £172
25th Percentile £359 £356 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £445 £330
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% +34.85% -17.50%
75th Percentile £497 £493 £500
90th Percentile £537 £521 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £419 £445
% change year-on-year +10.38% -5.84% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £14.51 - £11.90
25th Percentile £15.66 - £12.89
Median hourly rate £17.95 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% -3.58% -15.11%
75th Percentile £19.86 - £16.12
90th Percentile £20.78 - £17.08
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.05 £16.63 £18.86
% change year-on-year +2.50% -11.82% +9.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Northamptonshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Northamptonshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Northamptonshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Northamptonshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Northampton -3 9 £483 +8.43% 9
Azure
East Midlands

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Introscope
1 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) J2EE
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) AIX
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Rocky
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Compliance Management
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Business Development
3 2 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) AirWatch
1 3 (30.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) CA Wily
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) HP