Azure Contracts in Sheffield

Microsoft Azure
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 27 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 23 37 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.21% 9.76% 13.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.33% 39.78% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 53
10th Percentile £185 £185 £500
25th Percentile £350 £250 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -29.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £700
90th Percentile £543 £629 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £425 £588
% change year-on-year +5.88% -27.66% +6.82%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 103 93 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.29% 24.54% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 113
10th Percentile £294 £191 £450
25th Percentile £400 £411 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -11.49% +11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £653 £638 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £448 £550
% change year-on-year +11.73% -18.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +22.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.27%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Sheffield

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Sheffield

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Sheffield

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) CloudBees
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.35%) 4G
2 1 (4.35%) ISDN
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) MPLS
2 1 (4.35%) NAS
2 1 (4.35%) PSTN
2 1 (4.35%) SSH
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) TestRail
3 2 (8.70%) JMeter
3 2 (8.70%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) QA Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) IT Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) IT Support
3 3 (13.04%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Tester
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Senior QA Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) LDAP
1 1 (4.35%) Middleware
1 1 (4.35%) RESTful
1 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) SCADA
1 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) AIX
3 1 (4.35%) Solaris
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Migration
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (13.04%) ERP
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Testing
6 2 (8.70%) B2B
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.70%) ETL
6 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Project Management
6 2 (8.70%) SDLC
6 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) ActionScript
3 2 (8.70%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Korn
4 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.35%) Perl
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CISSP
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CISA
2 1 (4.35%) CISM
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Nagios
3 1 (4.35%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
2 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.70%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (4.35%) Centrify
4 1 (4.35%) Commvault
4 1 (4.35%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Okta
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Thycotic
4 1 (4.35%) Veritas