Azure Contracts in Sheffield

Microsoft Azure
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure 37 63 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 9.76% 14.16% 14.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.95% 46.32% 43.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 53 48
10th Percentile £185 £500 £377
25th Percentile £250 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +5.49% +15.19%
75th Percentile £605 £700 £650
90th Percentile £629 - £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -27.66% +6.82% +18.60%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 95 136 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 25.07% 30.56% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 104 101
10th Percentile £193 £430 £225
25th Percentile £408 £504 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £600
90th Percentile £638 - £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £448 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.64% +10.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +22.14% -14.94%
75th Percentile - £22.50 £17.72
90th Percentile - - £18.79
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.06
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.27% -11.40%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Sheffield over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Sheffield

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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 6 (16.22%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) GCP
2 22 (59.46%) AWS
3 11 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (16.22%) Apigee
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub
4 6 (16.22%) Kong
5 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
1 6 (16.22%) HTTP
1 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
1 6 (16.22%) VPN
2 5 (13.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) MongoDB
2 6 (16.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) JIRA
3 6 (16.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (16.22%) CircleCI
3 6 (16.22%) GitLab
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.22%) Travis CI
General
1 20 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Law
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Database Specialist
3 4 (10.81%) DBA
3 4 (10.81%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) IT Support
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB DBA
3 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) IT Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) XML
2 6 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (16.22%) JSON
2 6 (16.22%) YAML
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) JSP
3 1 (2.70%) LDAP
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Servlets
3 1 (2.70%) SOAP
3 1 (2.70%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Structures
1 6 (16.22%) Replication
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
1 8 (21.62%) Unix
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Agile
1 12 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
1 12 (32.43%) Task Automation
2 11 (29.73%) DevOps
2 11 (29.73%) DevSecOps
3 8 (21.62%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
4 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
4 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) API Development
5 6 (16.22%) API Integration
5 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (16.22%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (16.22%) Customer Service
5 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (16.22%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (16.22%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Python
2 15 (40.54%) Bash
3 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Go
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.22%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) ACF2
3 1 (2.70%) IAG
3 1 (2.70%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (16.22%) Ansible
2 6 (16.22%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (16.22%) Grafana
2 6 (16.22%) Kibana
2 6 (16.22%) logstash
2 6 (16.22%) Progress Chef
2 6 (16.22%) Prometheus
2 6 (16.22%) Puppet
2 6 (16.22%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.70%) SCCM
3 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow