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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure 49 61 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.93% 13.71% 14.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.67% 42.96% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 52 53
10th Percentile £185 £500 £389
25th Percentile £411 £504 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £594 £590
Median % change year-on-year -14.95% +0.64% +29.32%
75th Percentile £602 £700 £650
90th Percentile £628 - £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.30% +31.50%

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 105 142 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 27.70% 31.91% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 112 112
10th Percentile £250 £450 £300
25th Percentile £419 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £628
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - £17.50 £16.09
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +19.40% -12.99%
75th Percentile - £22.50 £18.91
90th Percentile - - £19.66
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

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Sheffield over the 6 months to 22 May 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 9 (18.37%) Confluence
2 8 (16.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (75.51%) AWS
1 37 (75.51%) GCP
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (18.37%) GitHub
3 9 (18.37%) Kong
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.29%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 7 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (14.29%) Serverless
5 6 (12.24%) Apigee
6 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) DNS
1 9 (18.37%) Firewall
1 9 (18.37%) HTTP
1 9 (18.37%) TCP/IP
1 9 (18.37%) VPN
2 5 (10.20%) HTTPS
3 3 (6.12%) BIG-IP
3 3 (6.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (6.12%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (6.12%) SSL
4 1 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (16.33%) Big Data
2 8 (16.33%) Hadoop
2 8 (16.33%) MongoDB
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 7 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (46.94%) Git
2 17 (34.69%) Jenkins
3 10 (20.41%) JIRA
4 9 (18.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (18.37%) CircleCI
4 9 (18.37%) GitLab
4 9 (18.37%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 19 (38.78%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Law
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Database Specialist
6 4 (8.16%) DBA
6 4 (8.16%) IT Support
6 4 (8.16%) MongoDB DBA
7 3 (6.12%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) IT Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) XML
2 9 (18.37%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (18.37%) JSON
2 9 (18.37%) YAML
3 8 (16.33%) Kafka
4 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
4 4 (8.16%) gRPC
4 4 (8.16%) JWT
4 4 (8.16%) OAuth
4 4 (8.16%) OpenAPI
4 4 (8.16%) RESTful
4 4 (8.16%) Swagger
5 1 (2.04%) .NET
5 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.04%) HTML
5 1 (2.04%) JSP
5 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.04%) Servlets
5 1 (2.04%) SOAP
5 1 (2.04%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.24%) Replication
3 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
1 8 (16.33%) Unix
2 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) DevOps
2 21 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (30.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (30.61%) Task Automation
5 14 (28.57%) Agile
5 14 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 14 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (26.53%) CI/CD
7 12 (24.49%) Data Integration
7 12 (24.49%) Data Modelling
8 10 (20.41%) API Development
8 10 (20.41%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (18.37%) API Integration
9 9 (18.37%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (18.37%) Continuous Deployment
9 9 (18.37%) Project Management
9 9 (18.37%) Secure Coding
9 9 (18.37%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Python
2 18 (36.73%) Bash
3 14 (28.57%) Java
4 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
5 8 (16.33%) SQL
6 3 (6.12%) ActionScript
7 2 (4.08%) C#
8 1 (2.04%) Go
8 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.04%) Perl
8 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) GDPR
2 4 (8.16%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Docker
2 7 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) ACF2
3 1 (2.04%) IAG
3 1 (2.04%) RACF
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Terraform
2 15 (30.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.37%) Ansible
3 9 (18.37%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (18.37%) Grafana
3 9 (18.37%) Kibana
3 9 (18.37%) logstash
3 9 (18.37%) Progress Chef
3 9 (18.37%) Prometheus
3 9 (18.37%) Puppet
4 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.04%) SCCM
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.49%) Google
3 9 (18.37%) Splunk
4 3 (6.12%) F5
5 1 (2.04%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow