Azure Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 10 28 49
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 -31
Contract jobs citing Azure 24 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 18.46% 0.75% 5.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.06% 16.67% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £453 - £406
25th Percentile £454 £511 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £523 £433
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +20.81% -16.83%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £509
90th Percentile £609 - £531
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -1.73%

All Cloud Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 51 6 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 39.23% 4.48% 50.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 4 72
10th Percentile £410 - £420
25th Percentile £455 £117 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £284 £539
Median % change year-on-year +79.89% -47.40% +3.16%
75th Percentile £538 £471 £540
90th Percentile £552 £509 £554
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Shropshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Shropshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Shropshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Telford +18 22 £524 +0.29% 8
Azure
West Midlands

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Power Platform
1 14 (58.33%) PowerApps
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Lead
1 7 (29.17%) Technical Leader
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Power Platform Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Engagement Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Power Apps Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Engagement Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) DevOps
2 18 (75.00%) Agile
3 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (62.50%) Process Improvement
5 12 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 12 (50.00%) Test Strategy
6 11 (45.83%) Configuration Management
6 11 (45.83%) OO
6 11 (45.83%) Problem Management
7 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
8 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery
9 4 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 3 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
11 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
11 2 (8.33%) Scrum
12 1 (4.17%) Migration
12 1 (4.17%) Project Management
12 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Ansible
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Opsview
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) PagerDuty
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks