Azure Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 584 834 1,063
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.68% 14.82% 13.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.44% 49.38% 43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 648 833
10th Percentile £375 £400 £349
25th Percentile £456 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £613
90th Percentile £675 £750 £688
England median daily rate £545 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 9
10th Percentile £17.80 £19.06 £38.67
25th Percentile £23.52 £55.31 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £72.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.90% +35.51% +87.72%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £69.93
England median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +26.32% -8.21%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,314 1,689 2,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.02% 30.02% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 1,234 1,788
10th Percentile £250 £251 £205
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 54 59
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.39 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.15 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +9.98% -4.32%
75th Percentile £54.75 £66.75 £30.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £56.63
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley -2 335 £575 +2.95% 174
Berkshire -1 268 £600 +1.69% 77
Hampshire -12 104 £575 +4.55% 132
Surrey -6 59 £500 -9.09% 81
Buckinghamshire -3 45 £469 -10.71% 61
West Sussex +7 37 £475 -31.95% 20
Kent +1 25 £500 -13.04% 45
Oxfordshire -2 22 £450 - 36
East Sussex -4 11 £575 -17.86% 31
Sussex -1 5 £550 -8.33% 2
Home Counties +6 4 £538 -17.31%
Middlesex - 4 £275 - 1
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 31 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.74%) Confluence
3 12 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.51%) Apache
4 3 (0.51%) SAS
5 2 (0.34%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Kentico
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Jadu
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 14 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (1.37%) Teamcenter
5 6 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.17%) Relativity
7 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 148 (25.34%) AWS
2 140 (23.97%) Azure DevOps
3 71 (12.16%) Entra ID
4 63 (10.79%) Power Platform
5 53 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (8.90%) Azure Monitor
7 49 (8.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (6.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 38 (6.51%) Serverless
9 35 (5.99%) Azure Functions
10 25 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (4.28%) PaaS
11 24 (4.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (3.94%) GCP
13 21 (3.60%) IaaS
14 19 (3.25%) OCI
14 19 (3.25%) PowerApps
14 19 (3.25%) SaaS
15 17 (2.91%) Azure Storage
15 17 (2.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.93%) Firewall
2 47 (8.05%) SSL
3 46 (7.88%) DNS
4 39 (6.68%) DHCP
5 24 (4.11%) SAN
6 18 (3.08%) Network Security
7 12 (2.05%) VPN
8 9 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.20%) WAN
10 5 (0.86%) LAN
10 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.68%) BGP
11 4 (0.68%) Wireless
12 3 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.51%) IOS XR
12 3 (0.51%) MPLS
12 3 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.22%) Power BI
2 37 (6.34%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.54%) MySQL
10 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.03%) Tableau
12 5 (0.86%) Redis
12 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.68%) Big Data
13 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
13 4 (0.68%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (8.05%) Git
2 39 (6.68%) JIRA
3 32 (5.48%) Selenium
4 20 (3.42%) GitLab
4 20 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.40%) SonarQube
6 13 (2.23%) Cucumber
6 13 (2.23%) Visual Studio
7 12 (2.05%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.03%) JMeter
9 6 (1.03%) Postman
9 6 (1.03%) Robot Framework
9 6 (1.03%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.34%) NUnit
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 143 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (8.90%) Finance
4 33 (5.65%) Public Sector
5 13 (2.23%) Law
6 12 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.54%) Police
9 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.20%) Legal
9 7 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.03%) Marketing
11 5 (0.86%) Banking
11 5 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.68%) Automotive
12 4 (0.68%) Retail
13 3 (0.51%) Back Office
13 3 (0.51%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 101 (17.29%) Developer
2 96 (16.44%) Architect
3 66 (11.30%) Senior
4 42 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 39 (6.68%) Analyst
6 37 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
6 37 (6.34%) Lead
7 34 (5.82%) Azure Developer
8 33 (5.65%) Active Directory Support
9 29 (4.97%) Azure Specialist
10 28 (4.79%) Full Stack Developer
11 27 (4.62%) Active Directory Specialist
11 27 (4.62%) Support Specialist
12 24 (4.11%) Consultant
13 21 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (3.60%) Support Engineer
14 19 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.08%) Project Manager
16 17 (2.91%) Administrator
17 16 (2.74%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.73%) .NET
2 48 (8.22%) Web Services
3 38 (6.51%) ARM Templates
4 30 (5.14%) React
5 27 (4.62%) REST
6 20 (3.42%) AngularJS
7 16 (2.74%) XML
8 14 (2.40%) .NET Core
8 14 (2.40%) CSS
8 14 (2.40%) JSON
8 14 (2.40%) Node.js
8 14 (2.40%) RESTful
9 13 (2.23%) Itk
9 13 (2.23%) Java EE
10 12 (2.05%) HTML
11 10 (1.71%) .NET Framework
12 9 (1.54%) Django
13 8 (1.37%) OpenID
13 8 (1.37%) YAML
14 7 (1.20%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.96%) PKI
2 28 (4.79%) Data Centre
2 28 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.60%) Public Cloud
5 15 (2.57%) Client/Server
6 12 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.20%) Smart Meter
9 4 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.68%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.51%) Replication
11 2 (0.34%) Clustering
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.34%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.34%) IoT
11 2 (0.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 120 (20.55%) Windows
2 102 (17.47%) Linux
3 80 (13.70%) Windows Server
4 42 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (7.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (5.48%) Windows 10
7 23 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.40%) Windows XP
10 12 (2.05%) Unix
11 6 (1.03%) Solaris
12 4 (0.68%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.51%) VMS
13 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.34%) Android
14 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (42.81%) DevOps
2 144 (24.66%) Agile
3 91 (15.58%) CI/CD
4 89 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (10.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (10.62%) Analytics
7 53 (9.08%) Test Automation
8 48 (8.22%) Migration
9 47 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
9 47 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 46 (7.88%) Cryptography
11 45 (7.71%) Microservices
12 44 (7.53%) Key Management
13 41 (7.02%) ITIL
14 36 (6.16%) Project Management
15 35 (5.99%) Containerisation
15 35 (5.99%) Full Stack Development
16 33 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (5.65%) Scrum
16 33 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (15.24%) Python
2 83 (14.21%) SQL
3 82 (14.04%) PowerShell
4 76 (13.01%) C#
5 34 (5.82%) Java
6 32 (5.48%) VBScript
7 27 (4.62%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.60%) VB
9 19 (3.25%) Bicep
9 19 (3.25%) C
10 18 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 13 (2.23%) Bash
12 10 (1.71%) C++
13 9 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.03%) Go
14 6 (1.03%) PHP
15 5 (0.86%) Scala
15 5 (0.86%) X++
16 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 180 (30.82%) Security Cleared
2 125 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 119 (20.38%) Degree
4 105 (17.98%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 18 (3.08%) CCNP
8 17 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 16 (2.74%) CCNA
9 16 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.68%) CISSP
11 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.68%) MCSE
11 4 (0.68%) PMP
12 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.34%) CBAP
12 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.74%) QA
2 9 (1.54%) GDPR
3 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.20%) SLA
4 6 (1.03%) NIST
4 6 (1.03%) PMO
5 5 (0.86%) NCSC
6 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.51%) GxP
6 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) COBIT
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 161 (27.57%) Active Directory
2 56 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (6.85%) Docker
4 27 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (3.94%) Hyper-V
6 18 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (2.23%) vSphere
9 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.34%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 49 (8.39%) Terraform
3 44 (7.53%) SCCM
4 38 (6.51%) Ansible
4 38 (6.51%) WSUS
5 33 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (5.48%) SCOM
7 19 (3.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (2.91%) vCenter Server
9 15 (2.57%) NetBackup
10 14 (2.40%) EMC NetWorker
11 12 (2.05%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (2.05%) Podman
12 11 (1.88%) Istio
13 7 (1.20%) Grafana
13 7 (1.20%) Rancher
14 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.51%) Prometheus
16 3 (0.51%) SELinux
Vendors
1 169 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 79 (13.53%) VMware
3 57 (9.76%) Oracle
4 27 (4.62%) Cisco
5 20 (3.42%) Palo Alto
6 16 (2.74%) Databricks
6 16 (2.74%) Dell
6 16 (2.74%) EMC
6 16 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.57%) Google
7 15 (2.57%) Symantec
7 15 (2.57%) Veeam
8 14 (2.40%) 3PAR
8 14 (2.40%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (2.40%) HP
8 14 (2.40%) Juniper
9 13 (2.23%) SAP
10 8 (1.37%) Citrix
10 8 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.20%) Ab Initio