Azure Contracts in Suffolk

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 8 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 13 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 17.57% 18.03% 14.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.39% 55.00% 52.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 20
10th Percentile £207 £202 £369
25th Percentile £210 £220 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £278 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -60.36% +45.83%
75th Percentile £375 £547 -
90th Percentile £601 £604 £710
East of England median daily rate £580 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +26.78% -3.68% -

All Cloud Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 20 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 44.59% 32.79% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 36
10th Percentile £171 £176 £213
25th Percentile £184 £199 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £278 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% -60.36% +64.71%
75th Percentile £316 £563 -
90th Percentile £443 £644 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £46.18 £11.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +301.57% -30.30% +6.45%
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Suffolk

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Suffolk

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Suffolk

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Suffolk 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
Leiston -4 6 £220 -
Ipswich -3 4 £751 +30.61% 79
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Desktop Support
2 5 (38.46%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) iPad
1 7 (53.85%) iPhone
1 7 (53.85%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.69%) Reinsurance
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) Antivirus Management
2 7 (53.85%) Customer Service
2 7 (53.85%) Inventory Management
2 7 (53.85%) ITIL
2 7 (53.85%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (53.85%) Time Management
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) Line Management
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Go
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
5 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) logstash
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) McAfee
3 2 (15.38%) Google