Azure Storage Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 417 473
Rank change year-on-year +57 +56 -74
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 25 39 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.50% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 35 22
10th Percentile £504 £437 -
25th Percentile £603 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £588 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +14.63% +9.70%
75th Percentile £608 £622 £588
90th Percentile - £715 £600
UK median daily rate £605 £594 £588
% change year-on-year +1.89% +1.06% +6.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Storage 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +17 16 £605 -10.37% 3
South West +22 7 £513 -23.36% 5
North West +25 2 £513 +17.82%
North of England +15 2 £513 -4.65% 1
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (64.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (64.00%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (64.00%) Entra ID
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (28.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (28.00%) Power Automate
3 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) DHCP
1 16 (64.00%) DNS
1 16 (64.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
1 2 (8.00%) Selenium
General
1 19 (76.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Military
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (56.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (56.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (56.00%) Support Specialist
3 7 (28.00%) Developer
3 7 (28.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared SharePoint Developer
5 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Support
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) ARM Templates
2 7 (28.00%) SPFx
3 2 (8.00%) pytest
3 2 (8.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (64.00%) PKI
1 16 (64.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 16 (64.00%) Windows Server
2 16 (64.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 16 (64.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (8.00%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) CI/CD
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
1 18 (72.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (68.00%) Agile
3 16 (64.00%) Analytics
3 16 (64.00%) Identity Management
3 16 (64.00%) ITIL
3 16 (64.00%) Log Analytics
3 16 (64.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 16 (64.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 16 (64.00%) RBAC
3 16 (64.00%) Release Management
3 16 (64.00%) Service Management
4 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.00%) Resource Management
7 1 (4.00%) Project Management
7 1 (4.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) C#
2 16 (64.00%) Bicep
2 16 (64.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (64.00%) VB
2 16 (64.00%) VBScript
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (92.00%) SC Cleared
1 23 (92.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) Degree
2 16 (64.00%) DV Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 18 (72.00%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (64.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (64.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (64.00%) SCCM
2 16 (64.00%) SCOM
2 16 (64.00%) WSUS
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Microsoft