Azure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,151 3,665 4,234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.42% 15.35% 13.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.24% 46.13% 42.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,596 2,782 3,221
10th Percentile £300 £350 £319
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 64 39
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.73 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.61 £21.31 £27.25
Median hourly rate £48.09 £59.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% +26.11% +2.77%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £55.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -39.13% +6.48% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,346 7,945 9,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.90% 33.26% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,794 5,883 7,318
10th Percentile £213 £250 £206
25th Percentile £369 £410 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 231 286
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 -4 589 £550 -2.22% 493
North of England -6 503 £500 -4.76% 640
South West -3 361 £500 -9.09% 341
Midlands -5 309 £525 +6.33% 474
North West -9 285 £492 -1.55% 356
Scotland 0 232 £460 -8.00% 173
West Midlands -5 226 £550 +5.26% 280
Yorkshire 0 191 £500 -9.09% 217
East of England -27 87 £475 +1.33% 188
East Midlands -3 81 £463 +2.78% 193
Wales +4 76 £504 +0.75% 100
North East 0 33 £533 -11.25% 72
Northern Ireland +8 21 £563 +32.35% 54
Isle of Man 0 5 £388 +96.20% 3
Azure
UK

Azure
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
1 171 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 135 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (4.00%) Confluence
4 36 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
5 25 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.74%) Apache
7 15 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.65%) CMS
9 13 (0.60%) IIS
10 8 (0.37%) SAS
10 8 (0.37%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.19%) nginx
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) WordPress
14 2 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 66 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.37%) Sketch
5 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.37%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.23%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.093%) Maximo
9 2 (0.093%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.093%) SAP IS-U
9 2 (0.093%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 490 (22.78%) AWS
2 407 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
3 337 (15.67%) Microsoft 365
4 268 (12.46%) Power Platform
5 236 (10.97%) Entra ID
6 148 (6.88%) GCP
7 141 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 98 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
9 89 (4.14%) Serverless
10 81 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
11 76 (3.53%) SaaS
12 75 (3.49%) PaaS
13 70 (3.25%) GitHub
14 68 (3.16%) IaaS
15 67 (3.11%) Azure Functions
16 60 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
16 60 (2.79%) Power Automate
17 57 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 53 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
18 53 (2.46%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 207 (9.62%) Firewall
2 122 (5.67%) DNS
3 84 (3.91%) VPN
4 59 (2.74%) DHCP
5 56 (2.60%) SAN
5 56 (2.60%) WAN
6 54 (2.51%) SSL
7 53 (2.46%) Network Security
8 51 (2.37%) LAN
9 48 (2.23%) BGP
10 37 (1.72%) TCP/IP
11 19 (0.88%) Wireless
12 18 (0.84%) OSPF
12 18 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.70%) VLAN
14 13 (0.60%) Intranet
14 13 (0.60%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (0.46%) MPLS
15 10 (0.46%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (8.60%) Power BI
2 163 (7.58%) SQL Server
3 86 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (2.93%) Data Lake
5 61 (2.84%) Relational Database
6 58 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 58 (2.70%) MySQL
7 55 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 47 (2.19%) NoSQL
9 42 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 35 (1.63%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.35%) Tableau
12 27 (1.26%) Big Data
13 22 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 14 (0.65%) Redis
17 13 (0.60%) GIS
18 11 (0.51%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 165 (7.67%) JIRA
2 115 (5.35%) Git
3 65 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.65%) Selenium
5 52 (2.42%) GitLab
6 32 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 21 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.79%) Postman
10 14 (0.65%) NUnit
11 13 (0.60%) Artifactory
12 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.56%) Maven
12 12 (0.56%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.51%) Subversion
14 9 (0.42%) Hudson
14 9 (0.42%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 560 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 232 (10.79%) Finance
3 197 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 54 (2.51%) Banking
6 46 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 44 (2.05%) Retail
8 41 (1.91%) Legal
9 32 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.39%) Marketing
11 29 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (1.30%) Law
13 27 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.70%) Electronics
16 11 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.46%) Local Government
17 10 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 341 (15.85%) Architect
2 326 (15.16%) Developer
3 180 (8.37%) Analyst
4 175 (8.14%) Senior
5 148 (6.88%) Azure Engineer
6 133 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 120 (5.58%) Lead
8 110 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
9 97 (4.51%) Data Engineer
10 95 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 77 (3.58%) Support Engineer
12 73 (3.39%) Consultant
12 73 (3.39%) Project Manager
13 67 (3.11%) .NET Developer
14 59 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
15 55 (2.56%) Administrator
15 55 (2.56%) Azure Architect
15 55 (2.56%) Azure Developer
16 47 (2.19%) Technical Architect
17 45 (2.09%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (9.53%) .NET
2 93 (4.32%) React
3 70 (3.25%) Web Services
4 65 (3.02%) AngularJS
5 54 (2.51%) REST
6 48 (2.23%) ARM Templates
7 47 (2.19%) CSS
8 45 (2.09%) HTML
9 41 (1.91%) RESTful
10 40 (1.86%) .NET Core
10 40 (1.86%) XML
11 38 (1.77%) .NET Framework
11 38 (1.77%) JSON
12 31 (1.44%) Node.js
13 30 (1.39%) Kafka
14 29 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
14 29 (1.35%) YAML
15 28 (1.30%) Spring
16 25 (1.16%) SailPoint
17 24 (1.12%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.18%) PKI
2 87 (4.04%) Public Cloud
3 83 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.46%) Private Cloud
6 46 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 33 (1.53%) NHS
10 30 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 28 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 27 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.21%) Client/Server
13 26 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.07%) Replication
15 21 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
16 17 (0.79%) Clustering
17 15 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 432 (20.08%) Windows
2 212 (9.86%) Linux
3 189 (8.79%) Windows Server
4 113 (5.25%) Windows 10
5 69 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 42 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 40 (1.86%) Unix
9 38 (1.77%) Apple iOS
10 35 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (1.44%) Android
11 31 (1.44%) Mac OS
12 18 (0.84%) VMS
13 16 (0.74%) Windows XP
14 10 (0.46%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.28%) AIX
16 6 (0.28%) Solaris
16 6 (0.28%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (32.50%) DevOps
2 505 (23.48%) Agile
3 303 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
4 261 (12.13%) CI/CD
5 245 (11.39%) Migration
6 202 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
7 176 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 173 (8.04%) Analytics
8 173 (8.04%) ITIL
9 157 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 138 (6.42%) Project Management
11 129 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
11 129 (6.00%) Scrum
11 129 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 118 (5.49%) Test Automation
13 109 (5.07%) Data Modelling
14 105 (4.88%) ETL
14 105 (4.88%) Microservices
15 104 (4.83%) Service Management
16 102 (4.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 332 (15.43%) SQL
2 269 (12.51%) Python
3 251 (11.67%) PowerShell
4 219 (10.18%) C#
5 116 (5.39%) Java
6 111 (5.16%) JavaScript
7 62 (2.88%) Bash
8 49 (2.28%) TypeScript
9 43 (2.00%) C
10 42 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.77%) Bicep
12 34 (1.58%) VBScript
13 33 (1.53%) PHP
14 29 (1.35%) Scala
15 21 (0.98%) VB
16 20 (0.93%) C++
17 17 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.74%) Perl
18 16 (0.74%) PL/SQL
19 15 (0.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 454 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 300 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 239 (11.11%) Degree
4 212 (9.86%) DV Cleared
5 77 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.63%) CCNA
10 30 (1.39%) CCNP
11 27 (1.26%) CISSP
12 25 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 21 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (0.74%) MCSE
16 14 (0.65%) CISM
16 14 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.63%) QA
2 39 (1.81%) Government Security Classifications
3 35 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.07%) SLA
6 21 (0.98%) NIST
7 16 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.74%) GDPR
7 16 (0.74%) NCSC
8 14 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 13 (0.60%) PMO
10 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.14%) COBIT
11 3 (0.14%) GRC
11 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.14%) WCAG
12 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 425 (19.76%) Active Directory
2 139 (6.46%) Docker
3 121 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 78 (3.63%) Hyper-V
5 53 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.02%) vSphere
9 12 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.42%) XenApp
10 9 (0.42%) XenDesktop
11 8 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.23%) NFS
14 4 (0.19%) GPFS
15 3 (0.14%) HDFS
15 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 198 (9.21%) Terraform
2 190 (8.83%) Kubernetes
3 150 (6.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 112 (5.21%) Ansible
5 95 (4.42%) SCCM
6 68 (3.16%) SCOM
7 55 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (1.86%) Grafana
9 39 (1.81%) WSUS
10 38 (1.77%) Prometheus
11 32 (1.49%) vCenter Server
12 30 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 23 (1.07%) Puppet
14 21 (0.98%) Progress Chef
15 18 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
16 15 (0.70%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.65%) Argo
17 14 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
18 12 (0.56%) Istio
18 12 (0.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 711 (33.05%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.11%) VMware
3 113 (5.25%) Oracle
4 98 (4.56%) Databricks
5 70 (3.25%) Cisco
6 59 (2.74%) Atlassian
7 53 (2.46%) Google
8 52 (2.42%) Citrix
9 43 (2.00%) SAP
10 40 (1.86%) Veeam
11 38 (1.77%) Palo Alto
12 36 (1.67%) Splunk
13 32 (1.49%) ServiceNow
14 31 (1.44%) F5
15 26 (1.21%) Red Hat
16 25 (1.16%) CyberArk
16 25 (1.16%) HP
17 24 (1.12%) Dell
18 21 (0.98%) EMC
19 20 (0.93%) Okta