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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,133 3,610 4,164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.42% 15.43% 13.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.31% 46.37% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,588 2,730 3,156
10th Percentile £309 £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 £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 62 38
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.75 £16.78
25th Percentile £22.61 £24.62 £26.13
Median hourly rate £48.09 £60.00 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% +29.53% +0.22%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -41.67% +11.63% +7.50%

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 5,291 7,786 9,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.84% 33.27% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,756 5,750 7,193
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £406 £386
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 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 231 293
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £31.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -4 584 £550 -1.52% 478
North of England -6 501 £500 -4.76% 613
South West -3 357 £500 -9.09% 315
Midlands -7 296 £550 +14.58% 468
North West -8 283 £490 -2.00% 335
Scotland +2 248 £460 -8.00% 147
West Midlands -6 218 £550 +4.76% 276
Yorkshire 0 192 £500 -9.09% 210
East of England -27 82 £488 +2.63% 173
East Midlands -5 76 £463 +2.78% 191
Wales +4 71 £500 -4.76% 85
North East -1 32 £533 -11.25% 71
Northern Ireland +6 21 £563 +32.35% 53
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
1 166 (7.78%) SharePoint
2 130 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 89 (4.17%) Confluence
4 36 (1.69%) SharePoint Server
5 28 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.89%) Apache
7 15 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.61%) CMS
8 13 (0.61%) IIS
9 8 (0.38%) SAS
10 7 (0.33%) 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 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 56 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.47%) Sketch
4 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.38%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.23%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.094%) Maximo
8 2 (0.094%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.094%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.094%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.047%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 494 (23.16%) AWS
2 413 (19.36%) Azure DevOps
3 325 (15.24%) Microsoft 365
4 270 (12.66%) Power Platform
5 235 (11.02%) Entra ID
6 152 (7.13%) GCP
7 147 (6.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 100 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (4.31%) Serverless
10 80 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
11 79 (3.70%) SaaS
12 74 (3.47%) GitHub
12 74 (3.47%) PaaS
13 69 (3.23%) Azure Functions
14 67 (3.14%) IaaS
15 60 (2.81%) Power Automate
16 58 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 58 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
17 55 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 53 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 202 (9.47%) Firewall
2 119 (5.58%) DNS
3 83 (3.89%) VPN
4 57 (2.67%) SSL
5 56 (2.63%) DHCP
5 56 (2.63%) SAN
6 55 (2.58%) WAN
7 49 (2.30%) LAN
7 49 (2.30%) Network Security
8 48 (2.25%) BGP
9 38 (1.78%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.89%) Wireless
11 18 (0.84%) OSPF
11 18 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.70%) VLAN
13 14 (0.66%) HTTP
14 13 (0.61%) Wireshark
15 11 (0.52%) Intranet
16 10 (0.47%) NetScaler
17 9 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (8.81%) Power BI
2 161 (7.55%) SQL Server
3 86 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (3.09%) Data Lake
5 65 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 59 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (2.67%) MySQL
8 55 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 47 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
11 37 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 29 (1.36%) Tableau
13 28 (1.31%) Big Data
14 23 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
15 22 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 21 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (0.80%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 14 (0.66%) Redis
19 13 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
19 13 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 171 (8.02%) JIRA
2 122 (5.72%) Git
3 67 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.81%) Selenium
5 57 (2.67%) GitLab
6 38 (1.78%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 20 (0.94%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.84%) Postman
11 14 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 13 (0.61%) NUnit
13 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.52%) Maven
14 11 (0.52%) Subversion
15 10 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.42%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 558 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 231 (10.83%) Finance
3 193 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 57 (2.67%) Banking
6 45 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 42 (1.97%) Retail
8 37 (1.73%) Legal
9 32 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.41%) Marketing
12 29 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.17%) Law
15 20 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.70%) Electronics
17 10 (0.47%) Local Government
17 10 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 341 (15.99%) Architect
2 329 (15.42%) Developer
3 178 (8.35%) Analyst
4 171 (8.02%) Senior
5 143 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
6 127 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 116 (5.44%) Lead
8 109 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
9 103 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 96 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 76 (3.56%) Project Manager
12 74 (3.47%) Consultant
13 71 (3.33%) Support Engineer
14 67 (3.14%) .NET Developer
15 58 (2.72%) Azure Developer
16 56 (2.63%) Azure Architect
17 55 (2.58%) Cloud Engineer
18 52 (2.44%) Administrator
19 47 (2.20%) Full Stack Developer
20 46 (2.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (9.89%) .NET
2 97 (4.55%) React
3 75 (3.52%) Web Services
4 62 (2.91%) REST
5 59 (2.77%) AngularJS
6 48 (2.25%) ARM Templates
7 47 (2.20%) CSS
8 44 (2.06%) HTML
9 43 (2.02%) RESTful
10 41 (1.92%) .NET Framework
11 40 (1.88%) .NET Core
11 40 (1.88%) XML
12 39 (1.83%) Kafka
13 38 (1.78%) JSON
14 33 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
15 32 (1.50%) Spring
16 30 (1.41%) YAML
17 27 (1.27%) Node.js
18 25 (1.17%) SailPoint
18 25 (1.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 89 (4.17%) PKI
2 86 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 85 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 64 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.48%) Private Cloud
6 44 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 38 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 33 (1.55%) NHS
10 28 (1.31%) Security Posture
11 26 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 25 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.17%) Management Information System
13 23 (1.08%) Replication
14 21 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
15 18 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 422 (19.78%) Windows
2 221 (10.36%) Linux
3 183 (8.58%) Windows Server
4 110 (5.16%) Windows 10
5 67 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 44 (2.06%) Unix
8 41 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 40 (1.88%) Apple iOS
10 35 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 33 (1.55%) Android
12 31 (1.45%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.84%) VMS
14 16 (0.75%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.47%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
17 7 (0.33%) Solaris
18 6 (0.28%) AIX
18 6 (0.28%) Windows 7
18 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (33.24%) DevOps
2 503 (23.58%) Agile
3 295 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
4 261 (12.24%) CI/CD
5 241 (11.30%) Migration
6 205 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
7 173 (8.11%) ITIL
8 172 (8.06%) Analytics
9 170 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 153 (7.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 137 (6.42%) Project Management
12 131 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 130 (6.09%) Scrum
14 126 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
15 124 (5.81%) Test Automation
16 111 (5.20%) Microservices
17 109 (5.11%) Data Modelling
18 108 (5.06%) ETL
19 103 (4.83%) SDLC
20 102 (4.78%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 336 (15.75%) SQL
2 277 (12.99%) Python
3 249 (11.67%) PowerShell
4 218 (10.22%) C#
5 124 (5.81%) Java
6 108 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 64 (3.00%) Bash
8 48 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 44 (2.06%) C
10 42 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.78%) Bicep
12 33 (1.55%) VBScript
13 30 (1.41%) Scala
14 27 (1.27%) PHP
15 24 (1.13%) VB
16 20 (0.94%) C++
17 17 (0.80%) Go
18 16 (0.75%) Perl
19 14 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 14 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 448 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 292 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 235 (11.02%) Degree
4 211 (9.89%) DV Cleared
5 73 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.64%) CCNA
9 30 (1.41%) CCNP
10 25 (1.17%) CISSP
11 24 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (0.80%) MCSE
14 15 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.66%) CISM
15 14 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.86%) QA
2 39 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
3 34 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.08%) NIST
5 23 (1.08%) SLA
6 18 (0.84%) GDPR
7 17 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.75%) NCSC
9 14 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
10 13 (0.61%) PMO
11 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.19%) COBIT
14 3 (0.14%) GRC
14 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) WCAG
15 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.094%) GxP
15 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 414 (19.41%) Active Directory
2 154 (7.22%) Docker
3 118 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 76 (3.56%) Hyper-V
5 49 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.03%) vSphere
9 13 (0.61%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.38%) Terminal Services
11 8 (0.38%) XenApp
11 8 (0.38%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.28%) 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
1 201 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 193 (9.05%) Terraform
3 148 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 113 (5.30%) Ansible
5 92 (4.31%) SCCM
6 66 (3.09%) SCOM
7 55 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (2.16%) Grafana
9 41 (1.92%) Prometheus
10 38 (1.78%) WSUS
11 32 (1.50%) vCenter Server
12 29 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 25 (1.17%) Puppet
14 23 (1.08%) Progress Chef
15 20 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
16 15 (0.70%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
18 12 (0.56%) Argo
18 12 (0.56%) Istio
18 12 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 697 (32.68%) Microsoft
2 194 (9.10%) VMware
3 117 (5.49%) Oracle
4 95 (4.45%) Databricks
5 70 (3.28%) Cisco
6 57 (2.67%) Atlassian
7 53 (2.48%) Google
8 48 (2.25%) Citrix
9 43 (2.02%) SAP
10 41 (1.92%) Splunk
11 40 (1.88%) Veeam
12 36 (1.69%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.45%) F5
13 31 (1.45%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.22%) CyberArk
14 26 (1.22%) Red Hat
15 25 (1.17%) HP
16 24 (1.13%) Dell
17 21 (0.98%) EMC
18 18 (0.84%) Informatica