Azure Batch Contracts

Microsoft Azure Batch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure Batch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Batch 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 517 574 672
Rank change year-on-year +57 +98 +144
Contract jobs citing Azure Batch 3 8 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.018% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.027% 0.057% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 40
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £544
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +19.54% -8.42%
75th Percentile £619 - £575
90th Percentile £668 - £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £650 £575
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Batch 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure Batch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Batch in the UK

Azure Batch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Batch in the UK

Azure Batch
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Batch in the UK

Azure Batch
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Batch within the UK 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
England +52 3 £525 -19.23% 2
Work from Home +39 3 £525 -19.23%
London +34 2 £525 - 2
UK excluding London +63 1 £700 +7.69% 1
East Midlands - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £700 -

Azure Batch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft