Azure Storage Contracts

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 584 684
Rank change year-on-year +96 +100 -161
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 81 111 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 0.54% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 70 108
10th Percentile £390 £399 £413
25th Percentile £484 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -1.03% +10.23%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £761
90th Percentile £738 £813 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +0.83% +14.29% +11.86%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,865 20,635 33,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.52% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,880 14,925 24,585
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 334 406
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.56
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% +64.49% +0.86%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £66.88 £78.83 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +32.40% +1.27%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 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
England +80 78 £605 +0.83% 46
London +82 47 £575 -11.54% 15
Work from Home +125 39 £605 +0.83% 43
UK excluding London +38 25 £605 +0.83% 37
South East +21 18 £605 -13.57% 11
South West +20 5 £513 -33.87% 5
North of England +24 2 £513 +7.89% 5
North West - 2 £513 -

Azure Storage
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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (23.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (8.64%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.23%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Drupal
4 1 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (48.15%) Entra ID
3 24 (29.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 24 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (28.40%) Azure Functions
4 23 (28.40%) Azure Logic Apps
4 23 (28.40%) Serverless
5 22 (27.16%) Azure Key Vault
6 20 (24.69%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (24.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (23.46%) Azure API Management
7 19 (23.46%) PaaS
8 16 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (19.75%) Power Platform
9 13 (16.05%) Power Automate
10 10 (12.35%) AWS
11 9 (11.11%) Azure App Service
12 7 (8.64%) Azure Batch
12 7 (8.64%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (8.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.16%) DNS
1 22 (27.16%) Firewall
2 21 (25.93%) DHCP
3 6 (7.41%) Intranet
4 5 (6.17%) VPN
5 1 (1.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (38.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 10 (12.35%) Data Lake
4 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (8.64%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.64%) OLTP
6 6 (7.41%) Big Data
7 5 (6.17%) Redis
8 3 (3.70%) Power BI
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Git
2 10 (12.35%) Postman
3 7 (8.64%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (6.17%) GitLab
5 4 (4.94%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.23%) Maven
6 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Finance
3 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.64%) Banking
5 3 (3.70%) Retail
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Legal
6 2 (2.47%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (39.51%) Developer
2 18 (22.22%) Active Directory Support
3 16 (19.75%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (17.28%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (17.28%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (17.28%) Support Specialist
5 9 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 9 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (8.64%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Lead
7 6 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.41%) Senior Python Developer
7 6 (7.41%) SharePoint Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Active Directory Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Applications Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (6.17%) Consultant
8 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.10%) ARM Templates
2 16 (19.75%) .NET
2 16 (19.75%) Web Services
3 10 (12.35%) .NET Core
3 10 (12.35%) Swagger
4 7 (8.64%) Blazor
4 7 (8.64%) JSON
5 6 (7.41%) SPFx
5 6 (7.41%) XML
6 4 (4.94%) pytest
6 4 (4.94%) YAML
7 3 (3.70%) PySpark
8 2 (2.47%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.47%) Kafka
8 2 (2.47%) RESTful
9 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.23%) Django
9 1 (1.23%) Entity Framework
9 1 (1.23%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.22%) PKI
1 18 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.70%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (46.91%) Windows
2 25 (30.86%) Linux
3 24 (29.63%) Windows Server
4 19 (23.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.94%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (4.94%) VMS
7 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.47%) Unix
9 1 (1.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (62.96%) Agile
2 47 (58.02%) CI/CD
3 34 (41.98%) DevOps
4 27 (33.33%) Analytics
5 25 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (25.93%) API Management
7 19 (23.46%) Migration
7 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
7 19 (23.46%) TDD
8 18 (22.22%) Identity Management
8 18 (22.22%) ITIL
8 18 (22.22%) Log Analytics
8 18 (22.22%) Microservices
8 18 (22.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 18 (22.22%) Privileged Identity Management
8 18 (22.22%) RBAC
8 18 (22.22%) Release Management
8 18 (22.22%) Service Management
9 11 (13.58%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (12.35%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) C#
2 36 (44.44%) SQL
3 28 (34.57%) PowerShell
4 24 (29.63%) Python
5 21 (25.93%) Bicep
6 18 (22.22%) VB
6 18 (22.22%) VBScript
7 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
8 7 (8.64%) C++
8 7 (8.64%) Go
8 7 (8.64%) PL/SQL
8 7 (8.64%) T-SQL
9 6 (7.41%) Java
10 3 (3.70%) Bash
11 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 24 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 23 (28.40%) Degree
4 18 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 18 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) SLA
2 2 (2.47%) QA
System Software
1 41 (50.62%) Active Directory
2 27 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (7.41%) Docker
5 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (43.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (22.22%) SCCM
3 18 (22.22%) SCOM
3 18 (22.22%) WSUS
4 14 (17.28%) Terraform
5 4 (4.94%) Grafana
5 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.23%) yum
Vendors
1 53 (65.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.88%) Oracle
3 7 (8.64%) MuleSoft
4 6 (7.41%) Databricks
5 5 (6.17%) VMware
6 3 (3.70%) CA
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.23%) Sybase