Azure Cosmos DB Contracts

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Cosmos DB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 480 478
Rank change year-on-year +82 -2 -101
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 195 247 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.42% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 1.13% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 173 327
10th Percentile £400 £444 £406
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £651 £700 £638
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £513 £505
% change year-on-year +20.98% +1.49% +2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - £51.25 £25.44
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year - +60.31% -49.62%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £39.94
90th Percentile - - £43.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Cosmos DB 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 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
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 £630 £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 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +79 183 £600 +4.35% 51
London +84 122 £545 -8.40% 25
Work from Home +95 77 £563 -0.22% 35
UK excluding London +56 57 £620 +20.98% 26
South East +28 38 £625 -3.85% 6
Midlands +27 9 £550 +17.02% 7
West Midlands +27 8 £575 +30.68% 4
North West +18 4 £600 +11.63% 6
North of England +14 4 £600 +26.32% 7
East of England +9 2 £550 +15.79% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Scotland +39 1 - - 2
South West +21 1 - -
East Midlands +19 1 £310 -38.00% 3

Azure Cosmos DB
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 15 (7.69%) CMS
2 9 (4.62%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (3.59%) Confluence
4 6 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) Azure
2 93 (47.69%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (36.92%) Azure Monitor
4 70 (35.90%) Azure Service Bus
5 54 (27.69%) Serverless
6 52 (26.67%) Entra ID
7 48 (24.62%) Azure Functions
8 47 (24.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (12.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (12.31%) Azure Storage
10 24 (12.31%) PaaS
11 21 (10.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (9.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (9.74%) Power Platform
13 15 (7.69%) Azure API Management
14 14 (7.18%) Azure Pipelines
15 13 (6.67%) Azure App Service
16 12 (6.15%) AWS
17 10 (5.13%) Azure Cognitive Search
18 9 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.62%) Firewall
2 4 (2.05%) VPN
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 42 (21.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 24 (12.31%) NoSQL
4 21 (10.77%) MongoDB
5 19 (9.74%) Power BI
6 10 (5.13%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.59%) Big Data
8 6 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.05%) Redis
10 4 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.54%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.03%) MySQL
12 2 (1.03%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 64 (32.82%) Git
2 10 (5.13%) Selenium
3 9 (4.62%) Postman
4 7 (3.59%) JIRA
5 5 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.05%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.05%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.54%) NUnit
7 3 (1.54%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.03%) Moq
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) Gradle
9 1 (0.51%) Hudson
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) Log4Net
9 1 (0.51%) Maven
9 1 (0.51%) MLflow
9 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (17.44%) Finance
2 27 (13.85%) Public Sector
3 26 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.77%) Social Skills
5 20 (10.26%) Back Office
6 9 (4.62%) Banking
7 8 (4.10%) Marketing
8 6 (3.08%) Front Office
9 5 (2.56%) German Language
9 5 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.05%) Local Government
11 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Retail
12 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 104 (53.33%) Developer
2 50 (25.64%) Senior
3 37 (18.97%) Senior Developer
4 35 (17.95%) Azure Developer
5 29 (14.87%) Lead
6 27 (13.85%) Full Stack Developer
7 26 (13.33%) Backend Developer
8 18 (9.23%) Architect
8 18 (9.23%) Data Engineer
9 16 (8.21%) Senior Backend Developer
10 15 (7.69%) .NET Developer
10 15 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 14 (7.18%) Python Developer
12 13 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (6.67%) C# Developer
13 11 (5.64%) Azure Architect
13 11 (5.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 10 (5.13%) Software Engineer
15 9 (4.62%) Designer
15 9 (4.62%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (47.69%) .NET
2 75 (38.46%) .NET Core
3 42 (21.54%) React
4 25 (12.82%) CSS
5 23 (11.79%) HTML
6 22 (11.28%) AngularJS
7 20 (10.26%) XML
8 19 (9.74%) ASP.NET
9 16 (8.21%) ASP.NET MVC
9 16 (8.21%) jQuery
9 16 (8.21%) Node.js
10 13 (6.67%) Swagger
11 11 (5.64%) YAML
12 10 (5.13%) Blazor
12 10 (5.13%) PySpark
12 10 (5.13%) Web Services
13 9 (4.62%) .NET Framework
14 7 (3.59%) REST
15 5 (2.56%) JSON
15 5 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.05%) Derivative
5 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.51%) Clustering
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.51%) Replication
8 1 (0.51%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.51%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (64.10%) DevOps
2 116 (59.49%) Agile
3 84 (43.08%) CI/CD
4 60 (30.77%) API Management
5 51 (26.15%) TDD
6 45 (23.08%) Microservices
7 38 (19.49%) Full Stack Development
8 37 (18.97%) OO
9 36 (18.46%) OOD
10 34 (17.44%) Software Engineering
11 33 (16.92%) Clean Code
12 30 (15.38%) SDLC
13 27 (13.85%) Front End Development
14 26 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (12.31%) Analytics
15 24 (12.31%) Scrum
16 20 (10.26%) MVC
17 19 (9.74%) API Design
17 19 (9.74%) B2C
17 19 (9.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 98 (50.26%) C#
2 72 (36.92%) SQL
3 62 (31.79%) Python
4 59 (30.26%) Bicep
5 38 (19.49%) JavaScript
6 26 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 23 (11.79%) TypeScript
8 14 (7.18%) Java
9 12 (6.15%) Scala
9 12 (6.15%) T-SQL
10 10 (5.13%) Go
10 10 (5.13%) PL/SQL
11 9 (4.62%) C++
12 5 (2.56%) PHP
13 3 (1.54%) C
13 3 (1.54%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.51%) Bash
14 1 (0.51%) Groovy
14 1 (0.51%) R
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (6.67%) Degree
2 10 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.03%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.18%) WCAG
3 3 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.03%) QA
5 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.51%) GxP
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (44.10%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (4.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.13%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 72 (36.92%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.31%) Databricks
3 11 (5.64%) Oracle
4 9 (4.62%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.03%) Informatica
6 1 (0.51%) Google
6 1 (0.51%) New Relic
6 1 (0.51%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.51%) Talend