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 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 510 609 675
Rank change year-on-year +99 +66 -143
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 81 110 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 76 125
10th Percentile £387 £406 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +3.26% +4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £678 £675
90th Percentile £738 £806 £840
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £588 £513
% change year-on-year +2.98% +14.63% +9.20%

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 13,935 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 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 4 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 10 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 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 +92 77 £605 +0.83% 22
London +97 43 £594 -8.65% 7
Work from Home +128 36 £605 +7.56% 18
UK excluding London +55 28 £605 +2.98% 14
South East +30 17 £605 -10.37% 3
South West +27 8 £519 -22.43% 2
North West +20 2 £513 +17.82%
North of England +12 2 £513 -4.65% 1
Midlands +24 1 £388 -32.61% 4
West Midlands +20 1 £388 -32.61%

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 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (17.28%) SharePoint
3 9 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.23%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Drupal
4 1 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (46.91%) Entra ID
3 27 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 25 (30.86%) Serverless
5 24 (29.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 24 (29.63%) Azure Functions
5 24 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (25.93%) Power Platform
7 20 (24.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 18 (22.22%) Azure API Management
8 18 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (20.99%) Power Automate
10 16 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (18.52%) PaaS
12 12 (14.81%) AWS
13 9 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (8.64%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (8.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.69%) DHCP
1 20 (24.69%) DNS
1 20 (24.69%) Firewall
2 7 (8.64%) Intranet
3 3 (3.70%) VPN
4 1 (1.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (40.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.58%) Data Lake
4 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.64%) OLTP
7 6 (7.41%) Big Data
8 5 (6.17%) Power BI
8 5 (6.17%) Redis
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.23%) Metadata
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Git
2 9 (11.11%) Postman
3 7 (8.64%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (6.17%) GitLab
5 4 (4.94%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.23%) Maven
6 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.41%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Military
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Legal
6 2 (2.47%) Retail
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (44.44%) Developer
2 16 (19.75%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (18.52%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (17.28%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (17.28%) Support Specialist
5 9 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (11.11%) SharePoint Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Python Developer
7 7 (8.64%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Lead
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Applications Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Python Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.63%) ARM Templates
2 16 (19.75%) .NET
3 15 (18.52%) Web Services
4 10 (12.35%) .NET Core
5 9 (11.11%) SPFx
5 9 (11.11%) Swagger
6 8 (9.88%) Blazor
7 7 (8.64%) JSON
8 6 (7.41%) XML
9 4 (4.94%) PySpark
9 4 (4.94%) pytest
9 4 (4.94%) YAML
10 2 (2.47%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.47%) Kafka
10 2 (2.47%) RESTful
11 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.23%) Django
11 1 (1.23%) Entity Framework
11 1 (1.23%) JDBC
11 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.99%) PKI
1 17 (20.99%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.88%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
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
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.23%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 36 (44.44%) Windows
2 23 (28.40%) Linux
3 22 (27.16%) Windows Server
4 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.94%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.47%) Unix
9 1 (1.23%) CentOS
9 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (61.73%) Agile
2 45 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 32 (39.51%) DevOps
4 27 (33.33%) Analytics
5 23 (28.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (24.69%) API Management
7 19 (23.46%) Microservices
7 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
8 17 (20.99%) Identity Management
8 17 (20.99%) ITIL
8 17 (20.99%) Log Analytics
8 17 (20.99%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 17 (20.99%) Privileged Identity Management
8 17 (20.99%) RBAC
8 17 (20.99%) Release Management
8 17 (20.99%) Service Management
8 17 (20.99%) TDD
9 15 (18.52%) Migration
10 11 (13.58%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 39 (48.15%) C#
2 34 (41.98%) SQL
3 29 (35.80%) PowerShell
4 28 (34.57%) Python
5 19 (23.46%) Bicep
6 18 (22.22%) JavaScript
7 17 (20.99%) VB
7 17 (20.99%) VBScript
8 9 (11.11%) C++
8 9 (11.11%) Go
8 9 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 9 (11.11%) T-SQL
9 6 (7.41%) Java
10 3 (3.70%) Bash
10 3 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (34.57%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.10%) SC Cleared
3 21 (25.93%) Degree
4 17 (20.99%) DV Cleared
4 17 (20.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (7.41%) 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 40 (49.38%) Active Directory
2 26 (32.10%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (20.99%) 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 20 (24.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (20.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (20.99%) SCCM
3 17 (20.99%) SCOM
3 17 (20.99%) WSUS
4 14 (17.28%) Terraform
5 4 (4.94%) Grafana
5 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.23%) yum
Vendors
1 46 (56.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.35%) Oracle
3 9 (11.11%) MuleSoft
4 7 (8.64%) 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