The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 September 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills
9,234
25,100
23,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
31.36%
28.85%
22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted
6,078
17,110
16,032
Median daily rate
£500
£500
£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
-
+5.26%
+4.40%
10th Percentile
£313
£300
£305
90th Percentile
£688
£656
£638
UK excluding London median daily rate
£450
£450
£438
% change year-on-year
-
+2.86%
+2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted
192
409
341
Median hourly rate
£32.75
£21.50
£18.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.33%
+19.44%
-10.00%
10th Percentile
£14.37
£13.50
£11.25
90th Percentile
£51.75
£74.75
£64.00
Median hourly rate
£24.00
£21.46
£17.50
% change year-on-year
+11.84%
+22.63%
-6.57%
Azure Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Azure Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure.
Azure Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 28 September 2020.
Azure Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure.
Azure Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 28 September 2020.
Azure Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 28 September 2020. 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
For the 6 months to 28 September 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Azure also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Azure.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
