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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 23 January 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.
| Microsoft Azure UK |
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6 months to
23 Jan 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
7 |
11 |
39 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
+28 |
+18 |
| Contract jobs citing Azure |
9,156 |
9,625 |
5,404 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
12.64% |
9.66% |
5.37% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category |
42.54% |
38.18% |
29.26% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,343 |
6,876 |
3,888 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£500 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£350 |
£320 |
| 90th Percentile |
£662 |
£650 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£463 |
£475 |
£450 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.63% |
+5.56% |
+9.09% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
74 |
44 |
29 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£48.50 |
£35.00 |
£31.39 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+38.57% |
+11.50% |
+96.19% |
| 10th Percentile |
£25.00 |
£15.50 |
£15.70 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82.50 |
£62.06 |
£46.40 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£46.00 |
£35.00 |
£33.78 |
| % change year-on-year |
+31.43% |
+3.61% |
+111.13% |
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.
| All Cloud Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills |
21,522 |
25,208 |
18,466 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
29.72% |
25.29% |
18.36% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
14,581 |
17,404 |
12,836 |
| UK median daily rate |
£490 |
£500 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-1.90% |
+5.16% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£278 |
£305 |
£286 |
| 90th Percentile |
£663 |
£650 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
391 |
323 |
237 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£20.75 |
£17.50 |
£19.63 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+18.57% |
-10.83% |
+3.29% |
| 10th Percentile |
£14.00 |
£11.25 |
£11.15 |
| 90th Percentile |
£78.75 |
£57.00 |
£55.60 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£20.00 |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+14.29% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Azure as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Azure.
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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 23 January 2020.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 23 January 2020.
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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 23 January 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.
For the 6 months to 23 January 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.
| 1 |
3,148 (34.38%) |
Microsoft |
| 2 |
2,865 (31.29%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 3 |
2,861 (31.25%) |
DevOps |
| 4 |
2,778 (30.34%) |
AWS |
| 5 |
2,217 (24.21%) |
SQL |
| 6 |
2,014 (22.00%) |
.NET |
| 7 |
1,956 (21.36%) |
C# |
| 8 |
1,665 (18.18%) |
Windows |
| 9 |
1,419 (15.50%) |
Active Directory |
| 10 |
1,381 (15.08%) |
Finance |
| 11 |
1,358 (14.83%) |
SQL Server |
| 12 |
1,291 (14.10%) |
Office 365 |
| 13 |
1,228 (13.41%) |
PowerShell |
| 14 |
1,185 (12.94%) |
Migration |
| 15 |
1,174 (12.82%) |
Python |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
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:
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