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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 21 September 2019 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
21 Sep 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
8 |
18 |
47 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+10 |
+29 |
+26 |
| Contract jobs citing Azure |
10,405 |
8,212 |
4,254 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.83% |
7.99% |
4.31% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category |
41.16% |
35.38% |
27.75% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,385 |
5,870 |
2,921 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
- |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£341 |
£325 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£663 |
£650 |
£606 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£465 |
£450 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.33% |
+5.88% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
85 |
42 |
28 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£24.18 |
£46.25 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+81.97% |
-47.72% |
+15.63% |
| 10th Percentile |
£22.75 |
£13.95 |
£15.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82.50 |
£55.00 |
£67.48 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£45.64 |
£18.00 |
£45.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+153.53% |
-60.00% |
+12.50% |
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 |
25,282 |
23,209 |
15,327 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
28.75% |
22.59% |
15.51% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
17,223 |
15,967 |
10,532 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£458 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+3.83% |
+1.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£300 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£656 |
£638 |
£619 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£438 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
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| Number of hourly rates quoted |
407 |
348 |
223 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£22.00 |
£18.13 |
£20.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+21.38% |
-9.38% |
+6.54% |
| 10th Percentile |
£13.65 |
£11.25 |
£11.05 |
| 90th Percentile |
£78.75 |
£63.26 |
£63.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£22.34 |
£17.50 |
£18.96 |
| % change year-on-year |
+27.63% |
-7.70% |
+11.53% |
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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 21 September 2019.
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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 21 September 2019.
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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 21 September 2019. 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 21 September 2019, 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 |
3,431 (32.97%) |
Microsoft |
| 2 |
3,400 (32.68%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 3 |
3,363 (32.32%) |
AWS |
| 4 |
3,180 (30.56%) |
DevOps |
| 5 |
2,328 (22.37%) |
C# |
| 6 |
2,309 (22.19%) |
SQL |
| 7 |
2,268 (21.80%) |
.NET |
| 8 |
1,905 (18.31%) |
Windows |
| 9 |
1,642 (15.78%) |
Finance |
| 10 |
1,601 (15.39%) |
SQL Server |
| 11 |
1,577 (15.16%) |
Active Directory |
| 12 |
1,456 (13.99%) |
JavaScript |
| 13 |
1,398 (13.44%) |
Office 365 |
| 14 |
1,347 (12.95%) |
Docker |
| 15 |
1,343 (12.91%) |
PowerShell |
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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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