Microsoft Azure
UK

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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 6,707 12,448 14,865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 14.94% 16.21% 16.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.21% 43.21% 42.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,919 9,053 10,814
10th Percentile £350 £395 £375
25th Percentile £435 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +5.63% +6.50%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -0.95% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 112 103
10th Percentile £17.75 £16.28 £15.62
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.69 £31.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.94% -36.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £65.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £75.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £49.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.76% -10.91% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 15,521 28,806 34,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.58% 37.52% 38.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,184 20,583 25,292
10th Percentile £300 £338 £345
25th Percentile £419 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £737 £744 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 409 496
10th Percentile £14.31 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.56 £15.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.16 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +5.52% -10.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £43.63 £46.50
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £19.21 £18.17
% change year-on-year +9.35% +5.73% -9.18%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK

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 7 December 2023. 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 0 5,663 £550 -3.46% 4,140
London +1 3,189 £568 -5.42% 1,515
Work from Home +1 2,924 £525 -4.55% 2,538
UK excluding London 0 2,579 £520 -0.95% 2,942
North of England -1 680 £500 -4.76% 766
South East -3 573 £550 +4.76% 832
Midlands +3 433 £475 -5.00% 535
North West -1 407 £495 -5.71% 375
South West +1 404 £550 +0.05% 308
West Midlands +4 326 £500 - 323
Scotland -1 280 £500 +3.09% 178
Yorkshire -2 250 £510 -6.42% 285
East of England -10 140 £464 -15.68% 239
East Midlands -1 98 £425 -19.05% 208
Wales +2 79 £450 -18.18% 99
North East +3 28 £425 -22.73% 116
Northern Ireland 0 7 £500 - 39

Azure
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
1 377 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 135 (2.01%) Confluence
3 105 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 83 (1.24%) MS Exchange
5 81 (1.21%) Apache
6 72 (1.07%) IIS
7 55 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
8 37 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
9 34 (0.51%) nginx
10 33 (0.49%) CMS
11 23 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 21 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 17 (0.25%) Drupal
13 17 (0.25%) SAS
14 16 (0.24%) Umbraco
15 14 (0.21%) Skype for Business
16 12 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 12 (0.18%) NServiceBus
17 10 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 8 (0.12%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 165 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.21%) Trello
7 6 (0.089%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.075%) Sketch
8 5 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.045%) CATIA
9 3 (0.045%) InVision
10 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.015%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.015%) InDesign
10 1 (0.015%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.015%) Marvel
10 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 135 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 13 (0.19%) Magento
7 11 (0.16%) Maximo
7 11 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.13%) Endur
8 9 (0.13%) Shopify
9 7 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
10 6 (0.089%) Oracle Retail
11 5 (0.075%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 5 (0.075%) SAP Hybris
12 4 (0.060%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
12 4 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.060%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 4 (0.060%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,809 (26.97%) AWS
2 1,252 (18.67%) Azure DevOps
3 951 (14.18%) Microsoft 365
4 734 (10.94%) GCP
5 723 (10.78%) Entra ID
6 692 (10.32%) Power Platform
7 368 (5.49%) Serverless
8 355 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 331 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
10 297 (4.43%) GitHub
11 257 (3.83%) SaaS
12 250 (3.73%) IaaS
12 250 (3.73%) PaaS
13 246 (3.67%) Azure Functions
14 223 (3.32%) Azure AKS
15 220 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
16 212 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
17 201 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 197 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
19 192 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 533 (7.95%) Firewall
2 384 (5.73%) DNS
3 259 (3.86%) Network Security
4 223 (3.32%) VPN
5 183 (2.73%) DHCP
6 155 (2.31%) WAN
7 129 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 127 (1.89%) LAN
9 104 (1.55%) SAN
10 72 (1.07%) SSL
11 67 (1.00%) VLAN
12 64 (0.95%) Internet
13 61 (0.91%) Wireless
14 59 (0.88%) HTTP
15 52 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.58%) SD-WAN
17 35 (0.52%) Kerberos
18 31 (0.46%) MPLS
19 30 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
20 29 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (9.93%) SQL Server
2 509 (7.59%) Power BI
3 364 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 327 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 292 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 203 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 177 (2.64%) Big Data
8 152 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 149 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 137 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 135 (2.01%) MySQL
12 121 (1.80%) MongoDB
13 77 (1.15%) Tableau
14 70 (1.04%) Oracle Database
15 68 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 57 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
17 53 (0.79%) RDBMS
18 49 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 47 (0.70%) Metadata
20 43 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 455 (6.78%) Git
2 350 (5.22%) JIRA
3 272 (4.06%) Jenkins
4 139 (2.07%) GitLab
5 104 (1.55%) Selenium
6 96 (1.43%) Postman
7 85 (1.27%) SpecFlow
8 69 (1.03%) Visual Studio
9 68 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 64 (0.95%) TeamCity
11 50 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
12 47 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
13 46 (0.69%) Maven
14 39 (0.58%) NUnit
15 34 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 34 (0.51%) Cypress.io
16 33 (0.49%) SonarQube
17 32 (0.48%) Subversion
18 28 (0.42%) Cucumber
18 28 (0.42%) JMeter
General
1 1,272 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 1,240 (18.49%) Finance
3 641 (9.56%) Public Sector
4 456 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 383 (5.71%) Banking
6 158 (2.36%) Marketing
7 122 (1.82%) Law
8 121 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 121 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 95 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 95 (1.42%) Retail
10 93 (1.39%) Front Office
10 93 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 88 (1.31%) Legal
12 79 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 66 (0.98%) Back Office
14 61 (0.91%) Electronics
14 61 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
16 54 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,176 (17.53%) Developer
2 1,012 (15.09%) Architect
3 722 (10.76%) Azure Engineer
4 635 (9.47%) Senior
5 495 (7.38%) Analyst
6 463 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 408 (6.08%) Lead
8 365 (5.44%) Data Engineer
9 315 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
10 296 (4.41%) .NET Developer
11 292 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 285 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 267 (3.98%) Consultant
14 227 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 214 (3.19%) Project Manager
16 195 (2.91%) Azure Architect
17 194 (2.89%) Support Engineer
18 162 (2.42%) Software Engineer
19 148 (2.21%) Full Stack Developer
20 147 (2.19%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (13.61%) .NET
2 282 (4.20%) REST
3 278 (4.14%) React
4 271 (4.04%) .NET Core
5 217 (3.24%) HTML
6 191 (2.85%) CSS
7 186 (2.77%) JSON
8 180 (2.68%) AngularJS
9 171 (2.55%) Node.js
10 170 (2.53%) ASP.NET
11 162 (2.42%) .NET Framework
12 152 (2.27%) Kafka
13 151 (2.25%) YAML
14 131 (1.95%) ARM Templates
15 126 (1.88%) OAuth
16 122 (1.82%) LDAP
17 121 (1.80%) PySpark
18 116 (1.73%) RESTful
19 106 (1.58%) Web Services
20 94 (1.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 253 (3.77%) Data Centre
2 251 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 239 (3.56%) Cloud Native
4 204 (3.04%) Public Cloud
5 149 (2.22%) PKI
6 144 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 135 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 129 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 112 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 105 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 94 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 84 (1.25%) Derivative
13 80 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 76 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 73 (1.09%) Private Cloud
16 72 (1.07%) Hedge funds
17 71 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 67 (1.00%) NHS
19 64 (0.95%) Fixed Income
20 63 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,164 (17.36%) Windows
2 653 (9.74%) Linux
3 454 (6.77%) Windows Server
4 167 (2.49%) Windows 10
5 151 (2.25%) Unix
6 104 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 98 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 78 (1.16%) Android
9 77 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 72 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
11 66 (0.98%) Apple iOS
12 59 (0.88%) Ubuntu
13 51 (0.76%) Mac OS
14 47 (0.70%) VMS
15 31 (0.46%) Solaris
16 30 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
17 25 (0.37%) AIX
17 25 (0.37%) CentOS
17 25 (0.37%) Windows 7
18 16 (0.24%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,199 (32.79%) DevOps
2 1,720 (25.64%) Agile
3 1,073 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 889 (13.25%) Migration
5 723 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
6 625 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
7 612 (9.12%) Analytics
8 601 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 453 (6.75%) Test Automation
10 449 (6.69%) Microservices
11 445 (6.63%) Software Engineering
12 430 (6.41%) Data Modelling
13 414 (6.17%) ITIL
14 396 (5.90%) Scrum
15 376 (5.61%) ETL
16 373 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 372 (5.55%) Roadmaps
18 370 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 351 (5.23%) Cybersecurity
20 317 (4.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,361 (20.29%) SQL
2 1,180 (17.59%) Python
3 888 (13.24%) C#
4 785 (11.70%) PowerShell
5 563 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 449 (6.69%) Java
7 287 (4.28%) Bash
8 234 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 151 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 122 (1.82%) Bicep
11 116 (1.73%) Go
12 90 (1.34%) C++
12 90 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 81 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 79 (1.18%) Scala
15 66 (0.98%) PHP
16 63 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 63 (0.94%) Perl
17 55 (0.82%) R
18 54 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 858 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 710 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 564 (8.41%) Degree
4 319 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 178 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 178 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 138 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 100 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 96 (1.43%) CISSP
9 81 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 80 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 62 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 58 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
13 53 (0.79%) CISM
14 44 (0.66%) CCNP
15 37 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (0.54%) CCNA
17 29 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.40%) MCSE
19 25 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (3.21%) QA
2 163 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 151 (2.25%) NIST
4 128 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 82 (1.22%) SLA
6 59 (0.88%) GDPR
7 55 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 52 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 40 (0.60%) PMO
10 33 (0.49%) NCSC
11 25 (0.37%) WCAG
12 21 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.21%) ISO 22301
16 13 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
17 12 (0.18%) HL7
17 12 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 11 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 11 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 1,044 (15.57%) Active Directory
2 603 (8.99%) Docker
3 294 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 159 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 157 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 156 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
7 44 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (0.58%) vSphere
9 32 (0.48%) BitLocker
10 20 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 18 (0.27%) NFS
12 17 (0.25%) OpenAM
13 11 (0.16%) XenApp
14 10 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
14 10 (0.15%) VMware NSX
15 9 (0.13%) Terminal Services
15 9 (0.13%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
17 7 (0.10%) ProxySG
18 5 (0.075%) Squid
Systems Management
1 842 (12.55%) Kubernetes
2 817 (12.18%) Terraform
3 424 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 369 (5.50%) Ansible
5 252 (3.76%) SCCM
6 129 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 105 (1.57%) Puppet
8 94 (1.40%) Prometheus
9 92 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 90 (1.34%) Grafana
11 89 (1.33%) Progress Chef
12 50 (0.75%) SCOM
13 41 (0.61%) Packer
14 37 (0.55%) WSUS
15 36 (0.54%) vCenter Server
16 34 (0.51%) Nagios
17 26 (0.39%) FortiGate
17 26 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
18 24 (0.36%) Kibana
19 22 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2,130 (31.76%) Microsoft
2 495 (7.38%) VMware
3 423 (6.31%) Oracle
4 400 (5.96%) Databricks
5 283 (4.22%) Google
6 227 (3.38%) Cisco
7 207 (3.09%) SAP
8 188 (2.80%) ServiceNow
9 141 (2.10%) Citrix
10 132 (1.97%) Splunk
11 116 (1.73%) Red Hat
12 91 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 75 (1.12%) IBM
14 63 (0.94%) Salesforce
15 62 (0.92%) MuleSoft
16 58 (0.86%) Atlassian
17 56 (0.83%) HP
18 49 (0.73%) NetApp
18 49 (0.73%) SolarWinds
19 47 (0.70%) EMC