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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 October 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
23 Oct 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
8 |
14 |
47 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+6 |
+33 |
+25 |
| Contract jobs citing Azure |
10,143 |
8,634 |
4,566 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.98% |
8.35% |
4.56% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category |
41.39% |
35.82% |
28.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,235 |
6,191 |
3,199 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£485 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+3.09% |
+2.11% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£336 |
£331 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£662 |
£638 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£463 |
£450 |
£438 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.78% |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
88 |
35 |
28 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£44.75 |
£18.75 |
£45.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+138.67% |
-58.33% |
+20.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£25.00 |
£13.73 |
£15.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82.50 |
£59.77 |
£67.48 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£47.00 |
£17.50 |
£45.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+168.57% |
-61.11% |
+20.00% |
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 |
24,507 |
24,106 |
16,207 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
28.94% |
23.30% |
16.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
16,798 |
16,643 |
11,199 |
| UK median daily rate |
£495 |
£475 |
£460 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+4.21% |
+3.26% |
+2.22% |
| 10th Percentile |
£291 |
£303 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£656 |
£638 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£440 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.27% |
+3.53% |
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| Number of hourly rates quoted |
413 |
338 |
231 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£21.50 |
£17.50 |
£20.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+22.86% |
-12.50% |
+11.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£14.00 |
£11.25 |
£11.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£73.75 |
£58.25 |
£63.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£21.76 |
£17.50 |
£18.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+24.34% |
-5.41% |
+8.82% |
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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 October 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 23 October 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 23 October 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 23 October 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 |
3,309 (32.62%) |
Microsoft |
| 2 |
3,247 (32.01%) |
AWS |
| 3 |
3,224 (31.79%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 4 |
3,111 (30.67%) |
DevOps |
| 5 |
2,291 (22.59%) |
SQL |
| 6 |
2,246 (22.14%) |
C# |
| 7 |
2,182 (21.51%) |
.NET |
| 8 |
1,841 (18.15%) |
Windows |
| 9 |
1,563 (15.41%) |
Finance |
| 10 |
1,540 (15.18%) |
SQL Server |
| 11 |
1,491 (14.70%) |
Active Directory |
| 12 |
1,437 (14.17%) |
Office 365 |
| 13 |
1,362 (13.43%) |
Python |
| 14 |
1,352 (13.33%) |
JavaScript |
| 15 |
1,312 (12.94%) |
Docker |
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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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