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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 5,870 9,908 14,992
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 16.60% 16.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.65% 44.98% 43.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,218 7,201 10,880
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 105 90
10th Percentile £17.78 £18.48 £19.72
25th Percentile £22.19 £25.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £59.90 £46.32
% change year-on-year -16.53% +29.32% +0.22%

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 14,092 22,029 34,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,003 15,924 24,905
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 18 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 29 April 2024. 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 4,969 £545 -3.11% 3,609
London 0 2,878 £550 -8.33% 1,359
Work from Home -1 2,359 £538 -2.27% 2,174
UK excluding London -5 2,193 £500 -4.76% 2,419
South East -3 588 £550 -1.74% 532
North of England -5 514 £500 -4.76% 666
South West -5 362 £500 -9.09% 318
Midlands -6 313 £525 +9.38% 452
North West -9 290 £500 -4.76% 372
Scotland +1 250 £475 -6.86% 166
West Midlands -3 233 £550 +7.84% 278
Yorkshire -1 196 £475 -13.64% 215
East of England -23 91 £458 -3.68% 192
Wales +4 77 £500 - 93
East Midlands -4 77 £469 +4.17% 173
North East +2 34 £533 -11.25% 85
Northern Ireland +13 21 £563 +32.35% 44
Isle of Man - 5 £388 - 1

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
1 383 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 269 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 164 (2.79%) Confluence
4 113 (1.93%) Apache
5 96 (1.64%) Apache Spark
6 88 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
7 47 (0.80%) CMS
8 46 (0.78%) IIS
9 36 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
10 17 (0.29%) nginx
10 17 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 16 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
11 16 (0.27%) SAS
12 12 (0.20%) JBoss
12 12 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 11 (0.19%) Site Server
13 11 (0.19%) Skype for Business
14 10 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
15 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 8 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 143 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.19%) Sketch
7 10 (0.17%) Trello
8 9 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.034%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.034%) InVision
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.017%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.017%) InDesign
11 1 (0.017%) Marvel
11 1 (0.017%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.017%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 125 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 20 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.26%) Endur
4 15 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 13 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 11 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 11 (0.19%) Shopify
8 9 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.14%) Teamcenter
10 6 (0.10%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.10%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.085%) SimCorp Dimension
12 4 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
12 4 (0.068%) Maximo
12 4 (0.068%) SAP HR
13 3 (0.051%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 1,506 (25.66%) AWS
2 1,222 (20.82%) Azure DevOps
3 763 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
4 679 (11.57%) Power Platform
5 650 (11.07%) GCP
6 595 (10.14%) Entra ID
7 336 (5.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 291 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 286 (4.87%) Serverless
10 254 (4.33%) GitHub
11 243 (4.14%) PaaS
12 213 (3.63%) IaaS
13 209 (3.56%) SaaS
14 196 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
15 191 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
16 190 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 186 (3.17%) Azure Functions
18 179 (3.05%) Power Automate
19 178 (3.03%) PowerApps
20 166 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 441 (7.51%) Firewall
2 261 (4.45%) DNS
3 170 (2.90%) VPN
4 136 (2.32%) Network Security
5 121 (2.06%) WAN
6 117 (1.99%) DHCP
7 110 (1.87%) LAN
8 83 (1.41%) SAN
9 74 (1.26%) SSL
10 73 (1.24%) BGP
10 73 (1.24%) TCP/IP
11 49 (0.83%) MPLS
11 49 (0.83%) Wireless
12 45 (0.77%) OSPF
13 41 (0.70%) HTTP
13 41 (0.70%) SD-WAN
13 41 (0.70%) VLAN
14 32 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (0.53%) Internet
16 28 (0.48%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 629 (10.72%) SQL Server
2 491 (8.36%) Power BI
3 287 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
4 276 (4.70%) Data Lake
5 226 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 194 (3.30%) NoSQL
7 193 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 137 (2.33%) Big Data
9 130 (2.21%) Relational Database
10 122 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 117 (1.99%) MySQL
12 93 (1.58%) MongoDB
13 73 (1.24%) Tableau
14 57 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 48 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
16 43 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 42 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
18 39 (0.66%) RDBMS
18 39 (0.66%) Redis
19 37 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 395 (6.73%) Git
2 331 (5.64%) JIRA
3 195 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 145 (2.47%) GitLab
5 107 (1.82%) Selenium
6 80 (1.36%) Visual Studio
7 69 (1.18%) SpecFlow
8 66 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 59 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 55 (0.94%) Postman
11 46 (0.78%) Maven
12 44 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.56%) Bitbucket
14 32 (0.55%) Cucumber
15 28 (0.48%) JMeter
16 25 (0.43%) WebDriver
17 24 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
18 23 (0.39%) NUnit
19 21 (0.36%) CircleCI
20 20 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,343 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (18.62%) Finance
3 597 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 506 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 328 (5.59%) Banking
6 176 (3.00%) Front Office
7 145 (2.47%) Marketing
8 131 (2.23%) Retail
9 107 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 107 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 94 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 83 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
12 77 (1.31%) Legal
13 66 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 66 (1.12%) Law
14 57 (0.97%) Back Office
15 56 (0.95%) Electronics
16 50 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
17 49 (0.83%) Investment Banking
18 42 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,107 (18.86%) Developer
2 980 (16.70%) Architect
3 612 (10.43%) Senior
4 509 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
5 395 (6.73%) Analyst
6 358 (6.10%) Lead
7 357 (6.08%) Data Engineer
8 312 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
9 274 (4.67%) Consultant
10 260 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 236 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 217 (3.70%) .NET Developer
13 210 (3.58%) Software Engineer
14 192 (3.27%) Senior Developer
15 178 (3.03%) Azure Architect
16 173 (2.95%) Azure Developer
17 163 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
18 160 (2.73%) Full Stack Developer
19 157 (2.67%) Support Engineer
20 153 (2.61%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 756 (12.88%) .NET
2 325 (5.54%) React
3 221 (3.76%) .NET Core
4 213 (3.63%) XML
5 207 (3.53%) REST
6 195 (3.32%) HTML
7 182 (3.10%) AngularJS
8 173 (2.95%) .NET Framework
9 170 (2.90%) CSS
10 154 (2.62%) Web Services
11 152 (2.59%) Node.js
12 145 (2.47%) Kafka
13 134 (2.28%) JSON
14 127 (2.16%) ASP.NET
15 125 (2.13%) ARM Templates
16 121 (2.06%) PySpark
17 113 (1.93%) RESTful
18 92 (1.57%) YAML
19 86 (1.47%) Redux
20 85 (1.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 241 (4.11%) Product Ownership
2 168 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 164 (2.79%) Public Cloud
4 145 (2.47%) Cloud Native
5 138 (2.35%) PKI
6 112 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 109 (1.86%) Fixed Income
8 105 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 105 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 104 (1.77%) Hedge funds
10 90 (1.53%) Derivative
11 84 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 77 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 76 (1.29%) Equities
14 70 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 64 (1.09%) Replication
16 63 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
17 62 (1.06%) Private Cloud
18 60 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 58 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 866 (14.75%) Windows
2 449 (7.65%) Linux
3 339 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 186 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 107 (1.82%) Unix
6 80 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 79 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 71 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 64 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 56 (0.95%) Android
11 54 (0.92%) Apple iOS
12 51 (0.87%) Mac OS
13 40 (0.68%) VMS
14 21 (0.36%) Ubuntu
15 20 (0.34%) Solaris
16 19 (0.32%) Windows 7
17 16 (0.27%) Windows XP
18 13 (0.22%) Mac OS X
19 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
20 10 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,046 (34.86%) DevOps
2 1,577 (26.87%) Agile
3 844 (14.38%) CI/CD
4 776 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
5 714 (12.16%) Migration
6 563 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
7 514 (8.76%) Analytics
8 497 (8.47%) Software Engineering
9 471 (8.02%) Scrum
10 398 (6.78%) Data Modelling
11 396 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 365 (6.22%) ETL
13 337 (5.74%) Cybersecurity
14 327 (5.57%) Test Automation
15 319 (5.43%) Microservices
16 316 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 316 (5.38%) ITIL
17 308 (5.25%) Computer Science
17 308 (5.25%) Full Stack Development
18 304 (5.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,137 (19.37%) SQL
2 1,007 (17.16%) Python
3 813 (13.85%) C#
4 744 (12.67%) PowerShell
5 417 (7.10%) JavaScript
6 334 (5.69%) Java
7 260 (4.43%) TypeScript
8 154 (2.62%) Bash
9 153 (2.61%) Bicep
10 107 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 77 (1.31%) Scala
12 62 (1.06%) C++
13 56 (0.95%) Go
14 51 (0.87%) C
14 51 (0.87%) PHP
15 49 (0.83%) R
16 45 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
17 43 (0.73%) PL/SQL
18 40 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 39 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 876 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 670 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 581 (9.90%) Degree
4 262 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 225 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 195 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 122 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 100 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 97 (1.65%) CISSP
10 65 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 65 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 56 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 54 (0.92%) CCNP
13 51 (0.87%) CCNA
14 47 (0.80%) CISM
15 28 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
16 26 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
17 22 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 21 (0.36%) PMP
19 19 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (4.38%) QA
2 144 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 100 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 81 (1.38%) NIST
5 70 (1.19%) GDPR
6 60 (1.02%) SLA
7 57 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 53 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 46 (0.78%) NCSC
10 39 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
11 28 (0.48%) PMO
12 25 (0.43%) WCAG
13 20 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
15 14 (0.24%) GRC
16 10 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.15%) COBIT
18 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 930 (15.84%) Active Directory
2 400 (6.81%) Docker
3 209 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 131 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 124 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 74 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (0.68%) vSphere
9 17 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) XenApp
11 13 (0.22%) ACF2
11 13 (0.22%) IAG
11 13 (0.22%) RACF
12 11 (0.19%) Firmware
12 11 (0.19%) XenDesktop
13 10 (0.17%) NFS
13 10 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 9 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 586 (9.98%) Terraform
2 533 (9.08%) Kubernetes
3 296 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 260 (4.43%) Ansible
5 172 (2.93%) SCCM
6 95 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 82 (1.40%) SCOM
8 75 (1.28%) Grafana
9 74 (1.26%) Puppet
10 69 (1.18%) Prometheus
11 63 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 46 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 41 (0.70%) WSUS
14 33 (0.56%) vCenter Server
15 28 (0.48%) Argo
15 28 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
16 26 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
17 25 (0.43%) Kibana
18 21 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
19 20 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,909 (32.52%) Microsoft
2 374 (6.37%) Databricks
3 339 (5.78%) Oracle
4 336 (5.72%) VMware
5 219 (3.73%) Google
6 178 (3.03%) SAP
7 159 (2.71%) Cisco
8 134 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 114 (1.94%) Splunk
10 111 (1.89%) Citrix
11 93 (1.58%) CyberArk
12 92 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 77 (1.31%) Atlassian
14 71 (1.21%) F5
15 62 (1.06%) Salesforce
16 60 (1.02%) Red Hat
17 54 (0.92%) Informatica
18 53 (0.90%) HP
19 50 (0.85%) Okta
20 49 (0.83%) Dell