Azure Contracts in Worcestershire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 3 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 21.74% 4.00% 22.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.62% 27.27% 51.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 24
10th Percentile £685 £420 £398
25th Percentile - £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £875 £525 £675
90th Percentile £900 £540 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -1.73%

All Cloud Skills
Worcestershire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21 11 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 45.65% 14.67% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 45
10th Percentile £128 £363 £204
25th Percentile £145 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £725 £475 £675
90th Percentile £900 £510 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.22 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.16 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% - -
75th Percentile £18.13 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Worcestershire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Worcestershire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Worcestershire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Worcestershire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Worcester - 9 £700 - 13
Malvern +6 8 £750 +87.50%
Azure
West Midlands

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Rocky
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) API Design
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) DV Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NCSC
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Dell