Azure Batch Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Batch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Azure Batch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Batch over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 470 625
Rank change year-on-year +130 +155 -146
Contract jobs citing Azure Batch 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.027% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.090% 0.068% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £428 £481
25th Percentile - £519 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £573 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.49% -8.36% +4.17%
75th Percentile - £629 £725
90th Percentile - £679 -
UK median daily rate £650 £544 £594
% change year-on-year +19.54% -8.42% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Batch 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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,555 10,236 18,496
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.20% 39.59% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 7,514 13,810
10th Percentile £350 £373 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.43 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +83.33% -18.23%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £78.40 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%

Azure Batch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Batch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Batch trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Batch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Batch.

Azure Batch daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Batch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure API Management
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Storage
2 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (80.00%) PowerApps
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (80.00%) OLTP
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio Team System
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Research Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Research Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) API Management
1 4 (80.00%) BDD
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Fortran
4 1 (20.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft