Azure Blueprints Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
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 Blueprints skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Blueprints 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 335 476 613
Rank change year-on-year +141 +137 -134
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 10 1 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.065% 0.004% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.015% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 18
10th Percentile - - £479
25th Percentile - £475 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £525 £661
90th Percentile - - £671
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Azure Blueprints is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks 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 technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,665 6,516 13,243
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.88% 25.20% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,555 4,857 9,782
10th Percentile £331 £395 £396
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.46% +13.02%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £775 £753 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £42.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.02% +29.08% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Azure Blueprints
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Blueprints trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Blueprints
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 Blueprints.

Azure Blueprints daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Blueprints
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 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 10 (100.00%) IaaS
1 10 (100.00%) PaaS
1 10 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 10 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 10 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 10 (100.00%) Project Management
1 10 (100.00%) Release Management
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform