Azure Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,274 4,547 8,244
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.44% 18.35% 18.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.25% 46.39% 44.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,634 3,380 6,130
10th Percentile £364 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 54 51
10th Percentile £21.16 £34.50 £32.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £60.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -47.96% +2.61% +21.37%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £47.00 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -44.44% +18.87% +6.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,382 9,801 18,399
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.55% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 7,278 13,752
10th Percentile £350 £372 £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 £644
90th Percentile £738 £744 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 130 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +2.07%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Azure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Azure daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Azure hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 122 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 88 (3.87%) Confluence
3 75 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 29 (1.28%) CMS
6 25 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.79%) Apache
7 18 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
8 10 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
8 10 (0.44%) IIS
9 8 (0.35%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.26%) Kentico
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.22%) JBoss
11 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 5 (0.22%) SAS
11 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.31%) Trello
6 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.18%) Sketch
7 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.088%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.044%) InVision
9 1 (0.044%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 55 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.06%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.44%) Endur
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.31%) Shopify
6 7 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.088%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.088%) Maximo
9 2 (0.088%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 2 (0.088%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.044%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.044%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 564 (24.80%) AWS
2 510 (22.43%) Azure DevOps
3 271 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
4 242 (10.64%) Power Platform
5 233 (10.25%) GCP
6 213 (9.37%) Entra ID
7 145 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
8 134 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 112 (4.93%) Serverless
10 104 (4.57%) GitHub
11 102 (4.49%) PaaS
12 92 (4.05%) SaaS
13 91 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 84 (3.69%) IaaS
15 83 (3.65%) PowerApps
16 79 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
17 78 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 78 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
18 73 (3.21%) Azure Functions
19 70 (3.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 156 (6.86%) Firewall
2 87 (3.83%) DNS
3 44 (1.93%) SSL
3 44 (1.93%) VPN
4 43 (1.89%) Network Security
5 41 (1.80%) DHCP
6 32 (1.41%) WAN
7 30 (1.32%) BGP
8 29 (1.28%) LAN
9 22 (0.97%) HTTP
9 22 (0.97%) TCP/IP
10 20 (0.88%) SAN
11 14 (0.62%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.57%) NAS
13 12 (0.53%) NetScaler
14 10 (0.44%) VLAN
15 9 (0.40%) OSPF
15 9 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.35%) MPLS
16 8 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 162 (7.12%) Power BI
3 116 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (4.66%) Data Lake
5 79 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 62 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
7 59 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 58 (2.55%) NoSQL
9 49 (2.15%) Big Data
10 34 (1.50%) MySQL
11 32 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 31 (1.36%) MongoDB
13 27 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.92%) Delta Lake
14 21 (0.92%) Redis
15 18 (0.79%) Tableau
16 16 (0.70%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
18 14 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
19 13 (0.57%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 160 (7.04%) JIRA
2 154 (6.77%) Git
3 75 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.59%) GitLab
5 42 (1.85%) Selenium
6 40 (1.76%) Visual Studio
7 27 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 25 (1.10%) SpecFlow
9 18 (0.79%) Postman
9 18 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.70%) Maven
10 16 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.48%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.35%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 532 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 407 (17.90%) Finance
3 262 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 161 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (2.95%) Banking
6 63 (2.77%) Retail
7 47 (2.07%) Front Office
7 47 (2.07%) Manufacturing
8 45 (1.98%) Marketing
9 40 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.41%) Law
13 28 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.19%) Back Office
15 23 (1.01%) General Ledger
15 23 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (0.84%) Legal
17 18 (0.79%) Electronics
18 12 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 478 (21.02%) Developer
2 400 (17.59%) Architect
3 280 (12.31%) Senior
4 180 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
5 157 (6.90%) Lead
6 149 (6.55%) Consultant
7 146 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 132 (5.80%) Analyst
9 115 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 109 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
11 90 (3.96%) Senior Developer
12 88 (3.87%) Azure Developer
13 87 (3.83%) .NET Developer
14 85 (3.74%) C# Developer
15 69 (3.03%) Azure Architect
16 66 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
16 66 (2.90%) Full Stack Developer
17 62 (2.73%) Azure Data Engineer
17 62 (2.73%) Data Architect
18 60 (2.64%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (14.42%) .NET
2 101 (4.44%) REST
2 101 (4.44%) XML
3 98 (4.31%) React
4 96 (4.22%) Web Services
5 79 (3.47%) ARM Templates
6 76 (3.34%) .NET Core
6 76 (3.34%) .NET Framework
7 72 (3.17%) CSS
8 71 (3.12%) HTML
9 64 (2.81%) AngularJS
9 64 (2.81%) ASP.NET
10 63 (2.77%) JSON
11 50 (2.20%) Node.js
12 49 (2.15%) RESTful
13 46 (2.02%) PySpark
14 44 (1.93%) Kafka
15 39 (1.72%) Middleware
16 35 (1.54%) YAML
17 34 (1.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 70 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 62 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 62 (2.73%) PKI
4 61 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 60 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 42 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 41 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (1.72%) Derivative
8 39 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 31 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (1.36%) Replication
10 30 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 25 (1.10%) NHS
13 23 (1.01%) Equities
13 23 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 23 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 295 (12.97%) Windows
2 163 (7.17%) Linux
3 108 (4.75%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.24%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.45%) Unix
6 32 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.70%) Android
11 11 (0.48%) Solaris
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) AIX
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.088%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (37.25%) DevOps
2 582 (25.59%) Agile
3 334 (14.69%) CI/CD
4 271 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
5 267 (11.74%) Migration
6 216 (9.50%) Analytics
7 203 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
8 163 (7.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 161 (7.08%) Software Engineering
10 157 (6.90%) Data Modelling
11 155 (6.82%) Scrum
12 148 (6.51%) Microservices
13 147 (6.46%) Test Automation
14 140 (6.16%) ETL
15 124 (5.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 113 (4.97%) Cybersecurity
17 107 (4.71%) Computer Science
18 104 (4.57%) Containerisation
19 102 (4.49%) ITIL
20 96 (4.22%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 455 (20.01%) SQL
2 379 (16.67%) C#
3 369 (16.23%) Python
4 252 (11.08%) PowerShell
5 160 (7.04%) JavaScript
6 133 (5.85%) Java
7 85 (3.74%) Bicep
8 77 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 64 (2.81%) Bash
10 31 (1.36%) Scala
11 28 (1.23%) Go
12 27 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 25 (1.10%) R
14 24 (1.06%) VB
15 18 (0.79%) VBScript
16 17 (0.75%) C++
16 17 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.75%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.57%) PHP
17 13 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 329 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 260 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 222 (9.76%) Degree
4 86 (3.78%) Azure Certification
4 86 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 70 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 21 (0.92%) CISSP
10 20 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 15 (0.66%) PMP
13 13 (0.57%) CISM
14 12 (0.53%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 6 (0.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.43%) QA
2 54 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.67%) GDPR
4 36 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.45%) NIST
6 30 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.28%) NCSC
8 23 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
10 11 (0.48%) WCAG
11 10 (0.44%) SLA
12 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.35%) PMO
13 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.22%) COBIT
14 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.18%) PSD2
15 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 314 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 175 (7.70%) Docker
3 56 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 43 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 38 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.79%) vSphere
8 7 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.13%) Firmware
12 2 (0.088%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.044%) ACF2
13 1 (0.044%) HDFS
13 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.044%) RACF
13 1 (0.044%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.044%) vCloud
13 1 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 234 (10.29%) Terraform
2 228 (10.03%) Kubernetes
3 89 (3.91%) Ansible
4 85 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (1.89%) SCCM
6 41 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (1.72%) SCOM
8 27 (1.19%) Grafana
9 26 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 25 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (0.97%) WSUS
12 21 (0.92%) Puppet
13 16 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
13 16 (0.70%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.35%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.35%) Kibana
15 8 (0.35%) Podman
16 7 (0.31%) Argo
17 6 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 697 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 152 (6.68%) Databricks
3 124 (5.45%) Oracle
4 103 (4.53%) VMware
5 68 (2.99%) Google
6 56 (2.46%) SAP
7 46 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.98%) Splunk
9 44 (1.93%) Cisco
10 39 (1.72%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.50%) Atlassian
11 34 (1.50%) Citrix
12 27 (1.19%) Salesforce
13 22 (0.97%) Informatica
14 20 (0.88%) HP
14 20 (0.88%) IBM
14 20 (0.88%) NetApp
14 20 (0.88%) Qualys
15 19 (0.84%) F5
15 19 (0.84%) Palo Alto