Azure Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 85 159 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.47% 15.96% 13.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.35% 55.21% 41.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 128 149
10th Percentile £309 £280 £313
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £540
90th Percentile £688 £700 £643
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £17.34 -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -24.34% +27.64%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £37.50
90th Percentile - £54.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -13.64%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 216 288 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.60% 28.92% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 218 320
10th Percentile £163 £205 £157
25th Percentile £306 £325 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £515 £547 £525
90th Percentile £645 £700 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 14
10th Percentile - £13.16 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.76 £16.10
Median hourly rate £15.32 £20.00 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +1.91% +30.83%
75th Percentile £26.75 £26.48 £24.88
90th Percentile £27.50 £30.00 £32.44
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Nottinghamshire -2 25 £550 +10.00% 46
Northamptonshire +7 21 £445 -11.00% 25
Leicestershire -8 16 £503 +19.82% 26
Derbyshire -11 10 £425 -11.46% 19
Lincolnshire +19 8 £663 - 30
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (8.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.47%) AWS
2 23 (27.06%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 12 (14.12%) SaaS
5 9 (10.59%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (10.59%) Entra ID
6 7 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (8.24%) dbt
7 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (4.71%) Fivetran
8 4 (4.71%) GitHub
8 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.53%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.35%) GCP
10 2 (2.35%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.35%) Serverless
11 1 (1.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) Firewall
2 2 (2.35%) SAN
2 2 (2.35%) WAN
3 1 (1.18%) DHCP
3 1 (1.18%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) LAN
3 1 (1.18%) LTE
3 1 (1.18%) NAS
3 1 (1.18%) VLAN
3 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.47%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.76%) Power BI
3 9 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.06%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.88%) Tableau
6 4 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.71%) DB2
6 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.71%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (4.71%) Star Schema
7 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.35%) Big Data
8 2 (2.35%) Metadata
8 2 (2.35%) OLAP
9 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.18%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.18%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.18%) Postman
2 1 (1.18%) Selenium
2 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (30.59%) Finance
2 21 (24.71%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Banking
4 8 (9.41%) Legal
5 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Games
8 1 (1.18%) Local Government
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Architect
2 11 (12.94%) Developer
3 10 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) IT Manager
3 10 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (9.41%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (9.41%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 8 (9.41%) IT Services Manager
4 8 (9.41%) Service Delivery Manager
4 8 (9.41%) Service Manager
5 7 (8.24%) Senior
6 6 (7.06%) Analyst
6 6 (7.06%) Consultant
6 6 (7.06%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 6 (7.06%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.71%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (4.71%) Azure Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.12%) .NET
2 11 (12.94%) React
3 4 (4.71%) HTML
3 4 (4.71%) Redux
4 3 (3.53%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.53%) CSS
4 3 (3.53%) D3.js
4 3 (3.53%) Highcharts JS
4 3 (3.53%) LDAP
4 3 (3.53%) OAuth
4 3 (3.53%) OpenID
4 3 (3.53%) RESTful
4 3 (3.53%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.53%) SAML
4 3 (3.53%) Web Services
5 2 (2.35%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.35%) jQuery
5 2 (2.35%) REST
5 2 (2.35%) SOAP
5 2 (2.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.71%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.18%) FMCG
6 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.18%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Apple iOS
2 10 (11.76%) Windows
3 7 (8.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.71%) Android
4 4 (4.71%) Linux
5 3 (3.53%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.53%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.18%) AIX
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.18%) Unix
6 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (22.35%) Migration
3 16 (18.82%) Agile
4 12 (14.12%) Change Management
4 12 (14.12%) Information Security
5 11 (12.94%) Data Modelling
5 11 (12.94%) DevOps
5 11 (12.94%) Microservices
6 10 (11.76%) ITSM
6 10 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 10 (11.76%) Service Management
7 9 (10.59%) Decision-Making
7 9 (10.59%) People Management
7 9 (10.59%) Project Management
8 8 (9.41%) Business Analysis
8 8 (9.41%) IT Governance
8 8 (9.41%) Performance Metrics
8 8 (9.41%) Problem Management
8 8 (9.41%) Service Delivery Management
9 7 (8.24%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.18%) SQL
2 11 (12.94%) C#
3 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.41%) Swift
5 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.06%) Python
6 5 (5.88%) C
7 4 (4.71%) Java
8 3 (3.53%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) C++
9 1 (1.18%) Rust
9 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) CISSP
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (16.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.53%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) Docker
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (4.71%) Terraform
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) PowerBroker
3 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.18%) SCCM
3 1 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.94%) Okta
3 6 (7.06%) Databricks
4 5 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.88%) VMware
5 4 (4.71%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) Apple
6 1 (1.18%) Ariba
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) HP
6 1 (1.18%) Meraki
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle
6 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.18%) Veeam
6 1 (1.18%) Workday