Azure Storage Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 554 643
Rank change year-on-year +92 +89 -145
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 76 96 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 0.55% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 61 102
10th Percentile £396 £425 £413
25th Percentile £480 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £619
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -3.03% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £770
90th Percentile £759 £813 £863
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +0.83% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Storage 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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,700 17,425 27,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.20% 36.37% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,456 12,787 19,980
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £416 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 287 338
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.96
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £34.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.15% +58.14% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £69.75 £49.24
90th Percentile £67.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
London +86 45 £581 -10.58% 8
South East +21 18 £605 -13.57% 5
South West +15 5 £513 -33.87% 5
North of England +23 2 £513 +7.89% 5
North West - 2 £513 -
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (14.47%) SharePoint
3 7 (9.21%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.32%) CMS
4 1 (1.32%) Drupal
4 1 (1.32%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (48.68%) Entra ID
3 24 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (30.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 22 (28.95%) Azure Functions
5 22 (28.95%) Serverless
6 21 (27.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 19 (25.00%) Azure API Management
7 19 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 19 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (23.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (21.05%) Power Platform
10 15 (19.74%) PaaS
11 14 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (17.11%) Power Automate
13 10 (13.16%) AWS
14 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (9.21%) Azure Batch
14 7 (9.21%) PowerApps
15 6 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.95%) DNS
2 21 (27.63%) DHCP
2 21 (27.63%) Firewall
3 6 (7.89%) Intranet
4 3 (3.95%) VPN
5 1 (1.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 9 (11.84%) Data Lake
4 8 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
5 7 (9.21%) OLTP
6 6 (7.89%) Big Data
7 5 (6.58%) Redis
8 3 (3.95%) Power BI
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Git
1 10 (13.16%) Postman
2 7 (9.21%) Visual Studio Team System
3 5 (6.58%) GitLab
4 4 (5.26%) Selenium
5 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.32%) Maven
5 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Finance
3 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.21%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Law
5 2 (2.63%) Legal
5 2 (2.63%) Military
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (42.11%) Developer
2 18 (23.68%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (19.74%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (18.42%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (18.42%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (18.42%) Support Specialist
5 9 (11.84%) Python Developer
5 9 (11.84%) Senior
6 7 (9.21%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Lead
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Python Developer
7 6 (7.89%) SharePoint Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Active Directory Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Applications Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (34.21%) ARM Templates
2 16 (21.05%) Web Services
3 14 (18.42%) .NET
4 10 (13.16%) Swagger
5 8 (10.53%) .NET Core
6 7 (9.21%) Blazor
6 7 (9.21%) JSON
7 6 (7.89%) SPFx
7 6 (7.89%) XML
8 4 (5.26%) pytest
8 4 (5.26%) YAML
9 3 (3.95%) PySpark
10 2 (2.63%) Kafka
10 2 (2.63%) RESTful
11 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.32%) Django
11 1 (1.32%) FastAPI
11 1 (1.32%) Flask
11 1 (1.32%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) PKI
1 18 (23.68%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.58%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.95%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (48.68%) Windows
2 25 (32.89%) Linux
3 24 (31.58%) Windows Server
4 19 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (23.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.63%) Unix
8 2 (2.63%) VMS
9 1 (1.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (63.16%) Agile
2 45 (59.21%) CI/CD
3 32 (42.11%) DevOps
4 26 (34.21%) Analytics
5 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (26.32%) API Management
7 18 (23.68%) Identity Management
7 18 (23.68%) ITIL
7 18 (23.68%) Log Analytics
7 18 (23.68%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 18 (23.68%) Privileged Identity Management
7 18 (23.68%) RBAC
7 18 (23.68%) Release Management
7 18 (23.68%) Service Management
7 18 (23.68%) Software Engineering
7 18 (23.68%) TDD
8 16 (21.05%) Microservices
8 16 (21.05%) Migration
9 11 (14.47%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (13.16%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) C#
2 31 (40.79%) SQL
3 28 (36.84%) PowerShell
4 24 (31.58%) Python
5 20 (26.32%) Bicep
6 18 (23.68%) VB
6 18 (23.68%) VBScript
7 14 (18.42%) JavaScript
8 7 (9.21%) C++
8 7 (9.21%) Go
8 7 (9.21%) PL/SQL
8 7 (9.21%) T-SQL
9 6 (7.89%) Java
10 3 (3.95%) Bash
11 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 23 (30.26%) Degree
4 18 (23.68%) DV Cleared
4 18 (23.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) SLA
2 2 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 40 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 25 (32.89%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (23.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (6.58%) Docker
5 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (43.42%) Kubernetes
2 21 (27.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (23.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (23.68%) SCCM
3 18 (23.68%) SCOM
3 18 (23.68%) WSUS
4 13 (17.11%) Terraform
5 4 (5.26%) Grafana
5 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) yum
Vendors
1 50 (65.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) Oracle
3 7 (9.21%) MuleSoft
4 5 (6.58%) Databricks
4 5 (6.58%) VMware
5 3 (3.95%) CA
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco
6 1 (1.32%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.32%) Sybase