Azure Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Azure
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure 34 63 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 10.00% 14.86% 22.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.97% 32.81% 53.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 49 83
10th Percentile £353 £465 £319
25th Percentile £406 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +13.21% +17.78%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £650 £838 £742
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £48.50 £55.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £49.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -11.71% -
75th Percentile - £49.50 £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -1.48%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 63 192 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 18.53% 45.28% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 147 162
10th Percentile £161 £350 £163
25th Percentile £190 £500 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +13.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £600
90th Percentile £650 £775 £706
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £11.44 - £15.43
25th Percentile £13.77 £48.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £20.77 £49.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +188.24% -
75th Percentile - £49.50 £36.38
90th Percentile £33.48 - £48.00
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Tyne and Wear +2 25 £529 -11.88% 59
Northumberland - 7 - - 3
Durham -4 1 £625 +19.05% 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.94%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) Serverless
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.82%) BrowserStack
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.82%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Stack
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) IaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.94%) Miro
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.82%) MySQL
1 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Cypress.io
2 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Marketing
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Advertising
4 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Lead
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Developer
3 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Angular Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 2 (5.88%) DBA
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (2.94%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Lead Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) PyTorch
1 7 (20.59%) TensorFlow
2 3 (8.82%) JSON
2 3 (8.82%) Next.js
2 3 (8.82%) React
2 3 (8.82%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) XML
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) Sass
4 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.94%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Unix
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) DevOps
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
3 10 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
5 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 8 (23.53%) Microservices
5 8 (23.53%) Visualisation
6 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (20.59%) Digital Engineering
6 7 (20.59%) GitOps
6 7 (20.59%) Migration
6 7 (20.59%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (17.65%) Scrum
8 4 (11.76%) Architectural Design
8 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.76%) CRM
8 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.82%) Analytics
9 3 (8.82%) Operational Stability
9 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.65%) Grafana
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.82%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) PagerDuty
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Citrix
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) mParticle