Azure Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 519 878 1,062
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.95% 15.93% 14.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.55% 44.16% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 677 838
10th Percentile £350 £357 £275
25th Percentile £425 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £609
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 10
10th Percentile £19.24 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.73 £20.00 £17.16
Median hourly rate £31.84 £44.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +98.18% -63.81%
75th Percentile £39.32 £70.00 £56.13
90th Percentile £43.44 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -13.64%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,420 1,988 2,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.95% 36.08% 35.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 1,476 1,943
10th Percentile £263 £288 £186
25th Percentile £395 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 45 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.07 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +37.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £56.40 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £70.00 £77.50
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -9 286 £500 - 368
Yorkshire +1 204 £500 -9.09% 210
North East -2 35 £533 -11.25% 73
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 23 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 21 (4.05%) Confluence
4 18 (3.47%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.77%) Apache
6 4 (0.77%) CMS
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.58%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) Kentico
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.35%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.39%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 159 (30.64%) AWS
2 87 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (15.41%) GCP
4 68 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (9.44%) Entra ID
6 45 (8.67%) Power Platform
7 33 (6.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (5.97%) GitHub
9 29 (5.59%) Serverless
10 28 (5.39%) SaaS
11 21 (4.05%) IaaS
12 19 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (3.28%) PaaS
15 16 (3.08%) Akamai
15 16 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (3.08%) Cloudflare
16 15 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
16 15 (2.89%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.55%) Firewall
2 30 (5.78%) DNS
3 26 (5.01%) VPN
4 20 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.89%) WAN
6 13 (2.50%) OSPF
7 12 (2.31%) LAN
8 11 (2.12%) Network Security
9 10 (1.93%) HTTP
10 9 (1.73%) VLAN
10 9 (1.73%) Wireshark
11 8 (1.54%) Wireless
12 7 (1.35%) Ethernet
12 7 (1.35%) Wireless Security
13 6 (1.16%) BGP
13 6 (1.16%) HTTPS
13 6 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.77%) MPLS
14 4 (0.77%) SAN
14 4 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.90%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (6.74%) Power BI
2 35 (6.74%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.17%) Data Lake
4 21 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.47%) Big Data
6 17 (3.28%) MySQL
7 15 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (2.70%) Hadoop
8 14 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.93%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.93%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (1.73%) GIS
13 8 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 51 (9.83%) Git
2 38 (7.32%) JIRA
3 28 (5.39%) GitLab
4 27 (5.20%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (1.73%) CircleCI
6 9 (1.73%) Travis CI
7 6 (1.16%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.16%) Hudson
8 5 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.96%) Selenium
8 5 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.77%) AppScan
9 4 (0.77%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.58%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.39%) Maven
11 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (9.63%) Finance
3 48 (9.25%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.62%) Banking
6 21 (4.05%) Retail
7 9 (1.73%) Law
8 8 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.96%) Legal
11 4 (0.77%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.58%) Automotive
12 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.58%) Local Government
12 3 (0.58%) Marketing
13 2 (0.39%) Advertising
13 2 (0.39%) German Language
13 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (21.77%) Architect
2 67 (12.91%) Developer
3 50 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
4 49 (9.44%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (6.55%) Lead
7 33 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (5.97%) Analyst
9 30 (5.78%) Senior
10 27 (5.20%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.05%) Azure Architect
11 21 (4.05%) Project Manager
12 18 (3.47%) .NET Developer
13 17 (3.28%) Consultant
13 17 (3.28%) Data Architect
14 16 (3.08%) Network Engineer
15 15 (2.89%) Security Architect
16 14 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 13 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
18 12 (2.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.13%) .NET
2 21 (4.05%) Kafka
3 19 (3.66%) JSON
4 18 (3.47%) XML
5 14 (2.70%) RESTful
5 14 (2.70%) Web Services
6 13 (2.50%) .NET Core
6 13 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.50%) HTML
6 13 (2.50%) React
6 13 (2.50%) REST
7 12 (2.31%) SOAP
7 12 (2.31%) YAML
8 11 (2.12%) .NET Framework
8 11 (2.12%) SailPoint
9 10 (1.93%) Entity Framework
9 10 (1.93%) Node.js
9 10 (1.93%) Spring
10 9 (1.73%) CSS
11 8 (1.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.66%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 13 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.31%) NHS
5 11 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.16%) DataPower
8 6 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.16%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.16%) Replication
8 6 (1.16%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.96%) PKI
10 4 (0.77%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.77%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (11.56%) Windows
2 44 (8.48%) Linux
3 23 (4.43%) Windows 10
4 16 (3.08%) Unix
4 16 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.54%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.77%) Android
7 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (35.26%) DevOps
2 130 (25.05%) Agile
3 76 (14.64%) CI/CD
4 73 (14.07%) Migration
4 73 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (10.60%) Data Modelling
6 53 (10.21%) Analytics
7 48 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 46 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (8.48%) Containerisation
10 43 (8.29%) ETL
11 39 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (7.51%) Microservices
12 38 (7.32%) Scrum
13 37 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (6.74%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (6.36%) Data Management
16 31 (5.97%) Data Integration
16 31 (5.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (18.11%) Python
2 91 (17.53%) SQL
3 65 (12.52%) PowerShell
4 43 (8.29%) Java
5 33 (6.36%) C#
6 32 (6.17%) Bash
7 30 (5.78%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.12%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.54%) Go
11 7 (1.35%) C
11 7 (1.35%) PHP
12 5 (0.96%) Bicep
13 3 (0.58%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.58%) Scala
14 2 (0.39%) Perl
14 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.39%) VB
15 1 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 57 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.13%) Degree
4 18 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.12%) CCNA
6 11 (2.12%) CISSP
7 9 (1.73%) CISM
8 8 (1.54%) CCNP
8 8 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.96%) CCIE
9 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.77%) VCAP
11 3 (0.58%) MCSE
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) MCITP
13 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.55%) QA
2 14 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.12%) GDPR
4 8 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.35%) NIST
6 5 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) SLA
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.19%) PMO
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (15.03%) Active Directory
2 37 (7.13%) Docker
3 20 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.89%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.39%) HDFS
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.19%) ACF2
8 1 (0.19%) IAG
8 1 (0.19%) NFS
8 1 (0.19%) RACF
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (13.68%) Terraform
2 49 (9.44%) Kubernetes
3 39 (7.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (5.01%) Ansible
5 24 (4.62%) Grafana
6 21 (4.05%) Prometheus
7 16 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.70%) Puppet
9 12 (2.31%) SCCM
10 9 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.73%) Kibana
10 9 (1.73%) logstash
11 5 (0.96%) Nessus
12 4 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.77%) Graylog
12 4 (0.77%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.77%) WebInspect
13 3 (0.58%) Autotask
Vendors
1 166 (31.98%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.17%) VMware
3 30 (5.78%) Google
4 26 (5.01%) Databricks
5 20 (3.85%) Oracle
6 19 (3.66%) F5
7 17 (3.28%) Splunk
8 12 (2.31%) CyberArk
9 10 (1.93%) Sophos
10 9 (1.73%) Cisco
11 7 (1.35%) Brio
11 7 (1.35%) IBM
11 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.35%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.16%) Citrix
12 6 (1.16%) TSYS
13 5 (0.96%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.96%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.96%) SAP
14 4 (0.77%) Veracode