Azure Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 286 542 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.49% 17.83% 14.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.72% 47.54% 42.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 411 493
10th Percentile £350 £363 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £595 £573 £613
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 8
10th Percentile - £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.00 £16.81
Median hourly rate £17.50 £55.84 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.66% +148.18% -66.34%
75th Percentile £18.75 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -44.44% +36.22% -14.35%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 874 1,140 1,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.05% 37.50% 35.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 842 1,111
10th Percentile £283 £308 £213
25th Percentile £391 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 39 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.94 £14.70
25th Percentile - £17.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.20 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -40.96% +3.05% +50.83%
75th Percentile £26.50 £59.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the North West

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester -4 200 £500 - 231
Cheshire -11 50 £489 -11.09% 72
Lancashire +1 16 £650 +73.33% 37
Merseyside -16 8 £425 -12.19% 37
Cumbria -23 4 £522 +22.71% 6
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 16 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.85%) Confluence
4 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.70%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.45%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (26.57%) AWS
2 48 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (11.19%) Power Platform
5 28 (9.79%) Entra ID
6 27 (9.44%) GCP
7 22 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (6.29%) SaaS
9 16 (5.59%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (3.50%) IaaS
12 10 (3.50%) Serverless
13 9 (3.15%) PaaS
14 7 (2.45%) Azure Stack
14 7 (2.45%) Mimecast
15 6 (2.10%) Apigee
15 6 (2.10%) Kong
15 6 (2.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.94%) VPN
2 15 (5.24%) Firewall
3 13 (4.55%) DNS
3 13 (4.55%) OSPF
3 13 (4.55%) WAN
4 11 (3.85%) LAN
4 11 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.15%) VLAN
6 8 (2.80%) Wireless
7 7 (2.45%) Ethernet
7 7 (2.45%) Wireless Security
8 6 (2.10%) BGP
8 6 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.75%) Network Security
10 4 (1.40%) MPLS
10 4 (1.40%) SAN
10 4 (1.40%) Value-Added Service
10 4 (1.40%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.05%) VoIP
12 2 (0.70%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (8.74%) Power BI
3 22 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.94%) Data Lake
5 12 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (3.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (3.15%) MySQL
8 8 (2.80%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.10%) OLAP
9 6 (2.10%) OLTP
10 5 (1.75%) Oracle OLAP
10 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.40%) Big Data
11 4 (1.40%) GIS
11 4 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.40%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (5.94%) JIRA
2 11 (3.85%) Git
3 8 (2.80%) GitLab
4 6 (2.10%) Hudson
5 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.40%) Selenium
6 3 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.70%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.70%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.70%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.70%) MSI
8 1 (0.35%) JMeter
8 1 (0.35%) Maven
8 1 (0.35%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.35%) Postman
8 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.29%) Finance
3 29 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.94%) Banking
5 16 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.10%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.75%) Legal
7 5 (1.75%) Retail
8 4 (1.40%) Law
9 2 (0.70%) Automotive
9 2 (0.70%) German Language
9 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 66 (23.08%) Architect
2 33 (11.54%) Developer
3 30 (10.49%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (8.39%) Senior
6 24 (8.39%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (7.69%) Analyst
8 20 (6.99%) Lead
9 16 (5.59%) Azure Architect
9 16 (5.59%) Network Engineer
10 14 (4.90%) Consultant
10 14 (4.90%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.85%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.15%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Azure Consultant
13 8 (2.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Security Architect
13 8 (2.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.39%) .NET
2 11 (3.85%) REST
3 10 (3.50%) HTML
3 10 (3.50%) SOAP
4 9 (3.15%) .NET Framework
4 9 (3.15%) Entity Framework
4 9 (3.15%) JSON
4 9 (3.15%) Spring
4 9 (3.15%) Web Services
5 8 (2.80%) CSS
5 8 (2.80%) Kafka
5 8 (2.80%) React
5 8 (2.80%) Spring Boot
5 8 (2.80%) XML
6 7 (2.45%) .NET Core
6 7 (2.45%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (2.45%) PySpark
7 6 (2.10%) Apache Camel
7 6 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.10%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.45%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.45%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.10%) DataPower
4 6 (2.10%) Reference Data
4 6 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.75%) PKI
5 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.40%) Clustering
6 4 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.40%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.05%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.89%) Windows
2 24 (8.39%) Linux
3 11 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.80%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.80%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.40%) Android
6 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.05%) Unix
8 2 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.70%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.47%) DevOps
2 72 (25.17%) Agile
3 42 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.34%) Migration
5 37 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 31 (10.84%) Analytics
8 27 (9.44%) Data Management
9 26 (9.09%) Microservices
10 23 (8.04%) ETL
11 22 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (7.69%) Data Modelling
12 19 (6.64%) Architectural Patterns
12 19 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (6.29%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (6.29%) Project Delivery
14 17 (5.94%) Computer Science
14 17 (5.94%) Data Architecture
15 16 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (5.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.73%) SQL
2 37 (12.94%) PowerShell
3 33 (11.54%) Python
4 23 (8.04%) C#
5 20 (6.99%) Java
6 16 (5.59%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (2.45%) C
9 5 (1.75%) Go
9 5 (1.75%) PHP
9 5 (1.75%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.40%) Bash
10 4 (1.40%) Bicep
11 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.70%) VB
12 1 (0.35%) C++
12 1 (0.35%) Fortran
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.74%) Degree
4 15 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.15%) CCNA
6 9 (3.15%) CISSP
7 8 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.80%) CISM
7 8 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.10%) CCNP
8 6 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.75%) CCIE
10 4 (1.40%) VCAP
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.05%) MCSE
12 2 (0.70%) MCITP
13 1 (0.35%) MCP
13 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.94%) QA
2 12 (4.20%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.10%) NIST
4 4 (1.40%) GDPR
4 4 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (16.43%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.45%) Docker
5 6 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 32 (11.19%) Terraform
2 24 (8.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.50%) SCCM
5 9 (3.15%) Kubernetes
6 8 (2.80%) Ansible
7 4 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.05%) Autotask
8 3 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.05%) Grafana
8 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.70%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) Avamar
10 1 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 98 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.74%) VMware
3 18 (6.29%) Databricks
4 17 (5.94%) Oracle
5 11 (3.85%) Google
6 10 (3.50%) Sophos
7 7 (2.45%) Cisco
7 7 (2.45%) IBM
7 7 (2.45%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.10%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.10%) TSYS
9 5 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.40%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.40%) CA
10 4 (1.40%) Cadence
10 4 (1.40%) Citrix
10 4 (1.40%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.05%) Datto
11 3 (1.05%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow