Azure Contracts in Preston

Microsoft Azure
Lancashire > Preston

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 22 16
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 10.00% 3.09% 5.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.28% 27.27% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £350 £288 £422
25th Percentile £406 £301 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £328 £473
Median % change year-on-year +125.95% -30.69% -3.08%
75th Percentile £763 £361 £594
90th Percentile £860 £377 £718
Lancashire median daily rate £650 £375 £675
% change year-on-year +73.33% -44.44% +68.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
Lancashire median hourly rate - £43.34 £37.75
% change year-on-year - +14.81% -39.28%

All Cloud Skills
Preston

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 Preston with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 43 11 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 61.43% 11.34% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 20
10th Percentile £350 £271 £155
25th Percentile £494 £301 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £433 £175
Median % change year-on-year +38.61% +147.14% -63.16%
75th Percentile £642 £591 £391
90th Percentile £758 £738 £480
Lancashire median daily rate £600 £381 £473
% change year-on-year +57.38% -19.31% +28.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 1
10th Percentile - £39.43 -
25th Percentile - £41.95 £18.62
Median hourly rate £16.06 £49.57 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -67.60% +157.57% -12.52%
75th Percentile - £54.69 £19.87
90th Percentile - £55.72 -
Lancashire median hourly rate £16.06 £46.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year -65.22% +149.62% -15.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Preston

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Preston

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Preston

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Preston.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Preston

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) IAM Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Programme Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Line Management
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Identification
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cadence