Azure Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 11 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 588 831 1,067
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.59% 14.30% 13.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.55% 48.71% 43.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 650 838
10th Percentile £363 £399 £350
25th Percentile £456 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +6.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £662 £613
90th Percentile £675 £749 £688
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 13
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.01 £12.67
25th Percentile £23.52 £52.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £67.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +26.17% +87.72%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £83.11
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -1.48%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.89% 29.36% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,252 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 52 64
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +16.39% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.81 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South East

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Thames Valley +1 338 £575 +4.55% 160
Berkshire 0 273 £600 +2.13% 70
Hampshire -13 105 £575 +3.14% 143
Surrey -6 59 £500 -6.98% 92
Buckinghamshire -6 42 £450 -11.76% 52
Kent +2 30 £523 +0.48% 52
West Sussex 0 30 £475 -31.95% 25
Oxfordshire -2 23 £465 +3.33% 38
East Sussex -5 12 £588 -16.07% 30
Sussex -1 5 £550 -8.33% 1
Home Counties +6 4 £538 -17.31%
Middlesex - 4 £275 - 2
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England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 33 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.89%) Confluence
3 16 (2.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.51%) Apache
4 3 (0.51%) CMS
4 3 (0.51%) SAS
5 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Kentico
5 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Jadu
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.17%) Site Server
6 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 12 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.53%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (1.36%) Teamcenter
5 6 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.34%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 141 (23.98%) Azure DevOps
2 140 (23.81%) AWS
3 68 (11.56%) Entra ID
4 61 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (9.86%) Power Platform
6 52 (8.84%) Azure Monitor
7 46 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (6.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 35 (5.95%) Serverless
10 32 (5.44%) Azure Functions
11 24 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (3.91%) PaaS
13 21 (3.57%) GCP
14 20 (3.40%) IaaS
15 18 (3.06%) OCI
16 16 (2.72%) Azure Key Vault
16 16 (2.72%) Azure Storage
16 16 (2.72%) Power Automate
17 15 (2.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.37%) Firewall
2 47 (7.99%) DNS
3 46 (7.82%) SSL
4 39 (6.63%) DHCP
5 24 (4.08%) SAN
6 17 (2.89%) Network Security
7 11 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.87%) VPN
8 10 (1.70%) WAN
9 6 (1.02%) LAN
9 6 (1.02%) Wireless
10 5 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.68%) BGP
12 3 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.51%) IOS XR
12 3 (0.51%) MPLS
12 3 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.65%) Power BI
2 39 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.91%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.87%) MySQL
10 9 (1.53%) Redis
11 8 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.85%) GIS
13 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.85%) Tableau
14 4 (0.68%) Big Data
14 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.68%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 47 (7.99%) Git
2 38 (6.46%) JIRA
3 29 (4.93%) Selenium
4 20 (3.40%) GitLab
4 20 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 13 (2.21%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.04%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.87%) Visual Studio
9 8 (1.36%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (1.02%) JMeter
10 6 (1.02%) Postman
10 6 (1.02%) Robot Framework
10 6 (1.02%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.34%) Appium
13 2 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 143 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 81 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (8.84%) Finance
4 31 (5.27%) Public Sector
5 13 (2.21%) Law
5 13 (2.21%) Telecoms
6 11 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.53%) Legal
8 9 (1.53%) Police
9 7 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.02%) Marketing
10 6 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.85%) Banking
12 4 (0.68%) Automotive
12 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.68%) Retail
13 3 (0.51%) Military
13 3 (0.51%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 102 (17.35%) Developer
2 95 (16.16%) Architect
3 61 (10.37%) Senior
4 42 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (7.14%) Lead
5 37 (6.29%) Analyst
6 35 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
7 31 (5.27%) Active Directory Support
7 31 (5.27%) Azure Developer
7 31 (5.27%) Azure Specialist
8 27 (4.59%) Active Directory Specialist
8 27 (4.59%) Support Specialist
9 25 (4.25%) Full Stack Developer
10 23 (3.91%) Consultant
11 22 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (3.40%) Support Engineer
13 18 (3.06%) Administrator
13 18 (3.06%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.72%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.72%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.84%) .NET
2 45 (7.65%) Web Services
3 36 (6.12%) ARM Templates
4 27 (4.59%) React
5 26 (4.42%) REST
6 24 (4.08%) AngularJS
7 22 (3.74%) Node.js
8 17 (2.89%) CSS
9 16 (2.72%) HTML
9 16 (2.72%) XML
10 15 (2.55%) JSON
11 14 (2.38%) .NET Core
11 14 (2.38%) RESTful
12 13 (2.21%) Itk
12 13 (2.21%) Java EE
13 10 (1.70%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.36%) ASP.NET
14 8 (1.36%) Django
14 8 (1.36%) YAML
15 6 (1.02%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.71%) PKI
2 28 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.42%) Data Centre
4 25 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.55%) Client/Server
7 14 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.19%) Smart Meter
10 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.51%) Replication
13 2 (0.34%) CCTV
13 2 (0.34%) Clustering
13 2 (0.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 2 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 121 (20.58%) Windows
2 93 (15.82%) Linux
3 77 (13.10%) Windows Server
4 40 (6.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 39 (6.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (5.27%) Windows 10
7 25 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (2.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (2.21%) Windows XP
10 6 (1.02%) Unix
11 5 (0.85%) Solaris
11 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.68%) Android
12 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.68%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (41.33%) DevOps
2 147 (25.00%) Agile
3 93 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (15.31%) CI/CD
5 63 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (10.20%) Analytics
7 52 (8.84%) Test Automation
8 47 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 46 (7.82%) Migration
10 45 (7.65%) Microservices
11 44 (7.48%) Cryptography
12 43 (7.31%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (7.31%) ITIL
13 42 (7.14%) Key Management
14 36 (6.12%) Containerisation
14 36 (6.12%) Project Management
15 35 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (5.95%) Scrum
16 34 (5.78%) Full Stack Development
17 33 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (14.12%) Python
2 82 (13.95%) SQL
3 80 (13.61%) PowerShell
4 75 (12.76%) C#
5 31 (5.27%) JavaScript
5 31 (5.27%) VBScript
6 29 (4.93%) Java
7 20 (3.40%) VB
8 18 (3.06%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.89%) Bicep
9 17 (2.89%) C
10 13 (2.21%) Bash
11 10 (1.70%) C++
12 9 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.36%) PHP
14 7 (1.19%) TypeScript
15 6 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.85%) Scala
16 5 (0.85%) X++
17 4 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 176 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 122 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 116 (19.73%) Degree
4 101 (17.18%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.89%) CCNP
8 16 (2.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 15 (2.55%) CCNA
9 15 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.68%) CISSP
12 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.68%) MCSE
12 4 (0.68%) PMP
13 3 (0.51%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.51%) MCITP
14 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.72%) QA
2 9 (1.53%) GDPR
3 8 (1.36%) SLA
4 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.02%) NIST
5 6 (1.02%) PMO
6 5 (0.85%) NCSC
7 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) GxP
8 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 164 (27.89%) Active Directory
2 55 (9.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.78%) Docker
4 26 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.89%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (2.21%) vSphere
9 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.34%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 51 (8.67%) Terraform
3 46 (7.82%) SCCM
4 36 (6.12%) Ansible
4 36 (6.12%) WSUS
5 34 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (5.10%) SCOM
7 18 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (2.72%) vCenter Server
9 13 (2.21%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (2.21%) NetBackup
10 12 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (2.04%) Podman
11 11 (1.87%) Istio
12 7 (1.19%) Grafana
12 7 (1.19%) Rancher
13 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.51%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.51%) SELinux
Vendors
1 172 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.61%) VMware
3 53 (9.01%) Oracle
4 29 (4.93%) Cisco
5 19 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 18 (3.06%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.72%) Databricks
7 16 (2.72%) Veeam
8 15 (2.55%) Dell
8 15 (2.55%) Google
8 15 (2.55%) HP
9 14 (2.38%) EMC
9 14 (2.38%) Symantec
10 13 (2.21%) 3PAR
10 13 (2.21%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (2.21%) Juniper
10 13 (2.21%) SAP
11 9 (1.53%) Citrix
12 7 (1.19%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.19%) SolarWinds