Azure Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 634 627 1,068
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 15.19% 11.48% 13.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.57% 39.71% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 495 813
10th Percentile £350 £400 £325
25th Percentile £418 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £651 £718 £700
England median daily rate £538 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.34% +8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 9
10th Percentile £18.30 £19.84 -
25th Percentile £27.75 £27.00 £11.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +61.54% -48.41%
75th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.38 £70.40 £63.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year -24.21% -16.04% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,206 1,579 2,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.89% 28.91% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 1,106 1,863
10th Percentile £262 £213 £207
25th Percentile £405 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £675
England median daily rate £534 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -3.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 48 51
10th Percentile £19.45 £16.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £23.44 £19.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.46% +27.38% -50.44%
75th Percentile £60.95 £52.12 £23.63
90th Percentile £64.73 £70.60 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £28.61 £22.50
% change year-on-year +24.08% +27.16% +12.50%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +4 395 £540 -6.09% 145
Berkshire +2 291 £585 +0.86% 57
Hampshire -1 110 £500 -13.04% 102
Buckinghamshire +16 94 £425 -20.93% 58
Surrey +9 58 £495 -5.71% 45
West Sussex +14 30 £560 -17.65% 20
Kent 0 26 £615 +17.14% 35
East Sussex +7 23 £500 +11.11% 24
Oxfordshire +3 10 £450 -20.88% 30
Sussex - 2 - - 2
Azure
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 42 (6.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.42%) Apache
4 9 (1.42%) CMS
5 8 (1.26%) Confluence
6 7 (1.10%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.32%) IIS
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.26%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.16%) Relativity
5 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 131 (20.66%) AWS
2 117 (18.45%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
4 91 (14.35%) Entra ID
5 74 (11.67%) Serverless
6 72 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 72 (11.36%) Power Platform
7 67 (10.57%) Azure Functions
8 66 (10.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 63 (9.94%) Azure Monitor
10 53 (8.36%) GCP
11 36 (5.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 30 (4.73%) OCI
13 29 (4.57%) SaaS
14 27 (4.26%) Azure API Management
15 26 (4.10%) PowerApps
16 23 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
17 22 (3.47%) Azure Storage
17 22 (3.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.15%) Firewall
2 31 (4.89%) Network Security
2 31 (4.89%) VPN
3 28 (4.42%) DNS
4 25 (3.94%) DHCP
5 20 (3.15%) TCP/IP
6 18 (2.84%) MPLS
6 18 (2.84%) WAN
7 17 (2.68%) BGP
7 17 (2.68%) SSL
8 13 (2.05%) VLAN
9 11 (1.74%) VSAN
10 9 (1.42%) BIG-IP
11 8 (1.26%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (1.26%) LAN
11 8 (1.26%) SAN
11 8 (1.26%) Wireless
12 6 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (0.95%) HTTP
12 6 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.36%) SQL Server
2 46 (7.26%) Power BI
3 31 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (2.37%) Big Data
8 13 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 13 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.74%) Redis
10 10 (1.58%) MySQL
10 10 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.10%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.79%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.79%) Power Query
13 5 (0.79%) Tableau
14 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.63%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 46 (7.26%) Git
2 39 (6.15%) JIRA
2 39 (6.15%) Selenium
3 16 (2.52%) Visual Studio
4 9 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (1.10%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.10%) GitLab
6 7 (1.10%) Postman
7 6 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.95%) JMeter
7 6 (0.95%) MSBuild
7 6 (0.95%) Vite
8 5 (0.79%) ERwin
9 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.63%) Maven
9 4 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.63%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.47%) git-flow
10 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 171 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 103 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (9.62%) Finance
4 31 (4.89%) Public Sector
5 24 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 22 (3.47%) Legal
7 8 (1.26%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.26%) Marketing
8 6 (0.95%) Billing
8 6 (0.95%) Electronics
8 6 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.63%) Banking
10 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.47%) Automotive
11 3 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 127 (20.03%) Developer
2 82 (12.93%) Architect
3 79 (12.46%) Senior
4 65 (10.25%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (9.46%) Analyst
6 51 (8.04%) Lead
7 47 (7.41%) Azure Developer
8 45 (7.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 41 (6.47%) Support Engineer
10 32 (5.05%) Data Engineer
11 29 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (4.26%) Active Directory Engineer
12 27 (4.26%) Consultant
13 26 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (3.94%) Active Directory Support
14 25 (3.94%) Active Directory Support Engineer
14 25 (3.94%) Azure Architect
15 22 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
15 22 (3.47%) Technical Architect
16 21 (3.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (9.15%) .NET
2 39 (6.15%) React
3 31 (4.89%) CSS
4 27 (4.26%) REST
5 25 (3.94%) HTML
6 24 (3.79%) Node.js
7 23 (3.63%) ADO
8 22 (3.47%) ASP.NET
9 20 (3.15%) RESTful
10 19 (3.00%) SOAP
11 17 (2.68%) AngularJS
11 17 (2.68%) SAML
11 17 (2.68%) XML
12 16 (2.52%) .NET Framework
12 16 (2.52%) ARM Templates
12 16 (2.52%) GraphQL
12 16 (2.52%) OpenID
13 15 (2.37%) Kafka
13 15 (2.37%) OAuth
13 15 (2.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.47%) Public Cloud
3 25 (3.94%) PKI
4 20 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.74%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.26%) Smartphone
11 7 (1.10%) CMDB
11 7 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.10%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.10%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.10%) Wiki
12 6 (0.95%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.79%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.79%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 122 (19.24%) Windows
2 71 (11.20%) Linux
3 60 (9.46%) Windows Server
4 53 (8.36%) Windows 10
5 36 (5.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 29 (4.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (3.47%) Unix
8 16 (2.52%) CentOS
9 13 (2.05%) Apple iOS
10 9 (1.42%) Ubuntu
11 7 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.63%) Android
14 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.32%) VMS
15 1 (0.16%) AIX
15 1 (0.16%) Solaris
15 1 (0.16%) SUSE
15 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (32.02%) DevOps
2 168 (26.50%) Agile
3 142 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (19.09%) CI/CD
5 89 (14.04%) Migration
6 69 (10.88%) ITIL
7 68 (10.73%) Microservices
8 66 (10.41%) Scrum
9 60 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 56 (8.83%) ETL
11 55 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
11 55 (8.68%) Test Automation
12 50 (7.89%) SDLC
13 45 (7.10%) Containerisation
14 44 (6.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 43 (6.78%) Analytics
16 40 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
18 33 (5.21%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 135 (21.29%) SQL
2 123 (19.40%) Python
3 68 (10.73%) C#
4 62 (9.78%) PowerShell
5 49 (7.73%) JavaScript
6 45 (7.10%) Java
7 20 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.84%) Bicep
9 15 (2.37%) VBScript
10 12 (1.89%) VB
11 10 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.42%) Perl
12 9 (1.42%) PHP
13 8 (1.26%) Bash
14 7 (1.10%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.95%) R
16 5 (0.79%) C
17 4 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 149 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 116 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 86 (13.56%) DV Cleared
4 65 (10.25%) Degree
5 28 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (3.63%) CCNA
7 21 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 21 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (2.68%) CISSP
9 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.89%) CISM
11 11 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (1.42%) MCSE
13 8 (1.26%) CCNP
14 7 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.47%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.47%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.15%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.37%) SLA
3 14 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.21%) NIST
3 14 (2.21%) QA
4 9 (1.42%) GDPR
4 9 (1.42%) NCSC
5 8 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) COBIT
10 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 128 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 43 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (5.21%) Docker
4 27 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.52%) vSphere
7 12 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.58%) VMware NSX
9 8 (1.26%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.47%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.32%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.32%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.16%) Firmware
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 70 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 48 (7.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 47 (7.41%) Terraform
4 36 (5.68%) Ansible
5 33 (5.21%) SCCM
6 28 (4.42%) WSUS
7 16 (2.52%) SCOM
8 15 (2.37%) vCenter Server
9 14 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (2.05%) Nessus
11 10 (1.58%) FortiGate
12 7 (1.10%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (0.79%) Grafana
14 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.47%) Puppet
16 2 (0.32%) Argo
16 2 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
16 2 (0.32%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 199 (31.39%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.52%) VMware
3 40 (6.31%) Oracle
4 39 (6.15%) Databricks
5 34 (5.36%) Cisco
6 23 (3.63%) Palo Alto
7 20 (3.15%) Google
8 19 (3.00%) Apple
9 16 (2.52%) F5
10 15 (2.37%) Red Hat
11 14 (2.21%) Fortinet
12 11 (1.74%) Citrix
12 11 (1.74%) SAP
12 11 (1.74%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.58%) Genesys
13 10 (1.58%) HP
14 9 (1.42%) Forcepoint
14 9 (1.42%) Juniper
14 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
15 8 (1.26%) CheckPoint