Azure Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 9 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 363 572 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 11.19% 16.92% 11.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.21% 51.12% 39.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 479 325
10th Percentile £214 £400 £330
25th Percentile £425 £455 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +8.29% +7.89%
75th Percentile £594 £669 £594
90th Percentile £681 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 2
10th Percentile - £22.07 £22.70
25th Percentile - £57.27 £26.76
Median hourly rate - £60.35 £34.14
Median % change year-on-year - +76.80% -33.72%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £42.14
90th Percentile - - £46.57
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -44.44% +36.22% -14.35%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 803 1,119 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.75% 33.10% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 898 862
10th Percentile £213 £288 £250
25th Percentile £388 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £655 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 60 21
10th Percentile £12.70 £17.18 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £29.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £56.25 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +161.63% -55.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the South West

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +1 121 £500 -2.44% 100
Wiltshire -13 92 £500 -16.67% 36
Gloucestershire +8 77 £550 - 59
Devon +4 21 £544 +81.24% 46
Dorset -6 18 £185 -64.80% 25
Somerset -13 12 £463 -31.48% 38
Cornwall -5 1 £225 -59.64% 5
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 70 (19.28%) SharePoint
2 40 (11.02%) Confluence
3 30 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (7.99%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (1.65%) Apache
6 5 (1.38%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.10%) CMS
8 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.28%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.28%) Mendix
9 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.28%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (19.83%) AWS
2 67 (18.46%) Power Platform
3 62 (17.08%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (12.67%) Entra ID
6 34 (9.37%) Azure Stack
7 23 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (5.79%) PaaS
9 18 (4.96%) GCP
10 15 (4.13%) Power Automate
10 15 (4.13%) PowerApps
11 14 (3.86%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.58%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (3.03%) OneDrive
14 10 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (2.48%) GitHub
15 9 (2.48%) IaaS
16 7 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 52 (14.33%) Firewall
2 29 (7.99%) BGP
3 13 (3.58%) WAN
4 12 (3.31%) LAN
4 12 (3.31%) VPN
5 11 (3.03%) DNS
6 9 (2.48%) Intranet
7 8 (2.20%) SAN
8 7 (1.93%) FTP
9 5 (1.38%) HTTP
10 4 (1.10%) DHCP
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.28%) 5G
12 1 (0.28%) MQTT
12 1 (0.28%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.67%) Power BI
2 28 (7.71%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.86%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.86%) Tableau
5 12 (3.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 12 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.38%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.38%) Triplestore
10 4 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.83%) GIS
12 2 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.55%) Metadata
12 2 (0.55%) OLAP
12 2 (0.55%) OLTP
13 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 51 (14.05%) JIRA
2 13 (3.58%) Git
2 13 (3.58%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.20%) Bitbucket
3 8 (2.20%) Postman
3 8 (2.20%) SonarQube
3 8 (2.20%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.93%) GitLab
5 6 (1.65%) Artifactory
5 6 (1.65%) Selenium
6 5 (1.38%) NUnit
7 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.10%) JUnit
7 4 (1.10%) Maven
8 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.55%) Snyk
10 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.28%) git-flow
10 1 (0.28%) MSI
10 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 93 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 45 (12.40%) Public Sector
3 35 (9.64%) Finance
4 18 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 15 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.58%) Electronics
8 13 (3.58%) Marketing
9 11 (3.03%) Legal
10 10 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Local Government
12 3 (0.83%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.55%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Retail
14 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Law
14 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (21.21%) Architect
2 52 (14.33%) Developer
3 43 (11.85%) Analyst
4 24 (6.61%) Data Engineer
5 22 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.23%) Senior
9 17 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.13%) Microsoft Engineer
10 15 (4.13%) Technical Architect
11 12 (3.31%) Infrastructure Technician
12 11 (3.03%) Consultant
13 10 (2.75%) Administrator
13 10 (2.75%) Azure Architect
13 10 (2.75%) SOC Analyst
14 9 (2.48%) SharePoint Developer
14 9 (2.48%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.20%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.74%) .NET
2 22 (6.06%) REST
3 19 (5.23%) AngularJS
4 18 (4.96%) CSS
5 13 (3.58%) React
6 12 (3.31%) HTML
7 10 (2.75%) GraphQL
7 10 (2.75%) Spring
8 8 (2.20%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.93%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.93%) YAML
10 6 (1.65%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.65%) ModSecurity
11 5 (1.38%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.38%) Apache Jena
11 5 (1.38%) Blazor
11 5 (1.38%) Kafka
11 5 (1.38%) Middleware
11 5 (1.38%) Playwright
11 5 (1.38%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.74%) Private Cloud
2 23 (6.34%) Public Cloud
3 14 (3.86%) Security Posture
4 12 (3.31%) NHS
5 10 (2.75%) Replication
6 9 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.93%) PKI
9 6 (1.65%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.65%) IoT
10 5 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.10%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 100 (27.55%) Windows
2 36 (9.92%) Linux
3 27 (7.44%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.86%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.75%) VMS
5 10 (2.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (1.93%) Android
6 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.65%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.55%) Unix
8 2 (0.55%) Windows 2000
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.55%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (25.34%) DevOps
2 83 (22.87%) Agile
3 58 (15.98%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (14.33%) ITIL
5 50 (13.77%) CI/CD
6 43 (11.85%) Network Management
7 42 (11.57%) Migration
8 38 (10.47%) Service Management
9 35 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (8.26%) Capacity Management
10 30 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (8.26%) Security Monitoring
11 29 (7.99%) ITSM
12 28 (7.71%) Project Management
13 27 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (6.89%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (6.61%) Architectural Patterns
16 23 (6.34%) Data Modelling
16 23 (6.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (5.79%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.77%) SQL
2 38 (10.47%) Python
3 37 (10.19%) PowerShell
4 34 (9.37%) C#
5 30 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.41%) C
7 15 (4.13%) Java
7 15 (4.13%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.58%) Bash
9 12 (3.31%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.65%) Bicep
11 5 (1.38%) SPARQL
12 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) Go
13 1 (0.28%) Julia
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 166 (45.73%) Security Cleared
2 86 (23.69%) SC Cleared
3 80 (22.04%) DV Cleared
4 27 (7.44%) Degree
5 11 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.10%) CISSP
9 4 (1.10%) HND
9 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.83%) CISM
11 2 (0.55%) CEH
11 2 (0.55%) CISA
11 2 (0.55%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.55%) MCP
11 2 (0.55%) SANS
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.37%) QA
2 33 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
3 8 (2.20%) NCSC
4 7 (1.93%) NIST
5 6 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.55%) GDPR
7 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.55%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) COSO
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (14.33%) Active Directory
2 38 (10.47%) Docker
3 20 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.58%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.31%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.38%) vSphere
10 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.28%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (9.37%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.82%) Terraform
3 23 (6.34%) Ansible
4 21 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (5.51%) SCOM
6 15 (4.13%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.48%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.93%) SCCM
9 6 (1.65%) Grafana
9 6 (1.65%) OPNET
9 6 (1.65%) Prometheus
10 5 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.38%) PowerCLI
11 4 (1.10%) Argo
11 4 (1.10%) Puppet
11 4 (1.10%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (0.83%) WSUS
13 2 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.55%) SCDPM
13 2 (0.55%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 146 (40.22%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.85%) VMware
3 36 (9.92%) Atlassian
4 18 (4.96%) Veeam
5 16 (4.41%) SAP
6 14 (3.86%) Cisco
7 12 (3.31%) CA
8 11 (3.03%) Databricks
9 9 (2.48%) Citrix
9 9 (2.48%) Splunk
10 8 (2.20%) Google
10 8 (2.20%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.65%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.65%) Oracle
12 5 (1.38%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.10%) Dell
14 3 (0.83%) Okta
14 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 2 (0.55%) Juniper
15 2 (0.55%) Mapbox