Azure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,193 3,681 4,205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.55% 15.29% 13.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.10% 45.89% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 2,805 3,199
10th Percentile £300 £350 £319
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 64 42
10th Percentile £17.79 £17.73 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.61 £21.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £59.90 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.53% +29.32% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.78 £70.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,469 8,022 9,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.30% 33.32% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,856 5,947 7,268
10th Percentile £213 £240 £206
25th Percentile £375 £408 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 231 290
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.69 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK excluding London 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
South East -3 588 £550 -1.74% 532
North of England -5 514 £500 -4.76% 666
South West -5 362 £500 -9.09% 318
Midlands -6 313 £525 +9.38% 452
North West -9 290 £500 -4.76% 372
Scotland +1 250 £475 -6.86% 166
West Midlands -3 233 £550 +7.84% 278
Yorkshire -1 196 £475 -13.64% 215
East of England -23 91 £458 -3.68% 192
Wales +4 77 £500 - 93
East Midlands -4 77 £469 +4.17% 173
North East +2 34 £533 -11.25% 85
Northern Ireland +13 21 £563 +32.35% 44
Isle of Man - 5 £388 - 1
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 178 (8.12%) SharePoint
2 139 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (3.92%) Confluence
4 35 (1.60%) SharePoint Server
5 24 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.78%) Apache
7 15 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.64%) CMS
9 13 (0.59%) IIS
10 9 (0.41%) SAS
11 8 (0.36%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.18%) nginx
14 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.14%) Drupal
14 3 (0.14%) Kentico
14 3 (0.14%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.36%) Sketch
5 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 12 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.36%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.23%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.091%) Maximo
9 2 (0.091%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.091%) SAP IS-U
9 2 (0.091%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.046%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 501 (22.85%) AWS
2 419 (19.11%) Azure DevOps
3 356 (16.23%) Microsoft 365
4 271 (12.36%) Power Platform
5 242 (11.04%) Entra ID
6 153 (6.98%) GCP
7 136 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 102 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
9 88 (4.01%) Serverless
10 82 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
11 77 (3.51%) SaaS
12 75 (3.42%) PaaS
13 71 (3.24%) GitHub
14 70 (3.19%) IaaS
15 66 (3.01%) Azure Functions
16 59 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
16 59 (2.69%) Power Automate
17 57 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 54 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
19 53 (2.42%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 217 (9.90%) Firewall
2 121 (5.52%) DNS
3 89 (4.06%) VPN
4 59 (2.69%) Network Security
4 59 (2.69%) WAN
5 58 (2.64%) DHCP
6 54 (2.46%) SAN
6 54 (2.46%) SSL
7 53 (2.42%) LAN
8 48 (2.19%) BGP
9 37 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.87%) Wireless
11 18 (0.82%) OSPF
11 18 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.64%) VLAN
12 14 (0.64%) Wireshark
13 13 (0.59%) Intranet
14 10 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (0.46%) NetScaler
15 9 (0.41%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (8.30%) Power BI
2 156 (7.11%) SQL Server
3 84 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (2.74%) Data Lake
4 60 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 57 (2.60%) MySQL
6 56 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 53 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (2.19%) NoSQL
8 48 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.32%) Tableau
11 25 (1.14%) Big Data
12 23 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 18 (0.82%) Redis
16 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 14 (0.64%) GIS
18 10 (0.46%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 171 (7.80%) JIRA
2 116 (5.29%) Git
3 70 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.46%) GitLab
4 54 (2.46%) Selenium
5 29 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 28 (1.28%) Visual Studio
7 21 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 20 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.82%) Postman
10 13 (0.59%) Artifactory
10 13 (0.59%) NUnit
11 12 (0.55%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.50%) Maven
12 11 (0.50%) Subversion
13 10 (0.46%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.41%) Hudson
14 9 (0.41%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 566 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 236 (10.76%) Finance
3 204 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 49 (2.23%) Banking
5 49 (2.23%) Manufacturing
6 44 (2.01%) Retail
7 41 (1.87%) Legal
8 33 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 31 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (1.37%) Marketing
11 29 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.23%) Law
12 27 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (0.68%) Electronics
15 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.46%) Local Government
16 10 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 351 (16.01%) Architect
2 327 (14.91%) Developer
3 181 (8.25%) Analyst
4 177 (8.07%) Senior
5 146 (6.66%) Azure Engineer
6 137 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 123 (5.61%) Lead
8 116 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 95 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (3.74%) Support Engineer
11 77 (3.51%) Consultant
12 75 (3.42%) Project Manager
13 69 (3.15%) .NET Developer
14 63 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 58 (2.64%) Administrator
16 55 (2.51%) Azure Developer
17 54 (2.46%) Azure Architect
18 51 (2.33%) Technical Architect
19 45 (2.05%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (9.03%) .NET
2 90 (4.10%) React
3 68 (3.10%) Web Services
4 62 (2.83%) AngularJS
5 54 (2.46%) REST
6 47 (2.14%) CSS
7 46 (2.10%) ARM Templates
7 46 (2.10%) HTML
8 39 (1.78%) .NET Core
8 39 (1.78%) RESTful
8 39 (1.78%) XML
9 38 (1.73%) JSON
10 37 (1.69%) Node.js
11 36 (1.64%) .NET Framework
12 29 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
12 29 (1.32%) Kafka
12 29 (1.32%) YAML
13 26 (1.19%) Spring
14 25 (1.14%) ASP.NET
15 24 (1.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.20%) PKI
2 87 (3.97%) Product Ownership
2 87 (3.97%) Public Cloud
3 65 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 53 (2.42%) Private Cloud
5 45 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 45 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 31 (1.41%) NHS
9 29 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.23%) Client/Server
11 27 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.09%) Replication
13 23 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
16 17 (0.78%) Clustering
17 15 (0.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 441 (20.11%) Windows
2 219 (9.99%) Linux
3 189 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 113 (5.15%) Windows 10
5 67 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 65 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 46 (2.10%) Unix
8 40 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 35 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 33 (1.50%) Apple iOS
11 30 (1.37%) Mac OS
12 26 (1.19%) Android
13 18 (0.82%) VMS
14 15 (0.68%) Windows XP
15 9 (0.41%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
17 7 (0.32%) Solaris
18 6 (0.27%) AIX
18 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
18 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (32.51%) DevOps
2 520 (23.71%) Agile
3 311 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
4 268 (12.22%) CI/CD
5 252 (11.49%) Migration
6 197 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
7 183 (8.34%) ITIL
8 180 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 177 (8.07%) Analytics
10 167 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 141 (6.43%) Project Management
12 136 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 135 (6.16%) Cybersecurity
14 132 (6.02%) Scrum
15 120 (5.47%) Test Automation
16 111 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 110 (5.02%) Service Management
18 107 (4.88%) Data Modelling
19 106 (4.83%) Roadmaps
20 103 (4.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 325 (14.82%) SQL
2 272 (12.40%) Python
3 257 (11.72%) PowerShell
4 213 (9.71%) C#
5 115 (5.24%) Java
6 113 (5.15%) JavaScript
7 64 (2.92%) Bash
8 53 (2.42%) TypeScript
9 42 (1.92%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.82%) C
11 37 (1.69%) Bicep
12 34 (1.55%) PHP
13 33 (1.50%) VBScript
14 29 (1.32%) Scala
15 21 (0.96%) C++
16 20 (0.91%) VB
17 18 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.73%) Go
18 16 (0.73%) PL/SQL
19 14 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 460 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 308 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 242 (11.04%) Degree
4 207 (9.44%) DV Cleared
5 79 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 55 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 54 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.60%) CCNA
10 30 (1.37%) CCNP
10 30 (1.37%) CISSP
11 26 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 16 (0.73%) CISM
13 16 (0.73%) MCSE
14 15 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.64%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.52%) QA
2 39 (1.78%) Government Security Classifications
2 39 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.14%) NIST
5 24 (1.09%) SLA
6 17 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
7 16 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.73%) GDPR
7 16 (0.73%) NCSC
8 13 (0.59%) PMO
9 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.14%) COBIT
11 3 (0.14%) GRC
11 3 (0.14%) WCAG
12 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 437 (19.93%) Active Directory
2 138 (6.29%) Docker
3 124 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 77 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 50 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (1.00%) vSphere
8 12 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.41%) XenApp
9 9 (0.41%) XenDesktop
10 8 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 8 (0.36%) Terminal Services
10 8 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.18%) GPFS
13 4 (0.18%) NFS
13 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 206 (9.39%) Terraform
2 191 (8.71%) Kubernetes
3 151 (6.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 118 (5.38%) Ansible
5 96 (4.38%) SCCM
6 66 (3.01%) SCOM
7 54 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (1.82%) Grafana
9 38 (1.73%) Prometheus
10 37 (1.69%) WSUS
11 31 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (1.41%) vCenter Server
12 27 (1.23%) Puppet
13 24 (1.09%) Progress Chef
14 18 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
15 14 (0.64%) Argo
16 13 (0.59%) EMC NetWorker
16 13 (0.59%) NetBackup
17 12 (0.55%) Nagios
17 12 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 723 (32.97%) Microsoft
2 201 (9.17%) VMware
3 111 (5.06%) Oracle
4 98 (4.47%) Databricks
5 73 (3.33%) Cisco
6 63 (2.87%) Atlassian
7 54 (2.46%) Citrix
8 52 (2.37%) Google
9 46 (2.10%) SAP
10 42 (1.92%) Palo Alto
11 38 (1.73%) Veeam
12 37 (1.69%) F5
13 36 (1.64%) Splunk
14 34 (1.55%) ServiceNow
15 26 (1.19%) HP
15 26 (1.19%) Red Hat
16 25 (1.14%) CyberArk
17 23 (1.05%) Dell
18 20 (0.91%) EMC
18 20 (0.91%) Okta