Azure Key Vault Contracts

Microsoft Azure Key Vault
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Key Vault skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Key Vault over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 516 648
Rank change year-on-year +19 +132 -62
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 82 168 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.82% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 109 120
10th Percentile £430 £513 £425
25th Percentile £503 £563 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £594
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.47% +7.95%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £700
90th Percentile £810 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Key Vault is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,976 20,555 33,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.43% 36.46% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,930 14,875 24,662
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 330 390
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%
75th Percentile £42.50 £69.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.12 £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%

Azure Key Vault
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Key Vault as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Key Vault over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Key Vault within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +19 72 £600 -7.69% 18
London +52 53 £675 +3.85% 8
Work from Home +62 27 £555 -14.62% 11
UK excluding London +22 16 £550 -8.33% 12
South East +6 9 £600 -14.29% 4
North of England +14 3 £638 +10.87% 5
Scotland +42 2 £427 - 1
North West +5 2 £625 +6.66% 5
Yorkshire +17 1 £650 +26.83%
South West +7 1 £488 -11.36%
East of England +6 1 £475 +2.70%

Azure Key Vault
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (45.12%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (37.80%) Azure Service Bus
3 31 (37.80%) Entra ID
4 28 (34.15%) Serverless
5 26 (31.71%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (29.27%) Azure Functions
7 23 (28.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 22 (26.83%) Azure API Management
8 22 (26.83%) Azure Storage
9 20 (24.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (24.39%) PaaS
10 18 (21.95%) Azure Logic Apps
10 18 (21.95%) Power Platform
11 15 (18.29%) Power Automate
11 15 (18.29%) PowerApps
12 11 (13.41%) GitHub
13 8 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (8.54%) Azure Batch
14 7 (8.54%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) Firewall
2 5 (6.10%) VPN
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
4 2 (2.44%) Network Security
4 2 (2.44%) WAN
5 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.22%) LAN
5 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (42.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (24.39%) SQL Server
3 19 (23.17%) Data Lake
4 11 (13.41%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (13.41%) NoSQL
4 11 (13.41%) Power BI
5 10 (12.20%) Big Data
6 7 (8.54%) OLTP
7 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.88%) Spark SQL
9 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (2.44%) MySQL
10 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.22%) Metadata
11 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (28.05%) Git
2 10 (12.20%) Postman
3 8 (9.76%) SonarQube
4 7 (8.54%) Visual Studio Team System
5 6 (7.32%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.44%) GitLab
7 1 (1.22%) JIRA
7 1 (1.22%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (42.68%) Finance
2 13 (15.85%) Banking
3 11 (13.41%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.22%) Back Office
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
7 1 (1.22%) Publishing
7 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) Developer
2 17 (20.73%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (19.51%) Architect
4 15 (18.29%) Lead
5 9 (10.98%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Senior
6 8 (9.76%) Azure Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Platform Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Power Platform Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Python Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Azure Architect
7 7 (8.54%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Senior Python Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Designer
9 5 (6.10%) Lead Designer
9 5 (6.10%) React Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Systems Architect
9 5 (6.10%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.27%) .NET
2 23 (28.05%) ARM Templates
3 19 (23.17%) JSON
3 19 (23.17%) XML
4 18 (21.95%) Web Services
5 13 (15.85%) React
6 12 (14.63%) .NET Core
6 12 (14.63%) REST
7 11 (13.41%) .NET Framework
7 11 (13.41%) YAML
8 10 (12.20%) Swagger
9 8 (9.76%) PySpark
10 7 (8.54%) AngularJS
10 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (8.54%) OAuth
11 6 (7.32%) CSS
11 6 (7.32%) Entity Framework
11 6 (7.32%) Node.js
11 6 (7.32%) OpenID
11 6 (7.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.66%) Clustering
3 3 (3.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.66%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.66%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (3.66%) Solar Panel
4 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.44%) PKI
4 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.44%) Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.66%) DevOps
2 41 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (40.24%) Agile
4 23 (28.05%) API Management
5 19 (23.17%) TDD
5 19 (23.17%) Test Automation
6 17 (20.73%) Analytics
6 17 (20.73%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
7 16 (19.51%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.29%) Migration
9 13 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (15.85%) Network Virtualisation
9 13 (15.85%) Scrum
10 12 (14.63%) Microservices
11 11 (13.41%) Continuous Deployment
11 11 (13.41%) Data Migration
12 10 (12.20%) Log Analytics
13 8 (9.76%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 49 (59.76%) SQL
2 39 (47.56%) PowerShell
3 25 (30.49%) C#
3 25 (30.49%) Python
4 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.54%) Bicep
6 6 (7.32%) Java
7 5 (6.10%) Bash
8 4 (4.88%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.44%) Scala
10 1 (1.22%) C
10 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (7.32%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.66%) Degree
3 3 (3.66%) MCITP
3 3 (3.66%) MCTS
3 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.22%) GDPR
2 1 (1.22%) NIST
2 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (36.59%) Active Directory
2 13 (15.85%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (8.54%) Docker
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (26.83%) Terraform
2 9 (10.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.63%) Databricks
3 4 (4.88%) Black Duck
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle
4 3 (3.66%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) BMC
6 1 (1.22%) CA
6 1 (1.22%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.22%) Citrix
6 1 (1.22%) Confluent
6 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.22%) Nintex
6 1 (1.22%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.22%) Remedy
6 1 (1.22%) Skytap