Azure Contracts

Microsoft Azure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 5,399 7,130 13,361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 14.76% 15.12% 16.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.10% 42.66% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 5,217 9,796
10th Percentile £338 £360 £390
25th Percentile £425 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.24% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 88 99
10th Percentile £19.85 £17.74 £15.74
25th Percentile £23.80 £25.56 £20.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £46.18 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% -9.45% -15.25%
75th Percentile £63.56 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year - -8.55% -18.74%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,824 16,712 31,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.06% 35.43% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,460 11,980 22,313
10th Percentile £313 £300 £348
25th Percentile £420 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 324 390
10th Percentile £18.38 £14.71 £13.41
25th Percentile £23.80 £17.75 £15.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.15 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% +42.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £64.73 £60.47 £52.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.17 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.47 £22.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +53.18% +15.38% +5.41%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 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
England 0 4,691 £538 -2.27% 2,428
London -1 2,763 £550 -4.35% 800
UK excluding London 0 2,013 £500 -4.53% 1,763
Work from Home -1 1,975 £525 - 1,512
South East +5 634 £525 -6.67% 416
North of England -3 466 £500 - 524
Midlands -4 306 £525 +10.53% 320
North West -6 259 £500 +1.01% 277
South West -5 252 £513 -8.89% 202
West Midlands -6 214 £550 +10.00% 218
Scotland -2 211 £450 -5.71% 98
Yorkshire -1 181 £505 -3.81% 164
East of England +3 110 £350 -25.53% 172
East Midlands +1 91 £475 +11.76% 102
Wales -2 57 £525 +23.53% 59
North East -5 32 £350 -22.22% 87
Northern Ireland -4 13 £600 +41.18% 29
Isle of Man -3 2 - - 2

Azure
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
1 279 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 215 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 158 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 139 (2.57%) Confluence
5 91 (1.69%) Apache
6 68 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
7 28 (0.52%) CMS
8 27 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 26 (0.48%) IIS
10 25 (0.46%) SAS
11 11 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 11 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
13 9 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.17%) Skype for Business
14 8 (0.15%) Drupal
14 8 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
15 6 (0.11%) nginx
15 6 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 83 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.15%) Trello
8 6 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 6 (0.11%) Revit
8 6 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.056%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.019%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 125 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.30%) SAP GTS
3 14 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.19%) Maximo
5 10 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.11%) Endur
8 6 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.074%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.074%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.056%) SimCorp Dimension
11 2 (0.037%) OpenLink RightAngle
11 2 (0.037%) Oracle iProcurement
11 2 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,389 (25.73%) AWS
2 945 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
3 746 (13.82%) GCP
4 678 (12.56%) Microsoft 365
5 639 (11.84%) Power Platform
6 540 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 310 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 306 (5.67%) Serverless
9 290 (5.37%) Dynamics 365
10 284 (5.26%) GitHub
11 222 (4.11%) Azure Functions
11 222 (4.11%) PaaS
12 211 (3.91%) PowerApps
13 205 (3.80%) SaaS
14 195 (3.61%) Power Automate
15 192 (3.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 184 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
17 182 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 182 (3.37%) IaaS
18 173 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 356 (6.59%) Firewall
2 207 (3.83%) DNS
3 183 (3.39%) VPN
4 153 (2.83%) Network Security
5 135 (2.50%) WAN
6 132 (2.44%) DHCP
7 125 (2.32%) TCP/IP
8 84 (1.56%) LAN
9 80 (1.48%) BGP
10 76 (1.41%) HTTP
11 64 (1.19%) SD-WAN
12 63 (1.17%) OSPF
13 61 (1.13%) SSL
14 53 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
15 52 (0.96%) VLAN
16 50 (0.93%) Wireless
17 45 (0.83%) MPLS
18 44 (0.81%) SAN
19 40 (0.74%) Internet
20 39 (0.72%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 522 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 445 (8.24%) Power BI
3 278 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 263 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 253 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 252 (4.67%) NoSQL
7 190 (3.52%) Big Data
8 165 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
9 128 (2.37%) Relational Database
10 114 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 98 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 94 (1.74%) Tableau
13 90 (1.67%) MySQL
14 69 (1.28%) Hadoop
15 62 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
16 59 (1.09%) Redis
17 56 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 53 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
19 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
20 37 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 461 (8.54%) Git
2 295 (5.46%) JIRA
3 196 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 181 (3.35%) GitLab
5 106 (1.96%) Selenium
6 90 (1.67%) Visual Studio
7 49 (0.91%) Postman
8 48 (0.89%) Maven
9 39 (0.72%) Android Studio
9 39 (0.72%) SpecFlow
10 38 (0.70%) TeamCity
11 35 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 35 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 33 (0.61%) CircleCI
13 32 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
14 30 (0.56%) SonarQube
14 30 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
15 29 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 29 (0.54%) JUnit
16 25 (0.46%) JMeter
General
1 1,248 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 1,028 (19.04%) Finance
3 575 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 507 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 343 (6.35%) Banking
6 143 (2.65%) Marketing
7 127 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 103 (1.91%) Front Office
9 99 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 95 (1.76%) Legal
11 93 (1.72%) Retail
12 71 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (1.20%) Back Office
13 65 (1.20%) Electronics
14 56 (1.04%) Investment Banking
15 47 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 46 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 45 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
18 42 (0.78%) Financial Institution
19 41 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,060 (19.63%) Developer
2 786 (14.56%) Architect
3 567 (10.50%) Azure Engineer
4 563 (10.43%) Senior
5 350 (6.48%) Lead
6 345 (6.39%) Analyst
6 345 (6.39%) Data Engineer
7 299 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 272 (5.04%) Consultant
9 232 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 193 (3.57%) .NET Developer
11 171 (3.17%) Azure Architect
12 168 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 162 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 150 (2.78%) Azure Developer
14 150 (2.78%) Senior Developer
15 144 (2.67%) Support Engineer
16 142 (2.63%) Security Engineer
17 140 (2.59%) Project Manager
18 133 (2.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 675 (12.50%) .NET
2 287 (5.32%) React
3 252 (4.67%) Kafka
4 249 (4.61%) HTML
5 225 (4.17%) CSS
6 203 (3.76%) AngularJS
7 191 (3.54%) RESTful
8 181 (3.35%) REST
9 170 (3.15%) .NET Core
10 165 (3.06%) .NET Framework
11 155 (2.87%) PySpark
12 140 (2.59%) XML
13 126 (2.33%) Node.js
14 117 (2.17%) ASP.NET
15 116 (2.15%) Web Services
16 105 (1.94%) Spring
17 98 (1.82%) JSON
18 92 (1.70%) Spring Boot
19 91 (1.69%) YAML
20 87 (1.61%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 215 (3.98%) Product Ownership
2 180 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 142 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 129 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 122 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 105 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 98 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 91 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 81 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 80 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 71 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 70 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 64 (1.19%) Security Posture
14 63 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 60 (1.11%) Algorithms
15 60 (1.11%) Data Structures
16 56 (1.04%) Replication
17 53 (0.98%) PKI
18 44 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
18 44 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 707 (13.10%) Windows
2 389 (7.21%) Linux
3 232 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 184 (3.41%) Windows 10
5 120 (2.22%) Unix
6 83 (1.54%) Android
7 58 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 53 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 52 (0.96%) Apple iOS
10 45 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
11 34 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 28 (0.52%) VMS
13 23 (0.43%) CentOS
14 20 (0.37%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.31%) Mac OS
15 17 (0.31%) Solaris
16 8 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
17 7 (0.13%) Mac OS X
17 7 (0.13%) SUSE
17 7 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,683 (31.17%) DevOps
2 1,411 (26.13%) Agile
3 1,031 (19.10%) CI/CD
4 869 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
5 618 (11.45%) Migration
6 534 (9.89%) Analytics
7 527 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
8 482 (8.93%) Scrum
9 460 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 398 (7.37%) Test Automation
11 396 (7.33%) Microservices
12 384 (7.11%) ETL
13 369 (6.83%) Data Modelling
14 332 (6.15%) Computer Science
15 328 (6.08%) Containerisation
16 327 (6.06%) Software Engineering
16 327 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
17 302 (5.59%) Project Management
18 293 (5.43%) ITIL
19 283 (5.24%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (22.54%) SQL
2 1,065 (19.73%) Python
3 651 (12.06%) C#
4 510 (9.45%) Java
5 502 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 409 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 190 (3.52%) TypeScript
8 158 (2.93%) Bash
9 118 (2.19%) Bicep
10 88 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 81 (1.50%) Scala
12 76 (1.41%) R
13 64 (1.19%) C++
14 63 (1.17%) Kotlin
15 61 (1.13%) Perl
16 60 (1.11%) Go
17 52 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 47 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 45 (0.83%) Shell Script
20 42 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 784 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 628 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 571 (10.58%) Degree
4 258 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 215 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 172 (3.19%) DV Cleared
7 148 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 104 (1.93%) CISSP
9 97 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 81 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 67 (1.24%) AWS Certification
12 55 (1.02%) CISM
13 51 (0.94%) CCNP
14 47 (0.87%) CCNA
15 44 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
16 32 (0.59%) MCSE
17 30 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.48%) PMI Certification
19 25 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
20 24 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 148 (2.74%) QA
3 103 (1.91%) GDPR
4 100 (1.85%) NIST
5 89 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 69 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 50 (0.93%) SLA
9 27 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 27 (0.50%) NCSC
10 21 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.35%) PMO
12 18 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 17 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.28%) GRC
15 13 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
16 11 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.20%) COBIT
17 10 (0.19%) WCAG
18 8 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 711 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 492 (9.11%) Docker
3 206 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 124 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 82 (1.52%) Hyper-V
7 47 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 44 (0.81%) vSphere
9 30 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 19 (0.35%) NFS
11 18 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
12 17 (0.31%) Firmware
13 15 (0.28%) HDFS
14 13 (0.24%) XenApp
15 12 (0.22%) BitLocker
15 12 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.20%) XenDesktop
17 9 (0.17%) KVM
18 8 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 6 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 691 (12.80%) Kubernetes
2 651 (12.06%) Terraform
3 327 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 257 (4.76%) Ansible
5 141 (2.61%) SCCM
6 87 (1.61%) Grafana
7 83 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 75 (1.39%) Prometheus
9 54 (1.00%) Puppet
10 40 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 35 (0.65%) WSUS
12 34 (0.63%) Progress Chef
13 33 (0.61%) SCOM
14 27 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 27 (0.50%) vCenter Server
15 19 (0.35%) Kibana
15 19 (0.35%) Nessus
16 18 (0.33%) logstash
17 14 (0.26%) Tivoli
18 13 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,695 (31.39%) Microsoft
2 371 (6.87%) Databricks
3 313 (5.80%) Google
4 310 (5.74%) VMware
5 267 (4.95%) Oracle
6 212 (3.93%) Cisco
7 166 (3.07%) SAP
8 118 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 112 (2.07%) Palo Alto
10 100 (1.85%) Citrix
11 93 (1.72%) Fortinet
12 78 (1.44%) Salesforce
13 71 (1.32%) CheckPoint
13 71 (1.32%) F5
14 69 (1.28%) Red Hat
15 65 (1.20%) IBM
15 65 (1.20%) Splunk
16 58 (1.07%) Apple
17 55 (1.02%) CyberArk
18 52 (0.96%) Zscaler