Azure Batch Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Batch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Azure Batch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Batch 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 340 455 610
Rank change year-on-year +115 +155 -110
Contract jobs citing Azure Batch 6 10 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.041% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.11% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £521 £474 £526
25th Percentile £542 £558 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £617 £713 £725
90th Percentile £637 - -
UK median daily rate £581 £544 £625
% change year-on-year +6.90% -13.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Batch 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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,363 9,483 18,190
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.68% 39.25% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,078 13,604
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 132 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.04
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +34.19% +4.22%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -43.53% +69.64% +1.82%

Azure Batch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Batch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Batch trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Batch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Batch.

Azure Batch daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Batch
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Batch over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Azure Batch daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Batch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Power Automate
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (83.33%) PowerApps
3 4 (66.67%) Azure API Management
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Storage
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (66.67%) OLTP
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Research Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Research Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) API Management
1 4 (66.67%) BDD
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) OWASP
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Fortran
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware