Azure Event Grid Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
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 Event Grid skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Event Grid over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 431 565
Rank change year-on-year +94 +134 -99
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 8 26 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.054% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 45
10th Percentile £413 £463 -
25th Percentile £455 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £480
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +22.40% -3.52%
75th Percentile £575 £722 £660
90th Percentile £598 £785 £708
UK median daily rate £538 £548 £538
% change year-on-year -1.83% +1.86% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Event Grid 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 5,399 9,677 18,392
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.73% 39.46% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,901 7,194 13,748
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £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 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 130 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +2.07%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Event Grid
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Event Grid trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Event Grid
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 Event Grid.

Azure Event Grid daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Event Grid over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Azure Event Grid daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Event Grid
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Twin
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) B2B
4 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) VMware