Azure Storage Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Storage
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 Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 418 557
Rank change year-on-year +108 +139 -125
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 35 36 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 0.37% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 46
10th Percentile £393 £410 £400
25th Percentile £519 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £583 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% +3.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £659
90th Percentile - £800 £766
UK median daily rate £605 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +0.83% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Storage 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 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £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 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
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% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Azure Storage
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Storage trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
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 Storage.

Azure Storage daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Azure Storage daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
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 17 (48.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) CMS
3 1 (2.86%) Drupal
3 1 (2.86%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 17 (48.57%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (48.57%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (22.86%) Azure Functions
4 8 (22.86%) Serverless
5 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (17.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (17.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
7 5 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (11.43%) Azure API Management
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Batch
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (11.43%) Power Automate
8 4 (11.43%) PowerApps
9 3 (8.57%) Azure App Service
9 3 (8.57%) PaaS
10 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (51.43%) Firewall
2 17 (48.57%) DHCP
2 17 (48.57%) DNS
3 2 (5.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
3 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
4 4 (11.43%) OLTP
5 3 (8.57%) Big Data
6 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.71%) Power BI
6 2 (5.71%) Redis
7 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
General
1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Law
3 2 (5.71%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Front Office
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (40.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (40.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (40.00%) Support Specialist
3 11 (31.43%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (60.00%) ARM Templates
2 6 (17.14%) .NET
3 3 (8.57%) .NET Core
3 3 (8.57%) JSON
3 3 (8.57%) Web Services
3 3 (8.57%) XML
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.71%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) PySpark
4 2 (5.71%) pytest
4 2 (5.71%) YAML
5 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.86%) Blazor
5 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.86%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) PKI
1 17 (48.57%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (62.86%) Windows
2 21 (60.00%) Linux
3 19 (54.29%) Windows Server
4 17 (48.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (48.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.71%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Agile
2 24 (68.57%) DevOps
3 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
4 20 (57.14%) Analytics
4 20 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (48.57%) Identity Management
5 17 (48.57%) ITIL
5 17 (48.57%) Log Analytics
5 17 (48.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 17 (48.57%) Privileged Identity Management
5 17 (48.57%) RBAC
5 17 (48.57%) Release Management
5 17 (48.57%) Service Management
6 7 (20.00%) Microservices
6 7 (20.00%) Migration
7 5 (14.29%) API Management
8 4 (11.43%) BDD
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (11.43%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) C#
2 23 (65.71%) PowerShell
3 18 (51.43%) Bicep
4 17 (48.57%) VB
4 17 (48.57%) VBScript
5 10 (28.57%) SQL
6 6 (17.14%) Python
7 3 (8.57%) Java
8 2 (5.71%) Bash
8 2 (5.71%) C++
8 2 (5.71%) Go
8 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (48.57%) Degree
2 17 (48.57%) DV Cleared
2 17 (48.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 17 (48.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 20 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 20 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
2 17 (48.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (48.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (48.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (48.57%) SCCM
2 17 (48.57%) SCOM
2 17 (48.57%) WSUS
3 7 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Grafana
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (68.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Sitecore