Azure Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,359 4,705 8,254
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.34% 18.20% 18.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.30% 45.95% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,671 3,465 6,120
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 57 53
10th Percentile £21.16 £27.85 £34.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £54.00 £51.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £66.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +0.70% +23.66%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £47.00 £75.00 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure 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 5,577 10,240 18,500
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.27% 39.60% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,989 7,519 13,811
10th Percentile £350 £375 £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 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.43 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +83.33% -21.83%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £78.40 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Azure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Azure daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Azure hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 136 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 86 (3.65%) Confluence
3 84 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.14%) CMS
6 24 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
8 14 (0.59%) Apache
8 14 (0.59%) IIS
9 9 (0.38%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
11 7 (0.30%) NServiceBus
11 7 (0.30%) SAS
12 6 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.25%) Kentico
13 5 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.21%) JBoss
13 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.30%) Trello
5 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.085%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.085%) Sketch
6 2 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.042%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.042%) InVision
7 1 (0.042%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 55 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.06%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (0.47%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.38%) Endur
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.25%) Shopify
7 6 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.085%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.085%) Maximo
9 2 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.085%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.085%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.042%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 579 (24.54%) AWS
2 524 (22.21%) Azure DevOps
3 300 (12.72%) Microsoft 365
4 261 (11.06%) Power Platform
5 220 (9.33%) Entra ID
5 220 (9.33%) GCP
6 150 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
7 137 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 114 (4.83%) Serverless
9 112 (4.75%) PaaS
10 99 (4.20%) GitHub
11 94 (3.98%) IaaS
12 93 (3.94%) SaaS
13 87 (3.69%) PowerApps
14 84 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 83 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
16 78 (3.31%) Power Automate
17 75 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
18 73 (3.09%) Azure Functions
19 71 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 172 (7.29%) Firewall
2 99 (4.20%) DNS
3 55 (2.33%) Network Security
4 50 (2.12%) VPN
5 47 (1.99%) SSL
6 46 (1.95%) DHCP
7 33 (1.40%) WAN
8 31 (1.31%) LAN
9 30 (1.27%) BGP
10 23 (0.97%) TCP/IP
11 22 (0.93%) SAN
12 19 (0.81%) HTTP
13 13 (0.55%) NAS
13 13 (0.55%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.51%) NetScaler
15 11 (0.47%) VLAN
16 9 (0.38%) MPLS
16 9 (0.38%) OSPF
17 7 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
17 7 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 174 (7.38%) Power BI
3 117 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (4.58%) Data Lake
5 81 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 61 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 48 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 41 (1.74%) Big Data
10 38 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.44%) MySQL
12 26 (1.10%) MongoDB
13 23 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (0.93%) Tableau
15 21 (0.89%) Redis
16 17 (0.72%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.68%) Power Query
18 15 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 14 (0.59%) Delta Lake
19 14 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 170 (7.21%) JIRA
2 148 (6.27%) Git
3 80 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.54%) GitLab
5 41 (1.74%) Selenium
6 38 (1.61%) Visual Studio
7 32 (1.36%) SpecFlow
8 26 (1.10%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.85%) Postman
11 16 (0.68%) Maven
12 15 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.59%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.59%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.55%) Cucumber
15 12 (0.51%) NUnit
16 11 (0.47%) WebDriver
17 10 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 10 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
18 9 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 535 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 423 (17.93%) Finance
3 282 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 165 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (2.84%) Banking
6 61 (2.59%) Retail
7 56 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 50 (2.12%) Front Office
8 50 (2.12%) Marketing
9 45 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (1.40%) Law
13 30 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (0.97%) Electronics
15 23 (0.97%) General Ledger
16 20 (0.85%) Back Office
17 19 (0.81%) Legal
18 11 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 485 (20.56%) Developer
2 417 (17.68%) Architect
3 277 (11.74%) Senior
4 195 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
5 172 (7.29%) Lead
6 145 (6.15%) Consultant
7 144 (6.10%) Data Engineer
8 135 (5.72%) Analyst
9 114 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 111 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (4.03%) Senior Developer
12 91 (3.86%) .NET Developer
13 88 (3.73%) Azure Developer
13 88 (3.73%) C# Developer
14 77 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
15 74 (3.14%) Azure Architect
16 71 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 66 (2.80%) Azure Data Engineer
18 63 (2.67%) Data Architect
19 58 (2.46%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (13.06%) .NET
2 97 (4.11%) XML
3 93 (3.94%) REST
4 86 (3.65%) Web Services
5 85 (3.60%) React
6 81 (3.43%) ARM Templates
7 72 (3.05%) .NET Core
8 70 (2.97%) .NET Framework
8 70 (2.97%) CSS
9 69 (2.92%) AngularJS
10 66 (2.80%) ASP.NET
11 65 (2.76%) HTML
12 64 (2.71%) JSON
13 55 (2.33%) Node.js
14 44 (1.87%) RESTful
15 37 (1.57%) PySpark
15 37 (1.57%) YAML
16 36 (1.53%) Kafka
17 32 (1.36%) Entity Framework
17 32 (1.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (3.73%) Product Ownership
2 68 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 67 (2.84%) Cloud Native
3 67 (2.84%) Data Centre
4 66 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 64 (2.71%) PKI
6 51 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 44 (1.87%) Derivative
8 43 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (1.27%) Replication
13 27 (1.14%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.10%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.10%) NHS
15 25 (1.06%) Hedge funds
16 24 (1.02%) Equities
17 22 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
18 20 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 313 (13.27%) Windows
2 165 (6.99%) Linux
3 115 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.53%) Unix
6 29 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.64%) Solaris
11 14 (0.59%) VMS
12 12 (0.51%) Android
13 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.25%) AIX
16 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.085%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (36.37%) DevOps
2 586 (24.84%) Agile
3 337 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 303 (12.84%) Migration
5 266 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (9.07%) Analytics
7 213 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
8 175 (7.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 165 (6.99%) Software Engineering
10 163 (6.91%) Scrum
11 156 (6.61%) Data Modelling
12 144 (6.10%) Test Automation
13 139 (5.89%) ETL
14 138 (5.85%) Microservices
15 123 (5.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 122 (5.17%) Cybersecurity
17 110 (4.66%) ITIL
18 103 (4.37%) Mentoring
19 102 (4.32%) Project Management
20 97 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 450 (19.08%) SQL
2 364 (15.43%) Python
3 360 (15.26%) C#
4 259 (10.98%) PowerShell
5 160 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.79%) Java
7 80 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 71 (3.01%) Bicep
9 65 (2.76%) Bash
10 30 (1.27%) R
10 30 (1.27%) Scala
11 29 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 26 (1.10%) Go
13 23 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.89%) VB
15 18 (0.76%) PHP
16 17 (0.72%) C++
16 17 (0.72%) VBScript
17 16 (0.68%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 349 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 279 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 217 (9.20%) Degree
4 86 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 81 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 61 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.19%) CISSP
10 24 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 18 (0.76%) CISM
13 15 (0.64%) PMP
14 14 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.55%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.51%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 8 (0.34%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
19 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (3.18%) QA
2 54 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.36%) NIST
5 30 (1.27%) NCSC
6 27 (1.14%) GDPR
7 26 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
9 20 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.55%) WCAG
11 11 (0.47%) SLA
12 9 (0.38%) PMO
13 7 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.17%) COBIT
15 4 (0.17%) PSD2
16 3 (0.13%) GPG13
16 3 (0.13%) GxP
16 3 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 336 (14.24%) Active Directory
2 157 (6.66%) Docker
3 57 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 52 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.23%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.81%) vSphere
8 8 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.13%) Firmware
9 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.13%) XenApp
10 2 (0.085%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.085%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.042%) ACF2
11 1 (0.042%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.042%) HDFS
11 1 (0.042%) IAG
11 1 (0.042%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 250 (10.60%) Terraform
2 211 (8.94%) Kubernetes
3 102 (4.32%) Ansible
4 91 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (2.08%) SCCM
6 37 (1.57%) SCOM
7 35 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 26 (1.10%) Puppet
10 25 (1.06%) Grafana
11 24 (1.02%) Prometheus
12 22 (0.93%) WSUS
13 20 (0.85%) Progress Chef
14 15 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.34%) Data Guard
16 8 (0.34%) Kibana
16 8 (0.34%) Nagios
16 8 (0.34%) Podman
17 7 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 724 (30.69%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.27%) Databricks
3 125 (5.30%) Oracle
4 114 (4.83%) VMware
5 61 (2.59%) SAP
6 55 (2.33%) Google
7 49 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 43 (1.82%) Cisco
8 43 (1.82%) Splunk
9 39 (1.65%) Atlassian
9 39 (1.65%) Citrix
10 36 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 27 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 24 (1.02%) HP
13 23 (0.97%) IBM
13 23 (0.97%) Informatica
13 23 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 20 (0.85%) Qualys
15 19 (0.81%) NetApp
15 19 (0.81%) Red Hat