Azure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,202 3,357 4,176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.35% 14.79% 13.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.46% 45.24% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,523 3,223
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £626 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 60 30
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.57 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.79 £26.02 £33.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £60.28 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +34.69% -14.76%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £50.46
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £54.00
% change year-on-year -43.41% +14.54% +4.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,443 7,420 9,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.58% 32.68% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 5,468 7,398
10th Percentile £220 £240 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 212 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £27.10 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -29.26% +41.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
South East -3 602 £550 -4.35% 478
North of England -5 537 £500 -4.76% 685
South West -2 363 £500 -9.09% 307
North West -7 304 £500 - 386
Midlands -6 303 £550 +14.58% 419
Scotland +1 252 £450 -10.00% 155
West Midlands -8 208 £550 +5.77% 254
Yorkshire +1 201 £500 -9.09% 229
East Midlands -4 95 £488 +14.71% 163
East of England -32 81 £450 - 157
Wales +4 61 £500 -2.44% 71
North East -2 39 £533 -11.25% 72
Northern Ireland +2 29 £575 +35.29% 55
Isle of Man 0 5 £388 +96.20% 4
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 170 (7.72%) SharePoint
2 130 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (3.59%) Confluence
4 43 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 28 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
6 22 (1.00%) Apache
7 15 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.68%) CMS
8 12 (0.54%) IIS
9 9 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.18%) SAS
12 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.45%) Sketch
5 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.045%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.045%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 18 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.36%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.32%) Maximo
6 7 (0.32%) Temenos T24
7 6 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.18%) SAP GTS
9 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.091%) SAP IS-U
11 1 (0.045%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.045%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.045%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 549 (24.93%) AWS
2 407 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
3 326 (14.80%) Microsoft 365
4 296 (13.44%) Power Platform
5 254 (11.53%) Entra ID
6 176 (7.99%) GCP
7 143 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 105 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (4.68%) Serverless
10 89 (4.04%) GitHub
11 88 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 86 (3.91%) PaaS
13 82 (3.72%) SaaS
14 72 (3.27%) Azure Functions
15 66 (3.00%) Power Automate
16 65 (2.95%) IaaS
16 65 (2.95%) PowerApps
17 59 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
19 53 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 196 (8.90%) Firewall
2 120 (5.45%) DNS
3 83 (3.77%) VPN
4 57 (2.59%) WAN
5 55 (2.50%) SSL
6 52 (2.36%) DHCP
7 51 (2.32%) SAN
8 50 (2.27%) LAN
9 44 (2.00%) Network Security
10 41 (1.86%) BGP
11 40 (1.82%) TCP/IP
12 21 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (0.86%) OSPF
13 19 (0.86%) Wireless
14 17 (0.77%) VLAN
15 16 (0.73%) HTTP
16 13 (0.59%) Wireshark
17 11 (0.50%) Intranet
17 11 (0.50%) MPLS
18 10 (0.45%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (9.36%) Power BI
2 165 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 87 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (3.50%) Data Lake
5 66 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 57 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 52 (2.36%) MySQL
7 52 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 49 (2.23%) NoSQL
9 38 (1.73%) MongoDB
9 38 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (1.68%) Tableau
11 35 (1.59%) Big Data
12 29 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 23 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 20 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 15 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 162 (7.36%) JIRA
2 142 (6.45%) Git
3 78 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 73 (3.32%) Selenium
5 63 (2.86%) GitLab
6 37 (1.68%) Visual Studio
7 30 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.09%) Bitbucket
10 22 (1.00%) Maven
11 21 (0.95%) Postman
12 14 (0.64%) Artifactory
12 14 (0.64%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.54%) NUnit
13 12 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.50%) JMeter
14 11 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 568 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 257 (11.67%) Finance
3 221 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 66 (3.00%) Banking
6 42 (1.91%) Manufacturing
7 36 (1.63%) Legal
7 36 (1.63%) Retail
8 33 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 33 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 28 (1.27%) Law
10 27 (1.23%) Marketing
11 24 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.64%) Electronics
15 10 (0.45%) Automotive
15 10 (0.45%) Local Government
15 10 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 354 (16.08%) Architect
2 343 (15.58%) Developer
3 187 (8.49%) Analyst
4 166 (7.54%) Senior
5 142 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 118 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 116 (5.27%) Lead
8 105 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 103 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 100 (4.54%) Data Engineer
11 93 (4.22%) Consultant
12 74 (3.36%) Project Manager
13 73 (3.32%) Support Engineer
14 60 (2.72%) .NET Developer
15 59 (2.68%) Azure Architect
16 57 (2.59%) Azure Developer
16 57 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
17 51 (2.32%) Administrator
18 49 (2.23%) Technical Architect
19 46 (2.09%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (9.63%) .NET
2 97 (4.41%) React
3 83 (3.77%) REST
4 81 (3.68%) Web Services
5 60 (2.72%) CSS
6 59 (2.68%) RESTful
7 55 (2.50%) HTML
8 54 (2.45%) AngularJS
8 54 (2.45%) Kafka
9 53 (2.41%) ARM Templates
10 52 (2.36%) .NET Framework
11 49 (2.23%) XML
12 39 (1.77%) .NET Core
12 39 (1.77%) JSON
13 38 (1.73%) Spring Boot
14 35 (1.59%) Spring
15 33 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
15 33 (1.50%) YAML
16 31 (1.41%) SOAP
17 29 (1.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.22%) Public Cloud
2 91 (4.13%) PKI
3 80 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 39 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 34 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 33 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 33 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 31 (1.41%) NHS
11 29 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.14%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 22 (1.00%) Replication
17 21 (0.95%) Client/Server
18 20 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 409 (18.57%) Windows
2 229 (10.40%) Linux
3 175 (7.95%) Windows Server
4 105 (4.77%) Windows 10
5 70 (3.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 66 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 43 (1.95%) Unix
8 39 (1.77%) Apple iOS
9 36 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 30 (1.36%) Mac OS
10 30 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 29 (1.32%) Android
12 18 (0.82%) VMS
13 16 (0.73%) Windows XP
14 8 (0.36%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.32%) Solaris
16 6 (0.27%) AIX
17 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
18 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (32.97%) DevOps
2 517 (23.48%) Agile
3 320 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
4 274 (12.44%) CI/CD
5 243 (11.04%) Migration
6 218 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
7 174 (7.90%) Analytics
8 167 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 164 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 162 (7.36%) ITIL
11 141 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 139 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
13 138 (6.27%) Test Automation
14 137 (6.22%) Scrum
15 133 (6.04%) Project Management
16 129 (5.86%) Data Modelling
17 122 (5.54%) Containerisation
17 122 (5.54%) Microservices
18 117 (5.31%) ETL
19 101 (4.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 345 (15.67%) SQL
2 297 (13.49%) Python
3 276 (12.53%) PowerShell
4 221 (10.04%) C#
5 157 (7.13%) Java
6 117 (5.31%) JavaScript
7 66 (3.00%) Bash
8 48 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 44 (2.00%) Bicep
10 40 (1.82%) C
11 39 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 38 (1.73%) VBScript
13 30 (1.36%) VB
14 25 (1.14%) Scala
15 23 (1.04%) PHP
16 21 (0.95%) C++
17 17 (0.77%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
19 15 (0.68%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 463 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 298 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 243 (11.04%) Degree
4 223 (10.13%) DV Cleared
5 73 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 50 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 47 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (1.63%) CCNA
10 27 (1.23%) CCNP
10 27 (1.23%) CISSP
11 25 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 18 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.68%) CISM
17 14 (0.64%) MCSE
18 11 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
19 10 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.63%) QA
2 37 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 31 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
3 31 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.18%) NIST
5 25 (1.14%) GDPR
6 18 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.77%) SLA
8 15 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
9 12 (0.54%) NCSC
9 12 (0.54%) PMO
10 9 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.23%) COBIT
14 4 (0.18%) GRC
15 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.14%) WCAG
16 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.091%) GxP
System Software
1 428 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 169 (7.67%) Docker
3 123 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 79 (3.59%) Hyper-V
5 61 (2.77%) Virtual Desktop
6 55 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 28 (1.27%) vSphere
9 15 (0.68%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.41%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.41%) XenApp
10 9 (0.41%) XenDesktop
11 8 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.27%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.14%) HDFS
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.091%) NFS
15 1 (0.045%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 218 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 206 (9.36%) Terraform
3 151 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 107 (4.86%) Ansible
5 98 (4.45%) SCCM
6 63 (2.86%) SCOM
7 61 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
8 49 (2.23%) Grafana
9 43 (1.95%) Prometheus
10 42 (1.91%) WSUS
11 33 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 28 (1.27%) vCenter Server
13 22 (1.00%) Puppet
14 21 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
15 20 (0.91%) Progress Chef
16 15 (0.68%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
18 13 (0.59%) Istio
18 13 (0.59%) Podman
19 12 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 702 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 192 (8.72%) VMware
3 120 (5.45%) Oracle
4 96 (4.36%) Databricks
5 73 (3.32%) Google
6 69 (3.13%) Cisco
7 53 (2.41%) Citrix
8 46 (2.09%) Atlassian
9 43 (1.95%) Splunk
10 39 (1.77%) SAP
11 37 (1.68%) Veeam
12 36 (1.63%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.54%) F5
14 33 (1.50%) ServiceNow
15 30 (1.36%) CyberArk
16 27 (1.23%) Salesforce
17 25 (1.14%) Dell
18 24 (1.09%) HP
19 23 (1.04%) Red Hat
20 20 (0.91%) Juniper