Azure Blueprints Contracts

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Blueprints skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Blueprints over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 680 809
Rank change year-on-year +112 +129 -88
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 11 4 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.007% 0.036%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.031% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 30
10th Percentile - £426 £464
25th Percentile - £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -18.37% +18.07%
75th Percentile - £538 £669
90th Percentile - £560 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £663
% change year-on-year - -16.98% +29.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Azure Blueprints is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Blueprints as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Blueprints.

Daily rate trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Blueprints within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Work from Home +120 11 £650 +30.00% 2
London +99 1 £675 +48.35% 1
England +95 1 £675 +35.00% 1

Azure Blueprints
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 10 (90.91%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (90.91%) IaaS
2 10 (90.91%) PaaS
2 10 (90.91%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Management Information System
1 10 (90.91%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
1 10 (90.91%) Continuous Delivery
1 10 (90.91%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (90.91%) Deployment Automation
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) DevSecOps
1 10 (90.91%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 10 (90.91%) Functional Testing
1 10 (90.91%) Mentoring
1 10 (90.91%) Non-Functional Testing
1 10 (90.91%) Performance Analysis
1 10 (90.91%) Project Management
1 10 (90.91%) Release Management
1 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
1 10 (90.91%) Static Application Security Testing
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (9.09%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bicep
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 10 (90.91%) Ansible
2 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes