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 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 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,286 4,389 8,172
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.61% 18.11% 18.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.58% 46.02% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,641 3,268 6,112
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £713 £747 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 56 48
10th Percentile £21.16 £27.31 £45.88
25th Percentile £22.61 £54.00 £53.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £66.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% - +22.22%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile £47.00 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -44.44% +16.67% +4.85%

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 5,369 9,537 18,208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 39.34% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,113 13,635
10th Percentile £350 £370 £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 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 134 154
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.10
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.26 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +26.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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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 2 June 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 2 June 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
1 122 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 81 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 73 (3.19%) Confluence
4 40 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 30 (1.31%) CMS
6 29 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.83%) Apache
8 15 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
9 10 (0.44%) IIS
9 10 (0.44%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
11 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.26%) Kentico
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.26%) SAS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 4 (0.17%) Luigi
Applications
1 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.31%) Trello
6 3 (0.13%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Sketch
7 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.044%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 56 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (0.57%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.35%) Endur
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.31%) Shopify
6 7 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 6 (0.26%) Maximo
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.087%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.087%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 2 (0.087%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.044%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.044%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 564 (24.67%) AWS
2 504 (22.05%) Azure DevOps
3 274 (11.99%) Microsoft 365
4 241 (10.54%) Power Platform
5 231 (10.10%) GCP
6 218 (9.54%) Entra ID
7 150 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
8 117 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 105 (4.59%) GitHub
10 104 (4.55%) PaaS
11 103 (4.51%) Serverless
12 87 (3.81%) SaaS
13 86 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 86 (3.76%) IaaS
14 84 (3.67%) PowerApps
15 77 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
16 75 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 72 (3.15%) Power Automate
18 70 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 67 (2.93%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 156 (6.82%) Firewall
2 84 (3.67%) DNS
3 46 (2.01%) Network Security
4 44 (1.92%) VPN
5 40 (1.75%) DHCP
6 39 (1.71%) SSL
7 31 (1.36%) WAN
8 28 (1.22%) LAN
9 27 (1.18%) BGP
10 21 (0.92%) TCP/IP
11 20 (0.87%) HTTP
12 19 (0.83%) SAN
13 15 (0.66%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.52%) NAS
14 12 (0.52%) NetScaler
15 11 (0.48%) VLAN
16 10 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (0.39%) OSPF
18 8 (0.35%) VoIP
19 7 (0.31%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (11.81%) SQL Server
2 159 (6.96%) Power BI
3 118 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (4.59%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 58 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 56 (2.45%) NoSQL
8 52 (2.27%) Big Data
9 33 (1.44%) MySQL
10 32 (1.40%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (1.05%) Tableau
14 22 (0.96%) Redis
15 20 (0.87%) Delta Lake
16 19 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
17 16 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (0.66%) RDBMS
19 13 (0.57%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 150 (6.56%) Git
2 146 (6.39%) JIRA
3 70 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.36%) GitLab
5 46 (2.01%) Selenium
6 36 (1.57%) Visual Studio
7 27 (1.18%) SonarQube
8 25 (1.09%) SpecFlow
9 19 (0.83%) Postman
10 17 (0.74%) Maven
11 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 15 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.57%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.52%) JMeter
15 11 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.48%) WebDriver
16 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
17 8 (0.35%) REST Assured
General
1 533 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 419 (18.33%) Finance
3 259 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 163 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (3.02%) Banking
6 68 (2.97%) Retail
7 46 (2.01%) Front Office
7 46 (2.01%) Manufacturing
8 40 (1.75%) Marketing
9 39 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.27%) Law
13 28 (1.22%) Back Office
13 28 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.09%) General Ledger
15 21 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (0.92%) Legal
16 17 (0.74%) Electronics
17 12 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 482 (21.08%) Developer
2 404 (17.67%) Architect
3 282 (12.34%) Senior
4 183 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
5 159 (6.96%) Consultant
6 153 (6.69%) Lead
7 149 (6.52%) Data Engineer
8 128 (5.60%) Analyst
9 109 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
10 108 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 93 (4.07%) Senior Developer
12 89 (3.89%) .NET Developer
13 88 (3.85%) C# Developer
14 85 (3.72%) Azure Developer
15 74 (3.24%) Azure Architect
16 64 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
17 63 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
17 63 (2.76%) Technical Architect
18 62 (2.71%) Azure Data Engineer
19 61 (2.67%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (14.61%) .NET
2 102 (4.46%) REST
3 99 (4.33%) React
4 98 (4.29%) XML
5 97 (4.24%) Web Services
6 81 (3.54%) ARM Templates
7 78 (3.41%) .NET Core
7 78 (3.41%) .NET Framework
8 77 (3.37%) CSS
8 77 (3.37%) HTML
9 66 (2.89%) ASP.NET
10 65 (2.84%) AngularJS
11 60 (2.62%) JSON
12 52 (2.27%) RESTful
13 51 (2.23%) PySpark
14 49 (2.14%) Node.js
15 48 (2.10%) Kafka
16 39 (1.71%) Middleware
17 36 (1.57%) SAML
18 33 (1.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (3.98%) Product Ownership
2 70 (3.06%) Data Structures
3 65 (2.84%) PKI
4 62 (2.71%) Public Cloud
5 61 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 56 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 41 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 38 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.57%) Derivative
11 34 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (1.44%) Replication
13 31 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
15 28 (1.22%) Mobile App
16 24 (1.05%) NHS
17 23 (1.01%) Private Cloud
18 22 (0.96%) Hedge funds
19 21 (0.92%) Equities
19 21 (0.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 293 (12.82%) Windows
2 159 (6.96%) Linux
3 105 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.10%) Windows 10
5 38 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (1.40%) Unix
7 27 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (1.05%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.66%) Android
12 10 (0.44%) Solaris
12 10 (0.44%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) AIX
13 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.087%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (36.35%) DevOps
2 576 (25.20%) Agile
3 325 (14.22%) CI/CD
4 282 (12.34%) Migration
5 274 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
6 212 (9.27%) Analytics
7 195 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
8 164 (7.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 163 (7.13%) Software Engineering
10 158 (6.91%) Data Modelling
11 155 (6.78%) Scrum
12 146 (6.39%) Test Automation
13 142 (6.21%) ETL
14 140 (6.12%) Microservices
15 121 (5.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 111 (4.86%) Computer Science
17 110 (4.81%) Containerisation
18 109 (4.77%) Cybersecurity
19 99 (4.33%) ITIL
20 96 (4.20%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 451 (19.73%) SQL
2 383 (16.75%) C#
3 359 (15.70%) Python
4 251 (10.98%) PowerShell
5 164 (7.17%) JavaScript
6 140 (6.12%) Java
7 90 (3.94%) Bicep
8 76 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 60 (2.62%) Bash
10 29 (1.27%) Go
11 28 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 27 (1.18%) VB
13 25 (1.09%) Scala
14 22 (0.96%) R
15 21 (0.92%) VBScript
16 17 (0.74%) C++
16 17 (0.74%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.61%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 329 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 262 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 225 (9.84%) Degree
4 92 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 84 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 72 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (0.96%) CISSP
10 22 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 21 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.66%) PMP
13 14 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.52%) CISM
14 12 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.26%) CEH
17 6 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.37%) QA
2 55 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 37 (1.62%) GDPR
4 35 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.40%) NIST
6 31 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.22%) NCSC
8 24 (1.05%) Accessibility
9 18 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
10 12 (0.52%) WCAG
11 9 (0.39%) SLA
12 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.31%) PMO
14 6 (0.26%) COBIT
14 6 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.17%) PSD2
16 4 (0.17%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 314 (13.74%) Active Directory
2 177 (7.74%) Docker
3 58 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
4 42 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (1.31%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.83%) vSphere
8 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.13%) Firmware
12 2 (0.087%) HDFS
12 2 (0.087%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.087%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.044%) ACF2
13 1 (0.044%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.044%) RACF
13 1 (0.044%) vCloud
13 1 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 237 (10.37%) Kubernetes
1 237 (10.37%) Terraform
2 87 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 85 (3.72%) Ansible
4 49 (2.14%) SCCM
5 39 (1.71%) SCOM
6 38 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.22%) Grafana
8 25 (1.09%) WSUS
9 24 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (1.05%) Prometheus
10 20 (0.87%) Puppet
11 16 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.35%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.35%) Podman
14 7 (0.31%) Argo
14 7 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.26%) Kibana
15 6 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 694 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 150 (6.56%) Databricks
3 120 (5.25%) Oracle
4 101 (4.42%) VMware
5 68 (2.97%) Google
6 53 (2.32%) SAP
7 47 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 43 (1.88%) Splunk
9 41 (1.79%) Cisco
10 39 (1.71%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.49%) Citrix
12 31 (1.36%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.31%) Atlassian
14 21 (0.92%) Informatica
14 21 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.92%) NetApp
15 20 (0.87%) Qualys
15 20 (0.87%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.83%) F5
16 19 (0.83%) HP