Azure Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 5,014 7,705 11,698
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.59% 16.23% 16.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.47% 44.76% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,702 5,702 8,694
10th Percentile £350 £383 £388
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £753 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 70 48
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.60 £17.45
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.48 £34.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £61.19 £70.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £85.38
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -44.44% +17.21% +5.39%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,806 17,214 27,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.26% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,506 12,625 20,019
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 287 322
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.98 £18.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London 0 2,966 £550 -8.33% 1,217
South East -3 594 £550 -3.93% 451
North of England -5 519 £500 -4.76% 645
South West -2 363 £500 -9.50% 291
Midlands -7 294 £525 +9.38% 390
North West -9 286 £500 - 371
West Midlands -7 210 £550 +6.28% 243
Yorkshire +1 204 £500 -9.09% 207
East Midlands -5 85 £455 +2.25% 147
East of England -33 78 £451 +0.28% 137
North East -2 35 £533 -11.25% 69
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 318 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 217 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 137 (2.73%) Confluence
4 133 (2.65%) Apache
5 95 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
6 91 (1.81%) Apache Spark
7 42 (0.84%) CMS
8 40 (0.80%) IIS
9 30 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
10 13 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
10 13 (0.26%) nginx
11 12 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 11 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.18%) SAS
14 8 (0.16%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
14 8 (0.16%) Site Server
15 7 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 97 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.060%) Trello
8 1 (0.020%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.020%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 112 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 15 (0.30%) Endur
7 12 (0.24%) Temenos T24
8 10 (0.20%) Shopify
8 10 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.16%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
11 7 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
12 6 (0.12%) SAP GRC
13 5 (0.100%) OpenLink RightAngle
14 4 (0.080%) SAP HR
15 3 (0.060%) BusinessWorks
15 3 (0.060%) Maximo
15 3 (0.060%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,287 (25.67%) AWS
2 1,039 (20.72%) Azure DevOps
3 606 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
4 582 (11.61%) Power Platform
5 581 (11.59%) GCP
6 537 (10.71%) Entra ID
7 298 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 265 (5.29%) Serverless
9 249 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
10 208 (4.15%) PaaS
11 199 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 191 (3.81%) GitHub
13 184 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
14 180 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 170 (3.39%) Azure Functions
15 170 (3.39%) PowerApps
16 169 (3.37%) IaaS
17 159 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 159 (3.17%) Power Automate
17 159 (3.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 351 (7.00%) Firewall
2 212 (4.23%) DNS
3 134 (2.67%) VPN
4 104 (2.07%) WAN
5 92 (1.83%) Network Security
6 90 (1.79%) DHCP
6 90 (1.79%) LAN
7 70 (1.40%) SAN
8 66 (1.32%) TCP/IP
9 65 (1.30%) BGP
10 59 (1.18%) SSL
11 44 (0.88%) Wireless
12 43 (0.86%) OSPF
13 42 (0.84%) MPLS
14 37 (0.74%) HTTP
14 37 (0.74%) VLAN
14 37 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
15 36 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 31 (0.62%) Internet
17 24 (0.48%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 603 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 447 (8.92%) Power BI
3 277 (5.52%) Data Lake
4 249 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
5 224 (4.47%) NoSQL
6 201 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
7 186 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 139 (2.77%) Big Data
9 113 (2.25%) Relational Database
10 96 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 86 (1.72%) MySQL
11 86 (1.72%) Tableau
12 77 (1.54%) MongoDB
13 68 (1.36%) Apache Ignite
14 48 (0.96%) Redis
15 43 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 38 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 34 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
18 31 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
19 30 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 362 (7.22%) Git
2 242 (4.83%) JIRA
3 173 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 132 (2.63%) GitLab
5 108 (2.15%) Selenium
6 80 (1.60%) Visual Studio
7 78 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.18%) SpecFlow
9 45 (0.90%) SonarQube
10 40 (0.80%) Postman
11 34 (0.68%) Maven
12 32 (0.64%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.64%) JMeter
13 29 (0.58%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.56%) Bitbucket
15 24 (0.48%) CircleCI
16 19 (0.38%) Artifactory
16 19 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
17 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 16 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 1,142 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 1,060 (21.14%) Finance
3 468 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 460 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 337 (6.72%) Banking
6 203 (4.05%) Front Office
7 124 (2.47%) Retail
8 110 (2.19%) Marketing
9 80 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 80 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 75 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 71 (1.42%) Legal
12 70 (1.40%) Back Office
13 62 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 55 (1.10%) Law
15 50 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 48 (0.96%) Financial Institution
17 47 (0.94%) Investment Banking
18 42 (0.84%) Electronics
18 42 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,015 (20.24%) Developer
2 837 (16.69%) Architect
3 528 (10.53%) Senior
4 450 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
5 353 (7.04%) Analyst
6 327 (6.52%) Data Engineer
7 275 (5.48%) Lead
8 254 (5.07%) Consultant
9 249 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 229 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
11 223 (4.45%) Software Engineer
12 187 (3.73%) Senior Developer
13 182 (3.63%) .NET Developer
14 181 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 164 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
16 159 (3.17%) Azure Developer
17 157 (3.13%) Python Developer
18 148 (2.95%) Azure Architect
19 138 (2.75%) C# Developer
20 137 (2.73%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (13.98%) .NET
2 315 (6.28%) React
3 213 (4.25%) .NET Core
4 205 (4.09%) XML
5 198 (3.95%) HTML
6 188 (3.75%) REST
7 178 (3.55%) .NET Framework
8 166 (3.31%) AngularJS
9 160 (3.19%) CSS
10 151 (3.01%) Kafka
11 150 (2.99%) Web Services
12 129 (2.57%) PySpark
13 117 (2.33%) ASP.NET
14 112 (2.23%) JSON
15 111 (2.21%) RESTful
16 109 (2.17%) Node.js
17 108 (2.15%) ARM Templates
18 102 (2.03%) Redux
19 87 (1.74%) gRPC
20 84 (1.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 135 (2.69%) Public Cloud
3 130 (2.59%) Data Centre
4 121 (2.41%) Hedge funds
4 121 (2.41%) PKI
5 117 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 111 (2.21%) Cloud Native
7 94 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 89 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 82 (1.64%) Derivative
9 82 (1.64%) Equities
10 79 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 71 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 66 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 54 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 52 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
15 50 (1.00%) Private Cloud
16 47 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 45 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
18 43 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 706 (14.08%) Windows
2 390 (7.78%) Linux
3 276 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 151 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 89 (1.78%) Unix
6 78 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 71 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 60 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 59 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 40 (0.80%) Mac OS
11 36 (0.72%) Android
12 34 (0.68%) Apple iOS
13 33 (0.66%) VMS
14 17 (0.34%) Windows XP
15 14 (0.28%) Ubuntu
15 14 (0.28%) Windows 7
16 13 (0.26%) Solaris
17 11 (0.22%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
19 5 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,730 (34.50%) DevOps
2 1,392 (27.76%) Agile
3 777 (15.50%) CI/CD
4 658 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
5 583 (11.63%) Migration
6 497 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
7 473 (9.43%) Software Engineering
8 461 (9.19%) Analytics
9 412 (8.22%) Scrum
10 367 (7.32%) Data Modelling
11 357 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 310 (6.18%) ETL
13 299 (5.96%) Microservices
14 295 (5.88%) Full Stack Development
15 281 (5.60%) Computer Science
16 280 (5.58%) Stakeholder Management
17 277 (5.52%) ITIL
18 269 (5.36%) Test Automation
19 250 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 242 (4.83%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,002 (19.98%) SQL
2 934 (18.63%) Python
3 749 (14.94%) C#
4 682 (13.60%) PowerShell
5 366 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 330 (6.58%) Java
7 250 (4.99%) TypeScript
8 169 (3.37%) Bicep
9 140 (2.79%) Bash
10 97 (1.93%) T-SQL
11 58 (1.16%) C++
12 57 (1.14%) Go
13 56 (1.12%) C
14 54 (1.08%) Scala
15 37 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 36 (0.72%) VBScript
17 35 (0.70%) R
18 33 (0.66%) Shell Script
19 31 (0.62%) VB
20 28 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 759 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 565 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 522 (10.41%) Degree
4 248 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 192 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 171 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 103 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 86 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (1.54%) CISSP
10 63 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 53 (1.06%) CCNA
13 51 (1.02%) CCNP
14 44 (0.88%) CISM
15 40 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 21 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
18 18 (0.36%) PMP
19 17 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 17 (0.34%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (4.35%) QA
2 135 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 81 (1.62%) GDPR
4 77 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (1.34%) NIST
5 67 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 54 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 50 (1.00%) SLA
8 33 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
9 24 (0.48%) WCAG
10 22 (0.44%) NCSC
11 19 (0.38%) PMO
12 18 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.24%) COBIT
15 11 (0.22%) GRC
16 9 (0.18%) ISO 20022
17 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 826 (16.47%) Active Directory
2 374 (7.46%) Docker
3 186 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 122 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 115 (2.29%) Hyper-V
6 81 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (0.78%) vSphere
8 36 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.30%) XenApp
11 13 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.22%) Firmware
12 11 (0.22%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (0.16%) ACF2
14 8 (0.16%) IAG
14 8 (0.16%) RACF
15 7 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.12%) KVM
16 6 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 506 (10.09%) Terraform
2 484 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 256 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 210 (4.19%) Ansible
5 151 (3.01%) SCCM
6 105 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 76 (1.52%) SCOM
8 69 (1.38%) Grafana
9 59 (1.18%) Puppet
10 53 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 53 (1.06%) Prometheus
11 47 (0.94%) WSUS
12 39 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 27 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
14 24 (0.48%) vCenter Server
15 23 (0.46%) Kibana
16 22 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
17 20 (0.40%) logstash
17 20 (0.40%) Podman
18 19 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,654 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 308 (6.14%) Databricks
3 298 (5.94%) VMware
4 281 (5.60%) Oracle
5 231 (4.61%) Google
6 145 (2.89%) SAP
7 132 (2.63%) Cisco
8 106 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 91 (1.81%) Splunk
10 86 (1.72%) Citrix
11 78 (1.56%) CyberArk
12 70 (1.40%) Palo Alto
13 67 (1.34%) F5
14 66 (1.32%) Salesforce
15 49 (0.98%) Atlassian
16 48 (0.96%) Veeam
17 45 (0.90%) Dell
18 43 (0.86%) Okta
19 42 (0.84%) Informatica
20 39 (0.78%) Red Hat