Azure Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 14 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 50 82 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.29% 16.14% 10.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.25% 41.62% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 60 44
10th Percentile £324 £385 £207
25th Percentile £445 £450 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +15.79% +6.74%
75th Percentile £638 £571 £543
90th Percentile £680 £605 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
North West median hourly rate £17.50 £55.84 £22.50
% change year-on-year -68.66% +148.18% -66.34%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 177 197 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.90% 38.78% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 144 96
10th Percentile £300 £215 £163
25th Percentile £363 £385 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £543
90th Percentile £638 £638 £632
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £16.79 £13.73 £18.73
25th Percentile - £20.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.47 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -21.14% +0.36% +37.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.63 £31.00
90th Percentile - £42.58 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £27.20 £26.40
% change year-on-year -40.96% +3.05% +44.63%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Cheshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Cheshire 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
Warrington +2 17 £475 +1.33% 18
Knutsford -16 11 £489 -13.45% 11
Chester +7 2 £296 -24.04% 15
Runcorn -3 1 - - 6
Macclesfield -15 1 - -
Northwich - 1 - - 1
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (12.00%) Confluence
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 8 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.00%) Apigee
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (12.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) Kong
5 5 (10.00%) SaaS
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Stack
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
7 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) Commercetools
8 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.00%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) VPN
2 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (12.00%) VLAN
3 4 (8.00%) BGP
3 4 (8.00%) MPLS
3 4 (8.00%) OSPF
3 4 (8.00%) Value-Added Service
3 4 (8.00%) Wireshark
4 3 (6.00%) DNS
5 2 (4.00%) DHCP
5 2 (4.00%) Firewall
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.00%) LAN
6 1 (2.00%) SAN
6 1 (2.00%) Skype
6 1 (2.00%) VSAN
6 1 (2.00%) Wireless
6 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.00%) OLAP
2 6 (12.00%) OLTP
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.00%) DB2
6 2 (4.00%) Big Data
6 2 (4.00%) MySQL
6 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.00%) Impala
7 1 (2.00%) Navicat
7 1 (2.00%) PowerPivot
7 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) Postman
3 1 (2.00%) Selenium
3 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (26.00%) Finance
2 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Architect
2 6 (12.00%) AWS Architect
2 6 (12.00%) Azure Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Senior
6 2 (4.00%) Applications Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) .NET
2 7 (14.00%) Web Services
3 6 (12.00%) Apache Camel
3 6 (12.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 6 (12.00%) J2EE
3 6 (12.00%) Kafka
3 6 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (12.00%) SOAP
3 6 (12.00%) Spring
3 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (12.00%) Spring Integration
4 4 (8.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (8.00%) React
4 4 (8.00%) REST
5 3 (6.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (4.00%) JSON
6 2 (4.00%) XML
7 1 (2.00%) ODBC
7 1 (2.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) DataPower
2 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.00%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Android
2 4 (8.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Agile
1 14 (28.00%) DevOps
2 13 (26.00%) Microservices
3 8 (16.00%) Event-Driven
3 8 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (16.00%) OO
4 7 (14.00%) Migration
4 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
4 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.00%) API Management
5 6 (12.00%) Change Management
5 6 (12.00%) CQRS
5 6 (12.00%) Design Patterns
5 6 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (12.00%) OOA/OOD
5 6 (12.00%) SOA
5 6 (12.00%) Technical Debt
5 6 (12.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) Java
2 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.00%) SQL
4 3 (6.00%) C
4 3 (6.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) Python
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) CCIE
3 4 (8.00%) CCNP
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.00%) VCAP
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) MCSE
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.00%) Avamar
4 1 (2.00%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Oracle
3 6 (12.00%) IBM
3 6 (12.00%) TSYS
3 6 (12.00%) VMware
4 4 (8.00%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.00%) Google
6 2 (4.00%) Citrix
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco
7 1 (2.00%) Cognizant
7 1 (2.00%) Databricks
7 1 (2.00%) Dell
7 1 (2.00%) HP
7 1 (2.00%) Meraki
7 1 (2.00%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.00%) Sophos
7 1 (2.00%) Teradata
7 1 (2.00%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (2.00%) Veeam