Azure Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 81 169 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.52% 16.70% 12.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.94% 57.68% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 137 139
10th Percentile £306 £296 £290
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £625 £556 £538
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £13.84 -
25th Percentile £27.75 £17.72 £32.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -24.34% +27.64%
75th Percentile £33.25 - £37.50
90th Percentile - £28.59 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £47.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +30.21% -7.77%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 208 293 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.01% 28.95% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 223 308
10th Percentile £163 £205 £163
25th Percentile £302 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £558 £520
90th Percentile £646 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 16
10th Percentile - £14.19 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £16.20
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.86 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -0.08% +25.83%
75th Percentile £27.50 £25.80 £24.13
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.83 £31.57
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Nottinghamshire -3 24 £550 +7.32% 58
Northamptonshire +9 18 £445 -11.00% 27
Leicestershire -10 15 £588 +39.05% 31
Derbyshire -11 9 £425 -10.99% 40
Lincolnshire +19 8 £625 - 20
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.23%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.57%) AWS
2 17 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (17.28%) Power Platform
4 12 (14.81%) SaaS
5 8 (9.88%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (9.88%) Entra ID
6 7 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (4.94%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.70%) GCP
10 2 (2.47%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.47%) dbt
10 2 (2.47%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.47%) Serverless
11 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.23%) IaaS
11 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Firewall
1 1 (1.23%) LAN
1 1 (1.23%) LTE
1 1 (1.23%) NAS
1 1 (1.23%) SAN
1 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.88%) Power BI
3 7 (8.64%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.17%) Big Data
5 4 (4.94%) DB2
5 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.47%) Metadata
7 2 (2.47%) OLAP
7 2 (2.47%) Tableau
8 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.23%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.23%) NUnit
2 1 (1.23%) Postman
2 1 (1.23%) Selenium
2 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (33.33%) Finance
2 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.58%) Banking
4 8 (9.88%) Legal
5 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Marketing
8 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Games
9 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Architect
2 14 (17.28%) Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (11.11%) IT Manager
5 8 (9.88%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (9.88%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 8 (9.88%) IT Services Manager
5 8 (9.88%) Service Delivery Manager
5 8 (9.88%) Service Manager
6 7 (8.64%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.41%) Analyst
7 6 (7.41%) Azure Architect
7 6 (7.41%) Consultant
7 6 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 6 (7.41%) Senior
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) .NET
2 10 (12.35%) React
3 5 (6.17%) HTML
4 4 (4.94%) CSS
5 3 (3.70%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.70%) jQuery
5 3 (3.70%) LDAP
5 3 (3.70%) OAuth
5 3 (3.70%) OpenID
5 3 (3.70%) Redux
5 3 (3.70%) RESTful
5 3 (3.70%) SailPoint
5 3 (3.70%) SAML
5 3 (3.70%) Web Services
5 3 (3.70%) XML
6 2 (2.47%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.47%) D3.js
6 2 (2.47%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.47%) Highcharts JS
6 2 (2.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.94%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) e-Health
6 1 (1.23%) FMCG
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) LIMS
6 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.23%) PACS
6 1 (1.23%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Apple iOS
2 8 (9.88%) Windows
3 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.17%) Linux
5 4 (4.94%) Android
6 1 (1.23%) AIX
6 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) Unix
6 1 (1.23%) VMS
6 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.16%) Migration
2 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.99%) Agile
4 12 (14.81%) Change Management
4 12 (14.81%) DevOps
5 10 (12.35%) Analytics
5 10 (12.35%) Information Security
5 10 (12.35%) ITSM
5 10 (12.35%) Microservices
5 10 (12.35%) Project Management
5 10 (12.35%) Service Delivery
5 10 (12.35%) Service Management
6 9 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 9 (11.11%) People Management
7 8 (9.88%) Business Analysis
7 8 (9.88%) Data Modelling
7 8 (9.88%) IT Governance
7 8 (9.88%) Performance Metrics
7 8 (9.88%) Problem Management
7 8 (9.88%) Service Delivery Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.52%) SQL
2 11 (13.58%) C#
2 11 (13.58%) JavaScript
3 8 (9.88%) Python
3 8 (9.88%) Swift
4 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.17%) C
5 5 (6.17%) Java
6 3 (3.70%) Bash
7 1 (1.23%) C++
7 1 (1.23%) Rust
7 1 (1.23%) Scala
7 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) GRC
4 1 (1.23%) HL7
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.23%) Docker
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (4.94%) Terraform
2 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) Ansible
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.23%) PowerBroker
3 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Okta
3 8 (9.88%) Databricks
4 3 (3.70%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) VMware
6 1 (1.23%) Ariba
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle
6 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) SAP
6 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) Workday