Azure Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of 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 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 41 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 79 203 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.18% 10.31% 12.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.04% 41.01% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 134 237
10th Percentile £213 £216 £313
25th Percentile £300 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £610
90th Percentile £594 £700 £675
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 6
10th Percentile £64.50 £21.31 £25.25
25th Percentile £65.25 £24.62 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +55.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £65.75 - £55.00
90th Percentile £68.50 - £58.13
England median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £47.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +30.21% -7.77%

All Cloud Skills
East of 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 the East of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 272 495 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.38% 25.14% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 324 546
10th Percentile £213 £186 £185
25th Percentile £298 £300 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -3.95% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 46 61
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.30 £20.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +31.61% +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £54.69 £23.00
90th Percentile £53.45 £70.00 £55.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England 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
Bedfordshire -5 25 £275 -8.33% 17
Essex -1 18 £500 -4.58% 22
Hertfordshire -47 12 £451 +12.81% 57
Suffolk +1 10 £278 -60.36% 9
Cambridgeshire -31 10 £525 +16.67% 57
Norfolk 0 4 £525 +52.17% 16
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 16 (20.25%) SharePoint
2 10 (12.66%) IIS
3 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.53%) Apache
4 2 (2.53%) Confluence
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.27%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.11%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (17.72%) AWS
3 10 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (8.86%) GCP
4 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.80%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.53%) Serverless
6 2 (2.53%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.27%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) VPN
2 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.06%) Wireshark
3 3 (3.80%) Firewall
3 3 (3.80%) LAN
3 3 (3.80%) WAN
3 3 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.53%) BGP
4 2 (2.53%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.53%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.53%) OSPF
4 2 (2.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.27%) MQTT
5 1 (1.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.27%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Power BI
2 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.80%) QlikView
4 2 (2.53%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.27%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.27%) DTS
5 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Fiddler
3 3 (3.80%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.53%) Git
4 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 29 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (5.06%) Marketing
4 4 (5.06%) Retail
5 3 (3.80%) Finance
6 2 (2.53%) Local Government
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Support Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) Developer
3 8 (10.13%) Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Architect
4 7 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Web Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Administrator
6 5 (6.33%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.33%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Consultant
7 4 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) .NET
2 7 (8.86%) .NET Framework
3 5 (6.33%) SAML
4 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.53%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.53%) jQuery
4 2 (2.53%) MFC
4 2 (2.53%) React
4 2 (2.53%) WinForms
4 2 (2.53%) WPF
5 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.27%) Kafka
5 1 (1.27%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.27%) Micronaut
5 1 (1.27%) OAuth
5 1 (1.27%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.27%) RESTful
5 1 (1.27%) SPFx
5 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.33%) iPad
2 5 (6.33%) iPhone
3 3 (3.80%) FMCG
3 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.38%) Windows
2 12 (15.19%) Windows 10
3 7 (8.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Android
4 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) DevOps
2 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (12.66%) ITIL
4 9 (11.39%) Load Balancing
5 8 (10.13%) Agile
5 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (8.86%) Migration
6 7 (8.86%) Project Management
7 6 (7.59%) Analytics
8 5 (6.33%) CI/CD
8 5 (6.33%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (6.33%) PRINCE2
8 5 (6.33%) Product Backlog
8 5 (6.33%) Requirements Engineering
8 5 (6.33%) Software Engineering
8 5 (6.33%) Sprint Review
8 5 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (6.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.66%) C#
2 9 (11.39%) Python
3 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.33%) Java
5 4 (5.06%) C++
5 4 (5.06%) SQL
6 2 (2.53%) C++/CLI
6 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.27%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (6.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) CCNA
3 4 (5.06%) MCSA
3 4 (5.06%) MCSE
4 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.80%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CCNP
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) SLA
2 2 (2.53%) COBIT
2 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (31.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Docker
3 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) SCOM
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.33%) SCCM
5 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.80%) Terraform
7 1 (1.27%) Ansible
7 1 (1.27%) Grafana
7 1 (1.27%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (34.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) F5
3 5 (6.33%) Google
3 5 (6.33%) SAP
4 3 (3.80%) Ariba
4 3 (3.80%) Cisco
4 3 (3.80%) Citrix
4 3 (3.80%) McAfee
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.53%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.27%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.27%) Remedy
6 1 (1.27%) SonicWALL
6 1 (1.27%) Sparx
6 1 (1.27%) VMware