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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,914 7,933 11,700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.51% 16.46% 16.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.18% 45.09% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,614 5,875 8,649
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £448 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 71 49
10th Percentile £17.80 £19.00 £17.51
25th Percentile £22.40 £25.74 £32.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £60.70 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.34% +27.79% -8.21%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £60.70 £53.50
% change year-on-year -42.34% +13.46% +7.00%

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 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 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
London 0 2,895 £550 -8.33% 1,275
South East -5 583 £550 -2.22% 506
North of England -5 507 £500 -4.76% 670
South West -2 350 £500 -9.09% 355
Midlands -8 293 £525 +9.38% 495
North West -8 280 £497 -0.55% 366
West Midlands -7 214 £550 +4.76% 298
Yorkshire 0 201 £500 -9.09% 227
East of England -31 79 £500 +11.11% 178
East Midlands -5 78 £454 +1.40% 196
North East -4 32 £533 -11.25% 80
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
1 319 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 220 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 153 (3.11%) Confluence
4 125 (2.54%) Apache
5 86 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
6 85 (1.73%) Apache Spark
7 40 (0.81%) CMS
8 39 (0.79%) IIS
9 36 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
10 16 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
11 12 (0.24%) nginx
12 11 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.20%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 8 (0.16%) JBoss
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 8 (0.16%) SAS
15 8 (0.16%) Site Server
16 7 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
16 7 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 103 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.061%) Trello
9 2 (0.041%) Sketch
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.020%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.020%) InDesign
10 1 (0.020%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.020%) InVision
10 1 (0.020%) Marvel
10 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 109 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 17 (0.35%) Endur
4 17 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 12 (0.24%) Temenos T24
7 10 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 9 (0.18%) Shopify
9 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.14%) Aladdin
11 6 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 6 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
12 5 (0.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
12 5 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
13 4 (0.081%) SAP HR
14 3 (0.061%) BusinessWorks
14 3 (0.061%) Primavera
14 3 (0.061%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,274 (25.93%) AWS
2 1,030 (20.96%) Azure DevOps
3 611 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
4 569 (11.58%) Power Platform
5 567 (11.54%) GCP
6 514 (10.46%) Entra ID
7 306 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 269 (5.47%) Serverless
9 241 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
10 192 (3.91%) GitHub
10 192 (3.91%) PaaS
11 190 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
12 187 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 176 (3.58%) Azure Functions
14 175 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
15 165 (3.36%) PowerApps
16 162 (3.30%) IaaS
16 162 (3.30%) SaaS
17 161 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
18 160 (3.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 356 (7.24%) Firewall
2 217 (4.42%) DNS
3 133 (2.71%) VPN
4 98 (1.99%) WAN
5 93 (1.89%) DHCP
6 91 (1.85%) Network Security
7 89 (1.81%) LAN
8 70 (1.42%) BGP
9 68 (1.38%) SAN
10 66 (1.34%) SSL
11 64 (1.30%) TCP/IP
12 45 (0.92%) MPLS
13 42 (0.85%) HTTP
13 42 (0.85%) OSPF
13 42 (0.85%) Wireless
14 40 (0.81%) VLAN
15 36 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 30 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
17 28 (0.57%) Internet
18 23 (0.47%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (11.99%) SQL Server
2 436 (8.87%) Power BI
3 264 (5.37%) Data Lake
4 244 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
5 208 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 202 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 173 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 139 (2.83%) Big Data
9 108 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 96 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 86 (1.75%) MySQL
12 77 (1.57%) MongoDB
13 68 (1.38%) Tableau
14 64 (1.30%) Apache Ignite
15 43 (0.88%) Redis
16 39 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 38 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 34 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
19 30 (0.61%) Metadata
19 30 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 350 (7.12%) Git
2 259 (5.27%) JIRA
3 166 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 132 (2.69%) GitLab
5 94 (1.91%) Selenium
6 81 (1.65%) Visual Studio
7 74 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.16%) SpecFlow
9 46 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 36 (0.73%) Postman
11 33 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 28 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 26 (0.53%) JMeter
13 26 (0.53%) Maven
14 22 (0.45%) CircleCI
14 22 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 19 (0.39%) Artifactory
15 19 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 17 (0.35%) NUnit
General
1 1,125 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 1,027 (20.90%) Finance
3 471 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 445 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 325 (6.61%) Banking
6 194 (3.95%) Front Office
7 122 (2.48%) Marketing
8 121 (2.46%) Retail
9 91 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 84 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 79 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 69 (1.40%) Back Office
12 69 (1.40%) Legal
13 60 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
14 55 (1.12%) Law
15 52 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 46 (0.94%) Electronics
16 46 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.94%) Investment Banking
17 39 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 981 (19.96%) Developer
2 828 (16.85%) Architect
3 522 (10.62%) Senior
4 433 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
5 358 (7.29%) Analyst
6 316 (6.43%) Data Engineer
7 289 (5.88%) Lead
8 251 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
9 234 (4.76%) Consultant
10 222 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 216 (4.40%) Software Engineer
12 183 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 180 (3.66%) Senior Developer
14 174 (3.54%) .NET Developer
15 158 (3.22%) Full Stack Developer
16 156 (3.17%) Azure Developer
17 147 (2.99%) Python Developer
18 141 (2.87%) Azure Architect
19 139 (2.83%) Data Architect
20 135 (2.75%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 686 (13.96%) .NET
2 305 (6.21%) React
3 211 (4.29%) .NET Core
4 205 (4.17%) XML
5 190 (3.87%) HTML
6 183 (3.72%) REST
7 167 (3.40%) .NET Framework
8 156 (3.17%) AngularJS
9 155 (3.15%) CSS
10 151 (3.07%) Web Services
11 138 (2.81%) Kafka
12 124 (2.52%) PySpark
13 118 (2.40%) JSON
14 116 (2.36%) ASP.NET
15 112 (2.28%) Node.js
16 103 (2.10%) RESTful
17 102 (2.08%) ARM Templates
18 98 (1.99%) Redux
19 82 (1.67%) gRPC
20 81 (1.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 217 (4.42%) Product Ownership
2 131 (2.67%) Public Cloud
3 129 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 119 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 119 (2.42%) Fixed Income
4 119 (2.42%) Hedge funds
5 116 (2.36%) PKI
6 93 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 92 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 85 (1.73%) Derivative
9 83 (1.69%) Equities
10 74 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 67 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 64 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 56 (1.14%) Private Cloud
14 51 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 49 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 49 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
16 45 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
17 42 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 714 (14.53%) Windows
2 388 (7.90%) Linux
3 275 (5.60%) Windows Server
4 156 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 85 (1.73%) Unix
6 74 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 68 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 63 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 57 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 42 (0.85%) Android
10 42 (0.85%) Mac OS
11 38 (0.77%) Apple iOS
12 28 (0.57%) VMS
13 17 (0.35%) Windows 7
13 17 (0.35%) Windows XP
14 15 (0.31%) Ubuntu
15 14 (0.28%) Solaris
16 11 (0.22%) Mac OS X
17 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
18 6 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,722 (35.04%) DevOps
2 1,362 (27.72%) Agile
3 761 (15.49%) CI/CD
4 636 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
5 569 (11.58%) Migration
6 492 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
7 465 (9.46%) Software Engineering
8 451 (9.18%) Analytics
9 395 (8.04%) Scrum
10 349 (7.10%) Data Modelling
11 326 (6.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 306 (6.23%) ETL
13 291 (5.92%) Full Stack Development
14 287 (5.84%) Microservices
15 269 (5.47%) ITIL
15 269 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 262 (5.33%) Test Automation
17 256 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 250 (5.09%) Computer Science
19 247 (5.03%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 984 (20.02%) SQL
2 914 (18.60%) Python
3 738 (15.02%) C#
4 659 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 371 (7.55%) JavaScript
6 306 (6.23%) Java
7 252 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 163 (3.32%) Bicep
9 137 (2.79%) Bash
10 94 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 59 (1.20%) C++
12 58 (1.18%) Scala
13 57 (1.16%) Go
14 55 (1.12%) C
15 36 (0.73%) R
16 34 (0.69%) PL/SQL
17 32 (0.65%) VBScript
18 29 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 28 (0.57%) PHP
20 26 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 741 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 547 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 490 (9.97%) Degree
4 244 (4.97%) DV Cleared
5 178 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 158 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 98 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 84 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (1.53%) CISSP
10 60 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 50 (1.02%) CCNA
12 49 (1.00%) CCNP
12 49 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 41 (0.83%) CISM
14 20 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 19 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (0.37%) PMP
17 16 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 15 (0.31%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (4.46%) QA
2 126 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 76 (1.55%) GDPR
3 76 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 72 (1.47%) NIST
5 62 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 54 (1.10%) SLA
7 49 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 39 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
9 25 (0.51%) NCSC
10 23 (0.47%) WCAG
11 20 (0.41%) PMO
12 17 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.24%) GRC
15 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.18%) COBIT
16 9 (0.18%) ISO 20022
17 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 5 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 811 (16.50%) Active Directory
2 353 (7.18%) Docker
3 178 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 114 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 110 (2.24%) Hyper-V
6 70 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 36 (0.73%) vSphere
8 34 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.31%) XenApp
10 11 (0.22%) Firmware
10 11 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.16%) ACF2
12 8 (0.16%) IAG
12 8 (0.16%) RACF
12 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.14%) NFS
14 6 (0.12%) KVM
15 5 (0.10%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 469 (9.54%) Terraform
2 455 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 250 (5.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 206 (4.19%) Ansible
5 142 (2.89%) SCCM
6 105 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 78 (1.59%) SCOM
8 65 (1.32%) Grafana
9 59 (1.20%) Puppet
10 52 (1.06%) Prometheus
11 51 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 43 (0.88%) WSUS
13 39 (0.79%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
15 26 (0.53%) vCenter Server
16 25 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
16 25 (0.51%) Kibana
17 20 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
17 20 (0.41%) logstash
17 20 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 1,634 (33.25%) Microsoft
2 312 (6.35%) Databricks
3 295 (6.00%) Oracle
4 293 (5.96%) VMware
5 212 (4.31%) Google
6 145 (2.95%) SAP
7 130 (2.65%) Cisco
8 103 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 94 (1.91%) Splunk
10 86 (1.75%) Citrix
11 78 (1.59%) CyberArk
12 66 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 65 (1.32%) F5
14 55 (1.12%) Salesforce
15 53 (1.08%) Atlassian
16 48 (0.98%) Veeam
17 46 (0.94%) Dell
17 46 (0.94%) Okta
17 46 (0.94%) Red Hat
18 42 (0.85%) Informatica