Azure Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 14 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure 17 24 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.59% 9.76% 11.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.64% 29.63% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 34
10th Percentile £405 £403 £336
25th Percentile £415 £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +16.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £553 £565 £534
90th Percentile £575 £713 £617
East of England median daily rate £451 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.28% -5.26% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £24.62 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +100.00% -20.45%

All Cloud Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 44 81 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 19.64% 32.93% 42.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 56 111
10th Percentile £205 £208 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +4.75% +4.21%
75th Percentile £556 £577 £575
90th Percentile £650 £647 £630
East of England median daily rate £451 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.28% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £23.18 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £33.99 £23.79 £26.98
Median hourly rate £51.99 £24.62 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year +111.17% -61.30% +177.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.03 £71.38
90th Percentile £80.80 £56.57 £77.13
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -25.91% +41.94% +3.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Essex

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Essex

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Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Essex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Essex 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
Colchester +3 10 £519 +75.85% 2
Chelmsford +1 1 £575 - 2
Azure
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 9 (52.94%) IIS
2 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
1 4 (23.53%) Wireshark
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
1 3 (17.65%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Fiddler
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Local Government
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Web Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) SharePoint Administrator
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Qlik Developer
3 3 (17.65%) QlikView Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Web Applications Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Web Applications Support
3 3 (17.65%) Web Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
2 4 (23.53%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Load Balancing
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Line Management
4 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) ArchiMate
5 2 (11.76%) BPMN
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) IT4IT
6 1 (5.88%) Data Management
6 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Modelling
6 1 (5.88%) People Management
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Management
6 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) COBIT
2 1 (5.88%) ISO 22301
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) SCOM
2 4 (23.53%) SCCM
2 4 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) F5
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Sparx
2 1 (5.88%) VMware