Azure Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 19 6
Rank change year-on-year -40 -13 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure 16 72 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.90% 9.47% 14.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.88% 45.28% 45.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 84
10th Percentile £255 £228 £400
25th Percentile £325 £300 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -33.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £453 £556 £675
90th Percentile £539 £801 £798
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £490
% change year-on-year - -8.16% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - - £23.30
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £71.50 -
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
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 67 159 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.94% 20.92% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 100 181
10th Percentile £258 £172 £160
25th Percentile £325 £240 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £662
90th Percentile £706 £739 £725
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 7
10th Percentile - - £18.80
25th Percentile - £21.00 £26.75
Median hourly rate £14.41 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.94% +78.57% -7.75%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £36.00
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Hertfordshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Watford 0 9 £350 -22.22% 10
Hemel Hempstead +6 1 £550 +22.22% 7
Welwyn Garden City -1 1 - - 4
Hatfield -12 1 £225 -10.00%
Stevenage -33 1 - - 4
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (31.25%) PaaS
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.25%) Couchbase
2 1 (6.25%) DTS
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (6.25%) Retail
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
1 1 (6.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Applications Support
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
1 5 (31.25%) Support Team Leader
1 5 (31.25%) Team Leader
2 4 (25.00%) Application Support Team Leader
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Micronaut
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
1 1 (6.25%) Sensu
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (6.25%) FMCG
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (12.50%) TDD
2 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
3 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
3 1 (6.25%) Malware Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Server Migrations
3 1 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Nagios
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Google