Azure Contracts in Kent

Microsoft Azure
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 7 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 20 26 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 9.30% 12.50% 14.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.14% 44.07% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 37
10th Percentile £375 £363 £232
25th Percentile £399 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% +4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £540 £749 £638
90th Percentile £575 £788 £659
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +6.06%

All Cloud Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35 59 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 16.28% 28.37% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 44 77
10th Percentile £161 £152 £191
25th Percentile £203 £217 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% -1.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £540 £657 £594
90th Percentile £662 £788 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £27.83 £21.00
% change year-on-year +7.80% +32.52% -0.24%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Kent

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Kent

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Kent

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Kent 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
West Malling - 5 £540 - 2
Maidstone 0 3 £195 -64.38% 16
Tunbridge Wells 0 2 £500 - 2
Gravesend - 2 - -
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Information Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Information Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Change Management
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (25.00%) Information Security
1 5 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
1 5 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) ETL
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (10.00%) Information Security Management
4 2 (10.00%) Security Management
4 2 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CISM
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks