Azure Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Azure
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 21 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure 8 54 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.69% 17.20% 21.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.02% 51.92% 59.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 42 59
10th Percentile £161 £406 £263
25th Percentile £163 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% +6.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £500
90th Percentile £583 £675 £619
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.50
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £17.50 £55.84 £22.50
% change year-on-year -68.66% +148.18% -66.34%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 47 104 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 21.66% 33.12% 35.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 78 81
10th Percentile £143 £258 £166
25th Percentile £185 £406 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £236 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -50.26% +11.76% +20.14%
75th Percentile £388 £538 £495
90th Percentile £488 £675 £614
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile - £16.22 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £16.50 £25.16 £18.75
90th Percentile £18.15 £45.15 -
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £27.20 £26.40
% change year-on-year -40.96% +3.05% +44.63%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool -9 8 £425 -9.33% 34
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
2 1 (12.50%) UX Design
2 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MCP
3 1 (12.50%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) MOS
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Sophos