Azure Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 296 586 746
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.00% 17.87% 14.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.11% 51.95% 44.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 422 581
10th Percentile £293 £313 £356
25th Percentile £374 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £20.73 £13.84 -
25th Percentile £21.90 £17.72 £32.50
Median hourly rate £25.23 £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -24.34% +61.22%
75th Percentile £29.93 - £37.50
90th Percentile £31.92 £28.59 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £47.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +30.21% -7.77%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 671 1,128 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.93% 34.39% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 811 1,217
10th Percentile £190 £223 £200
25th Percentile £319 £369 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 32
10th Percentile - £14.66 £13.65
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.20
Median hourly rate £21.23 £18.86 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year +12.54% -0.08% +25.83%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.41 £22.63
90th Percentile £31.53 £26.48 £25.10
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands -7 216 £550 +4.76% 307
East Midlands -5 81 £445 -1.11% 180
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 31 (10.47%) SharePoint
2 20 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.01%) CMS
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
3 3 (1.01%) Drupal
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.68%) IIS
4 2 (0.68%) WordPress
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.01%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (1.01%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (20.27%) AWS
3 52 (17.57%) Power Platform
4 49 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (9.46%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (7.09%) Power Automate
7 19 (6.42%) Serverless
8 18 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (6.08%) SaaS
9 17 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (5.74%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (5.74%) GCP
10 16 (5.41%) Azure Functions
10 16 (5.41%) PowerApps
11 15 (5.07%) OneDrive
12 13 (4.39%) PaaS
13 9 (3.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.43%) DNS
2 21 (7.09%) Firewall
3 15 (5.07%) VPN
4 13 (4.39%) Network Security
5 10 (3.38%) SAN
6 8 (2.70%) LAN
6 8 (2.70%) NetScaler
6 8 (2.70%) WAN
7 6 (2.03%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.69%) SSL
9 3 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.01%) NAS
9 3 (1.01%) VLAN
9 3 (1.01%) VoIP
9 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.68%) Wireless
11 1 (0.34%) IPsec
11 1 (0.34%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.85%) Power BI
2 37 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 20 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (4.73%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.38%) Big Data
6 8 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.03%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.69%) DB2
9 5 (1.69%) MySQL
9 5 (1.69%) OLAP
10 4 (1.35%) Metadata
10 4 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.01%) OLTP
11 3 (1.01%) Tableau
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.07%) Git
2 8 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.36%) JIRA
4 6 (2.03%) Selenium
5 4 (1.35%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.35%) NUnit
6 3 (1.01%) Hudson
6 3 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.01%) Subversion
7 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.68%) kappa
7 2 (0.68%) Moq
7 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 72 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.24%) Finance
3 25 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.74%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.05%) Banking
6 10 (3.38%) Legal
6 10 (3.38%) Retail
7 6 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.01%) German Language
10 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.68%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (20.27%) Architect
2 52 (17.57%) Developer
3 31 (10.47%) Analyst
4 27 (9.12%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (7.09%) Azure Architect
5 21 (7.09%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.09%) Senior
6 16 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (3.72%) Consultant
7 11 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (3.72%) Lead
8 10 (3.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 10 (3.38%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.38%) Test Analyst
9 9 (3.04%) Administrator
9 9 (3.04%) Data Architect
9 9 (3.04%) IT Manager
10 8 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (2.70%) Service Delivery Manager
10 8 (2.70%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.82%) .NET
2 10 (3.38%) OAuth
2 10 (3.38%) React
3 9 (3.04%) RESTful
3 9 (3.04%) SAML
4 8 (2.70%) .NET Framework
5 7 (2.36%) Web Services
5 7 (2.36%) XML
6 6 (2.03%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.03%) HTML
7 5 (1.69%) CSS
7 5 (1.69%) Entity Framework
7 5 (1.69%) JSON
7 5 (1.69%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.35%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.35%) ADO
8 4 (1.35%) LDAP
8 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.35%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.07%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.38%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.03%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.03%) PKI
7 5 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.35%) Clustering
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.35%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.35%) NHS
8 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.35%) Replication
9 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.27%) Windows
2 32 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.74%) Windows 10
4 15 (5.07%) Apple iOS
5 14 (4.73%) Linux
6 12 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.70%) Android
9 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
10 6 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.35%) VMS
12 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.68%) Unix
13 1 (0.34%) AIX
13 1 (0.34%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (27.03%) DevOps
2 67 (22.64%) Agile
3 48 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (14.19%) Migration
5 32 (10.81%) Analytics
6 29 (9.80%) CI/CD
7 26 (8.78%) ETL
8 22 (7.43%) ITIL
9 21 (7.09%) Data Modelling
10 20 (6.76%) Change Management
11 19 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (6.42%) Roadmaps
12 18 (6.08%) Decision-Making
13 17 (5.74%) Computer Science
13 17 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (5.74%) Machine Learning
13 17 (5.74%) Microservices
13 17 (5.74%) SDLC
13 17 (5.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (21.96%) SQL
2 45 (15.20%) PowerShell
3 29 (9.80%) C#
4 25 (8.45%) Python
5 12 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.70%) Bicep
6 8 (2.70%) Java
6 8 (2.70%) Swift
6 8 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.36%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.03%) Bash
9 5 (1.69%) C
10 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.34%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.34%) Rust
12 1 (0.34%) Scala
12 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.34%) X++
Qualifications
1 27 (9.12%) Degree
1 27 (9.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.73%) Azure Certification
4 13 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.03%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.69%) CISSP
6 5 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.35%) ISEB
7 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.35%) PMP
8 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.01%) CCNA
8 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) CEH
9 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.76%) QA
2 5 (1.69%) SLA
3 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) GRC
5 1 (0.34%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (17.57%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.05%) Docker
5 11 (3.72%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (2.70%) XenApp
7 8 (2.70%) XenDesktop
8 4 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.35%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.76%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (6.42%) Terraform
4 13 (4.39%) SCCM
5 12 (4.05%) Ansible
6 11 (3.72%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.69%) SysTrack
8 3 (1.01%) Autotask
8 3 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.68%) Kibana
9 2 (0.68%) logstash
10 1 (0.34%) linkerd
10 1 (0.34%) PowerBroker
10 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.34%) Puppet
10 1 (0.34%) Rancher
10 1 (0.34%) SCOM
10 1 (0.34%) SELinux
Vendors
1 113 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.09%) VMware
3 18 (6.08%) Databricks
4 16 (5.41%) Citrix
4 16 (5.41%) Oracle
5 11 (3.72%) Okta
6 10 (3.38%) NetApp
7 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco
8 5 (1.69%) New Relic
8 5 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.35%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.35%) F5
9 4 (1.35%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.35%) SAP
9 4 (1.35%) Workday
10 3 (1.01%) Google
10 3 (1.01%) PeopleSoft