Azure Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 505 905 1,060
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.90% 16.15% 14.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.57% 44.56% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 702 818
10th Percentile £331 £350 £281
25th Percentile £419 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £605
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 10
10th Percentile £16.55 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £17.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £49.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.24% +117.78% -61.21%
75th Percentile £32.72 £70.00 £56.13
90th Percentile £40.79 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £47.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +30.21% -7.77%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,381 2,031 2,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.80% 36.25% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 1,514 1,915
10th Percentile £268 £300 £189
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £650 £686 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 75
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +66.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £60.88
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £77.50
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North of England 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
North West -8 280 £497 -0.55% 371
Yorkshire -1 199 £500 -9.09% 242
North East -1 32 £533 -11.25% 85
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 23 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 23 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.16%) Confluence
3 17 (3.37%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.79%) Apache
5 4 (0.79%) CMS
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) Kentico
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.39%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (29.50%) AWS
2 84 (16.63%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (15.05%) GCP
4 72 (14.26%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (10.30%) Entra ID
6 42 (8.32%) Power Platform
7 33 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (5.94%) GitHub
8 30 (5.94%) SaaS
9 26 (5.15%) Serverless
10 19 (3.76%) IaaS
11 18 (3.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 18 (3.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (3.17%) Akamai
13 16 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (3.17%) Cloudflare
14 15 (2.97%) Kong
14 15 (2.97%) PaaS
15 12 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.73%) Firewall
2 32 (6.34%) DNS
3 27 (5.35%) VPN
4 20 (3.96%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.77%) WAN
6 13 (2.57%) OSPF
7 12 (2.38%) LAN
8 10 (1.98%) HTTP
8 10 (1.98%) Network Security
8 10 (1.98%) VLAN
9 9 (1.78%) Wireshark
10 8 (1.58%) Wireless
11 7 (1.39%) Ethernet
11 7 (1.39%) Wireless Security
12 6 (1.19%) BGP
12 6 (1.19%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.99%) DHCP
13 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.79%) MPLS
14 4 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (7.13%) SQL Server
3 34 (6.73%) Power BI
4 30 (5.94%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.37%) Big Data
7 16 (3.17%) MySQL
8 14 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (2.57%) Hadoop
9 13 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (2.38%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.78%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.78%) GIS
12 9 (1.78%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (9.11%) Git
2 40 (7.92%) JIRA
3 27 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.15%) GitLab
5 10 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (1.78%) CircleCI
6 9 (1.78%) Travis CI
7 6 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.19%) Hudson
8 5 (0.99%) Selenium
8 5 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.79%) AppScan
9 4 (0.79%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 124 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 48 (9.50%) Public Sector
3 47 (9.31%) Finance
4 45 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.75%) Banking
6 21 (4.16%) Retail
7 10 (1.98%) Law
8 7 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.99%) Legal
11 4 (0.79%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.59%) Automotive
12 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.59%) Local Government
12 3 (0.59%) Marketing
13 2 (0.40%) Advertising
13 2 (0.40%) German Language
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (22.38%) Architect
2 67 (13.27%) Developer
3 50 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
4 49 (9.70%) Solutions Architect
5 44 (8.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (6.53%) Lead
7 31 (6.14%) Analyst
8 30 (5.94%) Senior
9 26 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 20 (3.96%) .NET Developer
10 20 (3.96%) Azure Architect
10 20 (3.96%) Project Manager
11 17 (3.37%) Data Architect
11 17 (3.37%) Network Engineer
12 15 (2.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 15 (2.97%) Security Architect
13 14 (2.77%) Consultant
14 12 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (2.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.33%) .NET
2 19 (3.76%) Kafka
3 18 (3.56%) JSON
4 17 (3.37%) XML
5 14 (2.77%) Web Services
6 13 (2.57%) .NET Core
6 13 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (2.38%) HTML
7 12 (2.38%) REST
7 12 (2.38%) RESTful
7 12 (2.38%) SOAP
7 12 (2.38%) YAML
8 11 (2.18%) .NET Framework
8 11 (2.18%) React
9 10 (1.98%) Entity Framework
9 10 (1.98%) SailPoint
9 10 (1.98%) Spring
10 9 (1.78%) Node.js
11 8 (1.58%) CSS
11 8 (1.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.76%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 15 (2.97%) Public Cloud
4 11 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.18%) NHS
5 10 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.19%) DataPower
7 6 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (1.19%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.19%) Replication
7 6 (1.19%) Security Posture
8 5 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.99%) PKI
9 4 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.48%) Windows
2 44 (8.71%) Linux
3 24 (4.75%) Windows 10
4 18 (3.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.37%) Unix
6 8 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.58%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.79%) Android
8 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.40%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (34.65%) DevOps
2 127 (25.15%) Agile
3 72 (14.26%) CI/CD
4 71 (14.06%) Migration
5 68 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (10.10%) Data Modelling
7 48 (9.50%) Analytics
8 46 (9.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 46 (9.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (8.12%) ETL
11 40 (7.92%) Containerisation
12 39 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (7.33%) Scrum
14 35 (6.93%) Microservices
15 34 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (6.53%) Data Management
17 32 (6.34%) Continuous Integration
17 32 (6.34%) Project Management
18 31 (6.14%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (17.43%) Python
2 86 (17.03%) SQL
3 57 (11.29%) PowerShell
4 40 (7.92%) Java
5 33 (6.53%) C#
6 30 (5.94%) Bash
7 25 (4.95%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.58%) Go
9 8 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.39%) C
10 7 (1.39%) PHP
11 5 (0.99%) Bicep
12 3 (0.59%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.59%) Scala
13 2 (0.40%) Perl
13 2 (0.40%) Ruby
13 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (11.09%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.70%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.52%) Degree
4 18 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.18%) CCNA
7 10 (1.98%) CISSP
8 9 (1.78%) CISM
9 8 (1.58%) CCNP
9 8 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.99%) CCIE
11 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.99%) MCSE
12 4 (0.79%) VCAP
13 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.40%) MCITP
13 2 (0.40%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.34%) QA
2 14 (2.77%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.98%) GDPR
4 7 (1.39%) NIST
5 6 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (16.24%) Active Directory
2 34 (6.73%) Docker
3 20 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.40%) HDFS
8 1 (0.20%) ACF2
8 1 (0.20%) IAG
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) RACF
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (12.48%) Terraform
2 44 (8.71%) Kubernetes
3 39 (7.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (4.95%) Ansible
5 22 (4.36%) Grafana
6 20 (3.96%) Prometheus
7 16 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (2.97%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.97%) Puppet
9 11 (2.18%) SCCM
10 9 (1.78%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.78%) Kibana
10 9 (1.78%) logstash
11 5 (0.99%) Nessus
12 4 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.79%) Graylog
12 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.79%) WebInspect
13 3 (0.59%) Autotask
Vendors
1 163 (32.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.14%) VMware
3 27 (5.35%) Google
4 23 (4.55%) Databricks
5 21 (4.16%) Oracle
6 19 (3.76%) F5
7 15 (2.97%) Splunk
8 12 (2.38%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.18%) Sophos
10 10 (1.98%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.78%) Cisco
12 7 (1.39%) IBM
12 7 (1.39%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.19%) Brio
13 6 (1.19%) TSYS
14 5 (0.99%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.99%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.99%) SAP
15 4 (0.79%) CA
15 4 (0.79%) Citrix