Azure Storage Contracts

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 592 697
Rank change year-on-year +97 +105 -157
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 89 105 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.52% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 61 109
10th Percentile £400 £385 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +10.09%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £756
90th Percentile £738 £813 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +0.83% +9.09% +20.55%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Storage falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +79 87 £605 -6.92% 37
London +73 49 £581 -16.96% 13
Work from Home +125 45 £605 +0.83% 28
UK excluding London +33 32 £605 +0.83% 24
South East +29 25 £605 -13.57% 5
South West +3 4 £513 -33.87% 9
North of England +9 3 £513 +7.89% 3
North West - 3 £513 - 1

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (24.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.62%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.25%) IIS
5 1 (1.12%) CMS
5 1 (1.12%) Drupal
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (50.56%) Entra ID
3 30 (33.71%) Azure Monitor
4 29 (32.58%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (28.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 25 (28.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 25 (28.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 24 (26.97%) Azure Functions
6 24 (26.97%) Serverless
7 20 (22.47%) PaaS
8 19 (21.35%) Azure API Management
8 19 (21.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (19.10%) Power Platform
10 11 (12.36%) Power Automate
11 9 (10.11%) AWS
11 9 (10.11%) Azure App Service
12 8 (8.99%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (8.99%) IaaS
12 8 (8.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (29.21%) Firewall
2 25 (28.09%) DNS
3 24 (26.97%) DHCP
4 5 (5.62%) VPN
5 4 (4.49%) Intranet
6 1 (1.12%) HTTP
6 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.12%) SSH
6 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (35.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (16.85%) SQL Server
3 10 (11.24%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.87%) OLTP
6 6 (6.74%) Big Data
7 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.62%) Power BI
7 5 (5.62%) Redis
8 2 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.25%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (2.25%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.25%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.25%) MySQL
8 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Git
2 10 (11.24%) Postman
3 7 (7.87%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (5.62%) GitLab
5 4 (4.49%) Selenium
6 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.12%) Maven
6 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Banking
4 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.37%) Retail
6 2 (2.25%) Law
6 2 (2.25%) Legal
6 2 (2.25%) Police
7 1 (1.12%) Front Office
7 1 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (37.08%) Developer
2 21 (23.60%) Active Directory Support
3 19 (21.35%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (16.85%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (15.73%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (15.73%) Support Specialist
6 11 (12.36%) Senior
7 10 (11.24%) Python Developer
8 8 (8.99%) Active Directory Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.99%) Support Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Lead
10 6 (6.74%) .NET Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Architect
10 6 (6.74%) Data Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior Python Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Applications Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Consultant
11 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.58%) ARM Templates
2 17 (19.10%) .NET
3 16 (17.98%) Web Services
4 10 (11.24%) Swagger
5 7 (7.87%) .NET Core
5 7 (7.87%) JSON
6 6 (6.74%) XML
7 5 (5.62%) Blazor
8 4 (4.49%) pytest
8 4 (4.49%) SPFx
8 4 (4.49%) YAML
9 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.37%) PySpark
10 2 (2.25%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.25%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.25%) Kafka
10 2 (2.25%) RESTful
11 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.12%) Flask
11 1 (1.12%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.60%) PKI
1 21 (23.60%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.49%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.12%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 41 (46.07%) Windows
2 28 (31.46%) Linux
2 28 (31.46%) Windows Server
3 22 (24.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (23.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (6.74%) VMS
6 5 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (4.49%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (2.25%) Unix
9 1 (1.12%) CentOS
9 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (59.55%) Agile
2 48 (53.93%) CI/CD
3 38 (42.70%) DevOps
4 32 (35.96%) Analytics
5 28 (31.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (24.72%) Log Analytics
7 21 (23.60%) Identity Management
7 21 (23.60%) ITIL
7 21 (23.60%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 21 (23.60%) Privileged Identity Management
7 21 (23.60%) RBAC
7 21 (23.60%) Release Management
7 21 (23.60%) Service Management
8 20 (22.47%) API Management
8 20 (22.47%) Migration
9 19 (21.35%) TDD
10 17 (19.10%) Microservices
11 16 (17.98%) Software Engineering
12 12 (13.48%) Scrum
13 11 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.31%) C#
2 40 (44.94%) SQL
3 32 (35.96%) PowerShell
4 24 (26.97%) Bicep
5 23 (25.84%) Python
6 21 (23.60%) VB
6 21 (23.60%) VBScript
7 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.87%) PL/SQL
8 7 (7.87%) T-SQL
9 6 (6.74%) Java
10 5 (5.62%) C++
10 5 (5.62%) Go
11 4 (4.49%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (3.37%) Bash
13 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 28 (31.46%) SC Cleared
3 27 (30.34%) Degree
4 21 (23.60%) DV Cleared
4 21 (23.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) QA
System Software
1 48 (53.93%) Active Directory
2 31 (34.83%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (24.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (6.74%) Docker
5 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (44.94%) Kubernetes
2 26 (29.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (23.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (23.60%) SCCM
3 21 (23.60%) SCOM
3 21 (23.60%) WSUS
4 15 (16.85%) Terraform
5 4 (4.49%) Grafana
5 4 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.12%) yum
Vendors
1 59 (66.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.99%) Oracle
3 6 (6.74%) Databricks
4 5 (5.62%) MuleSoft
4 5 (5.62%) VMware
5 4 (4.49%) CA
6 2 (2.25%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) NetApp
7 1 (1.12%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.12%) Sybase