Azure Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,282 4,515 8,195
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.46% 18.33% 18.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.29% 46.42% 44.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,635 3,356 6,085
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 54 52
10th Percentile £21.16 £34.50 £33.25
25th Percentile £22.61 £60.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -47.96% +2.61% +21.37%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £47.00 £75.00 £82.13
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £53.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +15.61% +7.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure.

Azure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Azure daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure.

Azure hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Azure hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 124 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 88 (3.86%) Confluence
3 75 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 29 (1.27%) CMS
6 25 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.79%) Apache
7 18 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
8 10 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
8 10 (0.44%) IIS
9 8 (0.35%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.26%) Kentico
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.26%) SAS
11 5 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.22%) JBoss
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 34 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.31%) Trello
6 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.18%) Sketch
7 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.088%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.044%) InVision
9 1 (0.044%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 55 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.44%) Endur
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.31%) Shopify
6 7 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.088%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.088%) Maximo
9 2 (0.088%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 2 (0.088%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.044%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 573 (25.11%) AWS
2 509 (22.30%) Azure DevOps
3 272 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
4 246 (10.78%) Power Platform
5 235 (10.30%) GCP
6 213 (9.33%) Entra ID
7 146 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
8 132 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 111 (4.86%) Serverless
10 103 (4.51%) GitHub
11 102 (4.47%) PaaS
12 92 (4.03%) SaaS
13 89 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
14 84 (3.68%) IaaS
15 83 (3.64%) PowerApps
16 79 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
17 78 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
18 77 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 72 (3.16%) Azure Functions
20 71 (3.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 156 (6.84%) Firewall
2 87 (3.81%) DNS
3 44 (1.93%) Network Security
3 44 (1.93%) SSL
3 44 (1.93%) VPN
4 41 (1.80%) DHCP
5 30 (1.31%) BGP
5 30 (1.31%) WAN
6 27 (1.18%) LAN
7 22 (0.96%) HTTP
7 22 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.88%) SAN
9 14 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.57%) NAS
11 12 (0.53%) NetScaler
12 10 (0.44%) VLAN
13 9 (0.39%) OSPF
13 9 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.35%) MPLS
14 8 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 165 (7.23%) Power BI
3 115 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (4.60%) Data Lake
5 78 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 62 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
7 59 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 58 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.10%) Big Data
10 34 (1.49%) MySQL
11 32 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 31 (1.36%) MongoDB
13 27 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.92%) Redis
15 19 (0.83%) Tableau
16 18 (0.79%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.70%) RDBMS
18 14 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
19 13 (0.57%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 162 (7.10%) JIRA
2 154 (6.75%) Git
3 76 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.59%) GitLab
5 42 (1.84%) Selenium
6 40 (1.75%) Visual Studio
7 27 (1.18%) SonarQube
8 25 (1.10%) SpecFlow
9 18 (0.79%) Postman
9 18 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.66%) Maven
12 13 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.48%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.35%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 527 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 411 (18.01%) Finance
3 268 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 161 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (3.02%) Banking
6 64 (2.80%) Retail
7 49 (2.15%) Front Office
7 49 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.02%) Marketing
9 42 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 32 (1.40%) Law
12 31 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.18%) Back Office
15 23 (1.01%) General Ledger
15 23 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (0.83%) Electronics
16 19 (0.83%) Legal
17 12 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 480 (21.03%) Developer
2 404 (17.70%) Architect
3 280 (12.27%) Senior
4 179 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
5 159 (6.97%) Lead
6 149 (6.53%) Consultant
7 143 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 134 (5.87%) Analyst
9 116 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 112 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
11 90 (3.94%) Senior Developer
12 88 (3.86%) Azure Developer
13 87 (3.81%) C# Developer
14 86 (3.77%) .NET Developer
15 69 (3.02%) Azure Architect
16 66 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
16 66 (2.89%) Full Stack Developer
17 63 (2.76%) Data Architect
18 60 (2.63%) Azure Data Engineer
19 58 (2.54%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (14.33%) .NET
2 101 (4.43%) XML
3 100 (4.38%) REST
4 97 (4.25%) React
5 96 (4.21%) Web Services
6 79 (3.46%) ARM Templates
7 76 (3.33%) .NET Core
7 76 (3.33%) .NET Framework
8 72 (3.16%) CSS
9 71 (3.11%) HTML
10 64 (2.80%) AngularJS
10 64 (2.80%) ASP.NET
11 63 (2.76%) JSON
12 50 (2.19%) Node.js
13 49 (2.15%) RESTful
14 44 (1.93%) Kafka
15 43 (1.88%) PySpark
16 37 (1.62%) Middleware
17 35 (1.53%) SOAP
17 35 (1.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 70 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 63 (2.76%) Data Centre
3 63 (2.76%) PKI
4 60 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 59 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 42 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
6 42 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 41 (1.80%) Derivative
8 39 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 32 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 31 (1.36%) Replication
11 30 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 27 (1.18%) Private Cloud
13 25 (1.10%) NHS
14 24 (1.05%) Fixed Income
14 24 (1.05%) Hedge funds
15 23 (1.01%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 293 (12.84%) Windows
2 162 (7.10%) Linux
3 108 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.45%) Unix
6 32 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.70%) Android
11 11 (0.48%) Solaris
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) AIX
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.088%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (37.16%) DevOps
2 585 (25.64%) Agile
3 335 (14.68%) CI/CD
4 271 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
5 270 (11.83%) Migration
6 216 (9.47%) Analytics
7 206 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
8 164 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 163 (7.14%) Software Engineering
10 157 (6.88%) Data Modelling
11 156 (6.84%) Scrum
12 148 (6.49%) Microservices
12 148 (6.49%) Test Automation
13 141 (6.18%) ETL
14 122 (5.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 114 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
16 107 (4.69%) Computer Science
17 104 (4.56%) Containerisation
18 103 (4.51%) ITIL
19 97 (4.25%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 452 (19.81%) SQL
2 381 (16.70%) C#
3 371 (16.26%) Python
4 251 (11.00%) PowerShell
5 161 (7.06%) JavaScript
6 132 (5.78%) Java
7 85 (3.72%) Bicep
8 77 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 64 (2.80%) Bash
10 30 (1.31%) Scala
11 28 (1.23%) Go
12 27 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 26 (1.14%) R
14 24 (1.05%) VB
15 19 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 18 (0.79%) VBScript
17 17 (0.74%) C++
17 17 (0.74%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.57%) PHP
18 13 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 335 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 267 (11.70%) SC Cleared
3 223 (9.77%) Degree
4 85 (3.72%) Azure Certification
4 85 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 70 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 21 (0.92%) CISSP
10 20 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 15 (0.66%) PMP
13 13 (0.57%) CISM
14 12 (0.53%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 7 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.33%) QA
2 53 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.67%) GDPR
4 36 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.45%) NIST
6 30 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.27%) NCSC
8 23 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
10 11 (0.48%) WCAG
11 10 (0.44%) SLA
12 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.35%) PMO
13 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.22%) COBIT
14 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.18%) PSD2
15 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.13%) GxP
System Software
1 314 (13.76%) Active Directory
2 175 (7.67%) Docker
3 56 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 43 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 38 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.79%) vSphere
8 7 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.13%) Firmware
12 2 (0.088%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.044%) ACF2
13 1 (0.044%) HDFS
13 1 (0.044%) IAG
13 1 (0.044%) UAG
13 1 (0.044%) vCloud
13 1 (0.044%) XenApp
13 1 (0.044%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 234 (10.25%) Terraform
2 229 (10.04%) Kubernetes
3 90 (3.94%) Ansible
4 84 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (1.88%) SCCM
6 41 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (1.71%) SCOM
8 27 (1.18%) Grafana
9 26 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 25 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (0.96%) WSUS
12 21 (0.92%) Puppet
13 16 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
13 16 (0.70%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.35%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.35%) Kibana
15 8 (0.35%) Podman
16 7 (0.31%) Argo
17 6 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 697 (30.54%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.44%) Databricks
3 126 (5.52%) Oracle
4 104 (4.56%) VMware
5 69 (3.02%) Google
6 58 (2.54%) SAP
7 47 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.97%) Splunk
9 44 (1.93%) Cisco
10 39 (1.71%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 34 (1.49%) Citrix
12 26 (1.14%) Salesforce
13 22 (0.96%) Informatica
14 20 (0.88%) HP
14 20 (0.88%) IBM
14 20 (0.88%) NetApp
14 20 (0.88%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.88%) Qualys
15 19 (0.83%) F5