Azure Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 199 311 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.97% 13.96% 13.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.34% 41.74% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 251 276
10th Percentile £280 £331 £323
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.36%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £625
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -55.90%
England median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £47.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +30.21% -7.77%

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 470 745 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.28% 33.44% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 558 699
10th Percentile £257 £250 £181
25th Percentile £400 £418 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £575
90th Percentile £638 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 16
10th Percentile £13.43 £21.63 £16.13
25th Percentile £14.63 £27.81 £16.38
Median hourly rate £15.00 £43.25 £18.63
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +132.21% -5.70%
75th Percentile £17.31 £62.00 £21.35
90th Percentile £22.00 £72.80 £22.58
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 0 124 £500 -9.09% 141
South Yorkshire -4 57 £500 -9.09% 54
North Yorkshire -10 9 £425 +32.81% 38
East Yorkshire 0 1 - - 4
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 11 (5.53%) Apache Spark
1 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.03%) Confluence
3 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.50%) Kentico
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.01%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.01%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.16%) AWS
2 47 (23.62%) GCP
3 32 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (14.57%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (11.56%) GitHub
6 19 (9.55%) Entra ID
7 16 (8.04%) Akamai
7 16 (8.04%) Cloudflare
8 13 (6.53%) Serverless
9 12 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (5.03%) Power Platform
11 9 (4.52%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (4.52%) Kong
12 8 (4.02%) SaaS
13 7 (3.52%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.52%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (3.52%) IaaS
14 6 (3.02%) Apigee
14 6 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.55%) Firewall
2 16 (8.04%) DNS
3 9 (4.52%) HTTP
3 9 (4.52%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.52%) VPN
4 5 (2.51%) HTTPS
4 5 (2.51%) Network Security
4 5 (2.51%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.51%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (1.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.51%) SSL
6 2 (1.01%) WAN
7 1 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.04%) Data Lake
1 14 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.53%) Big Data
3 11 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (5.03%) Hadoop
5 9 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.52%) BigQuery
5 9 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.52%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.02%) Power BI
7 7 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.51%) GIS
9 5 (2.51%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (2.51%) Redis
9 5 (2.51%) Tableau
10 4 (2.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (15.58%) Git
2 26 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.05%) JIRA
4 16 (8.04%) GitLab
5 10 (5.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (4.52%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.52%) Travis CI
7 5 (2.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.01%) AppScan
8 4 (2.01%) Burp Suite
8 4 (2.01%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Subversion
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.54%) Retail
5 10 (5.03%) Finance
6 7 (3.52%) Banking
7 5 (2.51%) Law
8 4 (2.01%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (24.12%) Architect
2 28 (14.07%) Developer
3 23 (11.56%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.53%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.53%) Project Manager
8 10 (5.03%) Analyst
9 8 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.02%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.52%) .NET Developer
10 7 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.52%) Lead
10 7 (3.52%) Senior
11 6 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.02%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) DevOps Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.53%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (6.03%) XML
3 11 (5.53%) JSON
3 11 (5.53%) Kafka
4 9 (4.52%) YAML
5 8 (4.02%) .NET
6 6 (3.02%) SailPoint
7 5 (2.51%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.51%) Node.js
7 5 (2.51%) OAuth
7 5 (2.51%) SignalR
7 5 (2.51%) Web Services
8 4 (2.01%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.01%) Blazor
8 4 (2.01%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.01%) gRPC
8 4 (2.01%) JWT
8 4 (2.01%) OpenAPI
8 4 (2.01%) RESTful
8 4 (2.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.53%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.52%) NHS
3 6 (3.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.02%) Replication
4 4 (2.01%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.51%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.01%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.56%) Windows
2 15 (7.54%) Linux
3 13 (6.53%) Windows 10
4 10 (5.03%) Unix
5 8 (4.02%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.18%) DevOps
2 50 (25.13%) Agile
3 35 (17.59%) Containerisation
4 33 (16.58%) Data Modelling
5 31 (15.58%) CI/CD
6 27 (13.57%) Migration
7 26 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (10.55%) Analytics
11 19 (9.55%) ETL
12 17 (8.54%) Data Integration
12 17 (8.54%) Project Management
12 17 (8.54%) Scrum
13 16 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (7.54%) Data Governance
14 15 (7.54%) Roadmaps
14 15 (7.54%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.13%) Python
2 37 (18.59%) SQL
3 26 (13.07%) Bash
4 21 (10.55%) PowerShell
5 18 (9.05%) Java
6 7 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.51%) C#
8 3 (1.51%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.51%) Go
9 2 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.01%) PHP
9 2 (1.01%) Scala
9 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.50%) ABAP
10 1 (0.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (6.03%) Degree
2 11 (5.53%) SC Cleared
2 11 (5.53%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.01%) CCNA
5 2 (1.01%) CCNP
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.50%) CISM
6 1 (0.50%) CISSP
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.54%) QA
2 6 (3.02%) GDPR
3 4 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.01%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) PMO
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (14.07%) Docker
2 27 (13.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.01%) HDFS
4 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) ACF2
5 1 (0.50%) IAG
5 1 (0.50%) RACF
5 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (15.58%) Terraform
2 30 (15.08%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (7.04%) Ansible
4 14 (7.04%) Progress Chef
4 14 (7.04%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.04%) Puppet
5 13 (6.53%) Grafana
6 9 (4.52%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (4.52%) Kibana
6 9 (4.52%) logstash
7 5 (2.51%) Nessus
8 4 (2.01%) Graylog
8 4 (2.01%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.01%) WebInspect
9 3 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.01%) SCCM
11 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.05%) F5
3 16 (8.04%) Google
4 13 (6.53%) Splunk
5 6 (3.02%) Brio
5 6 (3.02%) CyberArk
5 6 (3.02%) Databricks
6 5 (2.51%) SAP
6 5 (2.51%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.51%) VMware
7 4 (2.01%) Checkmarx
7 4 (2.01%) Oracle
7 4 (2.01%) Veracode
8 2 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.01%) Cisco
8 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.50%) Ariba
9 1 (0.50%) Citrix
9 1 (0.50%) ESRI
9 1 (0.50%) Forcepoint