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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,285 4,328 8,101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.57% 18.13% 18.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.54% 45.98% 44.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 3,207 6,071
10th Percentile £374 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £647
90th Percentile £700 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 53 46
10th Percentile £21.16 £25.70 £42.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £54.00 £52.81
Median hourly rate £35.00 £66.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% - +26.32%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile £47.00 £75.00 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £54.00
% change year-on-year -43.41% +14.54% +4.85%

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 5,372 9,412 18,112
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.43% 41.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,879 7,012 13,586
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 129 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £51.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.02% +27.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £52.31 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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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 9 June 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 9 June 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 81 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 73 (3.19%) Confluence
4 42 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 30 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.31%) CMS
6 21 (0.92%) Apache
7 14 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
8 10 (0.44%) IIS
8 10 (0.44%) Umbraco
9 9 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
10 7 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.31%) SAS
11 6 (0.26%) Kentico
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 4 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.31%) Trello
6 4 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.13%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.13%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.044%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 61 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (0.57%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.31%) Endur
6 7 (0.31%) Shopify
6 7 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 6 (0.26%) Maximo
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.088%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.088%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 2 (0.088%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payroll
11 1 (0.044%) SAP CRM
11 1 (0.044%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 571 (24.99%) AWS
2 504 (22.06%) Azure DevOps
3 273 (11.95%) Microsoft 365
4 242 (10.59%) Power Platform
5 237 (10.37%) GCP
6 220 (9.63%) Entra ID
7 154 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
8 112 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 105 (4.60%) GitHub
10 103 (4.51%) PaaS
11 101 (4.42%) Serverless
12 94 (4.11%) SaaS
13 86 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 86 (3.76%) IaaS
13 86 (3.76%) PowerApps
14 73 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
14 73 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 71 (3.11%) Power Automate
16 70 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 69 (3.02%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 155 (6.78%) Firewall
2 83 (3.63%) DNS
3 46 (2.01%) VPN
4 45 (1.97%) Network Security
5 39 (1.71%) DHCP
5 39 (1.71%) SSL
6 30 (1.31%) WAN
7 26 (1.14%) BGP
7 26 (1.14%) LAN
8 20 (0.88%) HTTP
8 20 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.83%) SAN
10 14 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.53%) 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%) VoIP
15 7 (0.31%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (12.21%) SQL Server
2 159 (6.96%) Power BI
3 116 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (4.64%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 60 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 55 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.36%) Big Data
9 53 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (1.36%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.36%) MySQL
11 30 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (1.14%) Tableau
13 21 (0.92%) Redis
14 20 (0.88%) Delta Lake
15 19 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.66%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 151 (6.61%) Git
2 149 (6.52%) JIRA
3 69 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.41%) GitLab
5 47 (2.06%) Selenium
6 37 (1.62%) Visual Studio
7 27 (1.18%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.01%) SpecFlow
9 19 (0.83%) Postman
10 17 (0.74%) Maven
11 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 15 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.57%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.53%) JMeter
15 11 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.48%) WebDriver
16 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.39%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 534 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 427 (18.69%) Finance
3 258 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 174 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (3.11%) Banking
6 69 (3.02%) Retail
7 45 (1.97%) Front Office
7 45 (1.97%) Manufacturing
8 41 (1.79%) Marketing
9 39 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.27%) Law
12 28 (1.23%) Back Office
13 27 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.09%) General Ledger
15 22 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (0.92%) Legal
17 17 (0.74%) Electronics
18 12 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 476 (20.83%) Developer
2 398 (17.42%) Architect
3 285 (12.47%) Senior
4 179 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
5 163 (7.13%) Consultant
6 155 (6.78%) Lead
7 145 (6.35%) Data Engineer
8 127 (5.56%) Analyst
9 108 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
10 98 (4.29%) Senior Developer
11 88 (3.85%) .NET Developer
12 83 (3.63%) C# Developer
13 82 (3.59%) Azure Developer
14 72 (3.15%) Azure Architect
15 65 (2.84%) Full Stack Developer
16 63 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
16 63 (2.76%) Technical Architect
17 60 (2.63%) Azure Data Engineer
17 60 (2.63%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (14.79%) .NET
2 102 (4.46%) XML
3 100 (4.38%) REST
4 99 (4.33%) React
5 98 (4.29%) Web Services
6 83 (3.63%) HTML
7 81 (3.54%) ARM Templates
8 79 (3.46%) .NET Framework
9 78 (3.41%) CSS
10 77 (3.37%) .NET Core
11 71 (3.11%) ASP.NET
12 62 (2.71%) JSON
13 61 (2.67%) AngularJS
14 53 (2.32%) RESTful
15 51 (2.23%) PySpark
16 49 (2.14%) Node.js
17 48 (2.10%) Kafka
18 41 (1.79%) Middleware
19 38 (1.66%) SAML
20 33 (1.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (3.76%) Product Ownership
2 72 (3.15%) Data Structures
3 70 (3.06%) Public Cloud
4 63 (2.76%) PKI
5 60 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 58 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 41 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 40 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 38 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.44%) Replication
12 32 (1.40%) Derivative
12 32 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 24 (1.05%) NHS
16 22 (0.96%) Private Cloud
16 22 (0.96%) Security Posture
17 21 (0.92%) Hedge funds
18 20 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 294 (12.87%) Windows
2 155 (6.78%) Linux
3 105 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.10%) Windows 10
5 38 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (1.40%) Unix
7 27 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.70%) Android
12 11 (0.48%) Solaris
12 11 (0.48%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) AIX
13 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.088%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (36.37%) DevOps
2 577 (25.25%) Agile
3 327 (14.31%) CI/CD
4 285 (12.47%) Migration
5 272 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (9.23%) Analytics
7 194 (8.49%) Business Intelligence
8 163 (7.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 163 (7.13%) Software Engineering
9 157 (6.87%) Data Modelling
10 154 (6.74%) Scrum
11 150 (6.56%) Test Automation
12 144 (6.30%) ETL
13 136 (5.95%) Microservices
14 122 (5.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 117 (5.12%) Computer Science
16 111 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
17 110 (4.81%) Containerisation
18 99 (4.33%) CRM
19 98 (4.29%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 459 (20.09%) SQL
2 385 (16.85%) C#
3 355 (15.54%) Python
4 249 (10.90%) PowerShell
5 165 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 143 (6.26%) Java
7 90 (3.94%) Bicep
8 73 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 59 (2.58%) Bash
10 30 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.23%) Go
12 27 (1.18%) VB
13 26 (1.14%) Scala
14 24 (1.05%) R
15 21 (0.92%) VBScript
16 18 (0.79%) C++
17 17 (0.74%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.61%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 322 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 235 (10.28%) Degree
4 91 (3.98%) Azure Certification
5 82 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 73 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 32 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (0.88%) CISSP
13 15 (0.66%) PMP
14 12 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.53%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.48%) CISM
16 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
19 6 (0.26%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.41%) QA
2 57 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.66%) GDPR
4 36 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (1.58%) NIST
5 31 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 27 (1.18%) NCSC
7 25 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
9 13 (0.57%) WCAG
10 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.35%) SLA
11 7 (0.31%) PMO
12 6 (0.26%) COBIT
12 6 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.18%) PSD2
14 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.13%) GPG13
System Software
1 315 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 178 (7.79%) Docker
3 56 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 44 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 42 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 28 (1.23%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.79%) vSphere
8 7 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.13%) Firmware
10 3 (0.13%) HDFS
11 2 (0.088%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.088%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.044%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.044%) RACF
12 1 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 236 (10.33%) Terraform
2 232 (10.15%) Kubernetes
3 88 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 86 (3.76%) Ansible
5 49 (2.14%) SCCM
6 39 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (1.66%) SCOM
8 28 (1.23%) Grafana
9 24 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (1.05%) Prometheus
9 24 (1.05%) WSUS
10 21 (0.92%) Puppet
11 16 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 14 (0.61%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.39%) Podman
14 8 (0.35%) Data Guard
15 7 (0.31%) Argo
15 7 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.26%) Kibana
16 6 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 702 (30.72%) Microsoft
2 150 (6.56%) Databricks
3 122 (5.34%) Oracle
4 99 (4.33%) VMware
5 69 (3.02%) Google
6 53 (2.32%) SAP
6 53 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.88%) Splunk
8 39 (1.71%) Cisco
8 39 (1.71%) CyberArk
9 34 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 33 (1.44%) Citrix
11 29 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.01%) Zscaler
13 22 (0.96%) NetApp
14 21 (0.92%) Informatica
14 21 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.92%) Qualys
15 19 (0.83%) F5
15 19 (0.83%) Palo Alto