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 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 6 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 200 297 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.70% 13.74% 13.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.65% 41.60% 39.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 234 279
10th Percentile £344 £331 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +6.77%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £700 £710
England median daily rate £545 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £37.75 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +114.00% -55.90%
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -13.64%

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 492 714 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.79% 33.04% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 525 698
10th Percentile £261 £244 £181
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £643 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 18
10th Percentile £13.43 £19.50 £16.18
25th Percentile £14.63 £22.51 £16.62
Median hourly rate £15.00 £32.50 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +72.19% -3.21%
75th Percentile £17.31 £44.50 £22.05
90th Percentile £22.00 £51.40 £22.58
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +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 9 June 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 9 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
West Yorkshire +1 124 £500 -9.09% 135
South Yorkshire -3 61 £500 -9.09% 43
North Yorkshire -13 7 £575 +61.97% 37
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 13 (6.50%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.00%) Confluence
3 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.50%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.00%) Apache
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Kentico
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.00%) AWS
2 54 (27.00%) GCP
3 35 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (11.50%) GitHub
6 19 (9.50%) Entra ID
7 16 (8.00%) Akamai
7 16 (8.00%) Cloudflare
8 15 (7.50%) Serverless
9 11 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (5.50%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (5.50%) Power Platform
10 9 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.50%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 9 (4.50%) IaaS
10 9 (4.50%) Kong
11 7 (3.50%) PaaS
11 7 (3.50%) SaaS
12 6 (3.00%) Apigee
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.50%) Firewall
2 16 (8.00%) DNS
3 9 (4.50%) HTTP
3 9 (4.50%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.50%) VPN
4 6 (3.00%) Network Security
5 5 (2.50%) HTTPS
5 5 (2.50%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.50%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.50%) SSL
7 2 (1.00%) WAN
8 1 (0.50%) DHCP
8 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.50%) Internet
8 1 (0.50%) LAN
8 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 15 (7.50%) Big Data
3 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.00%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (5.50%) BigQuery
5 11 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
7 9 (4.50%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.00%) Power BI
9 7 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.50%) GIS
10 5 (2.50%) InterSystems Cache
10 5 (2.50%) Redis
10 5 (2.50%) Tableau
11 4 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (18.00%) Git
2 28 (14.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.00%) JIRA
4 16 (8.00%) GitLab
5 10 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (4.50%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.50%) Travis CI
7 5 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.00%) AppScan
8 4 (2.00%) Burp Suite
8 4 (2.00%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.00%) Retail
5 9 (4.50%) Finance
6 7 (3.50%) Banking
7 5 (2.50%) Law
8 4 (2.00%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (24.00%) Architect
2 29 (14.50%) Developer
3 26 (13.00%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.50%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Project Manager
8 10 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Analyst
10 8 (4.00%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.00%) Security Architect
11 7 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Lead
12 6 (3.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.00%) Kafka
2 13 (6.50%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (6.00%) XML
4 11 (5.50%) JSON
5 9 (4.50%) .NET
5 9 (4.50%) YAML
6 7 (3.50%) OAuth
7 6 (3.00%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.00%) gRPC
7 6 (3.00%) JWT
7 6 (3.00%) OpenAPI
7 6 (3.00%) RESTful
7 6 (3.00%) SailPoint
7 6 (3.00%) Swagger
8 5 (2.50%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.50%) Node.js
8 5 (2.50%) SignalR
9 4 (2.00%) Web Services
10 3 (1.50%) Blazor
10 3 (1.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.50%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.00%) NHS
3 6 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (3.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.00%) Replication
4 5 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.00%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.50%) Windows
2 16 (8.00%) Linux
3 12 (6.00%) Windows 10
4 9 (4.50%) Unix
5 7 (3.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.50%) DevOps
2 48 (24.00%) Agile
3 40 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 37 (18.50%) Data Modelling
5 33 (16.50%) CI/CD
6 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (12.00%) Analytics
9 24 (12.00%) Migration
10 23 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (10.50%) Data Integration
11 21 (10.50%) ETL
12 18 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (8.50%) Data Governance
13 17 (8.50%) Scrum
14 16 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (8.00%) Project Management
14 16 (8.00%) Task Automation
15 15 (7.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 56 (28.00%) Python
2 38 (19.00%) SQL
3 28 (14.00%) Bash
4 25 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.50%) Java
6 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.50%) C#
8 3 (1.50%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.50%) Go
9 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.00%) PHP
9 2 (1.00%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) ABAP
10 1 (0.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.50%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (6.50%) Degree
2 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
2 11 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.50%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.00%) CCNA
5 2 (1.00%) CCNP
5 2 (1.00%) CISSP
5 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.50%) CEH
6 1 (0.50%) CISM
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.50%) QA
2 8 (4.00%) GDPR
3 6 (3.00%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) GRC
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PMO
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (15.50%) Docker
2 26 (13.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.00%) HDFS
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) ACF2
4 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) IAG
4 1 (0.50%) RACF
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (18.00%) Terraform
2 34 (17.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.00%) Ansible
3 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (7.00%) Progress Chef
3 14 (7.00%) Prometheus
3 14 (7.00%) Puppet
4 13 (6.50%) Grafana
5 9 (4.50%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (4.50%) Kibana
5 9 (4.50%) logstash
6 5 (2.50%) Nessus
7 4 (2.00%) Graylog
7 4 (2.00%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.00%) WebInspect
8 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.50%) Google
3 18 (9.00%) F5
4 15 (7.50%) Splunk
5 7 (3.50%) Brio
5 7 (3.50%) Databricks
6 6 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.50%) SAP
8 4 (2.00%) Checkmarx
8 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.00%) Veracode
8 4 (2.00%) VMware
9 3 (1.50%) Oracle
10 2 (1.00%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.00%) Cisco
10 2 (1.00%) Qualys
10 2 (1.00%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.50%) Confluent
11 1 (0.50%) Intapp
11 1 (0.50%) Thycotic