Azure Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -33 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 78 194 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.03% 9.95% 12.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.47% 40.00% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 127 238
10th Percentile £220 £220 £313
25th Percentile £300 £316 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £613
90th Percentile £588 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £64.50 £21.31 £27.20
25th Percentile £65.25 £24.62 -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +100.00% -20.45%
75th Percentile £65.75 - £45.00
90th Percentile £68.50 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -13.64%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 274 485 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.16% 24.87% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 325 559
10th Percentile £221 £182 £187
25th Percentile £313 £300 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £573 £590 £611
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 38 61
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.95 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% +41.94% +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £65.25 £23.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £70.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bedfordshire -5 24 £375 +25.00% 11
Essex 0 17 £500 -4.58% 20
Hertfordshire -41 15 £400 -3.03% 40
Suffolk +4 9 £230 -67.14% 10
Cambridgeshire -29 9 £525 +23.53% 37
Norfolk -1 4 £525 +50.00% 18
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 16 (20.51%) SharePoint
2 9 (11.54%) IIS
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.56%) Apache
4 2 (2.56%) Confluence
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.28%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.28%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (16.67%) AWS
4 7 (8.97%) GCP
4 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (5.13%) PaaS
7 3 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.85%) GitHub
8 2 (2.56%) Serverless
8 2 (2.56%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.28%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) VPN
2 4 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.13%) Wireshark
3 3 (3.85%) Firewall
3 3 (3.85%) LAN
3 3 (3.85%) WAN
3 3 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.56%) BGP
4 2 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.56%) OSPF
4 2 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.28%) MQTT
5 1 (1.28%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.28%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Power BI
2 3 (3.85%) QlikView
2 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.28%) DTS
4 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (5.13%) Fiddler
3 3 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.56%) Git
4 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.28%) GitLab
5 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (5.13%) Marketing
4 4 (5.13%) Retail
5 3 (3.85%) Finance
6 2 (2.56%) Local Government
6 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 11 (14.10%) Developer
3 8 (10.26%) Analyst
4 7 (8.97%) Applications Support
4 7 (8.97%) Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Administrator
5 5 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Desktop Support
5 5 (6.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Manager
5 5 (6.41%) Web Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Lead
6 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
6 4 (5.13%) Service Delivery Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) .NET
2 7 (8.97%) .NET Framework
3 5 (6.41%) SAML
4 2 (2.56%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.56%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.56%) jQuery
4 2 (2.56%) MFC
4 2 (2.56%) React
4 2 (2.56%) WinForms
4 2 (2.56%) WPF
5 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.28%) Kafka
5 1 (1.28%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.28%) Micronaut
5 1 (1.28%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.28%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.28%) Sensu
5 1 (1.28%) SPFx
5 1 (1.28%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.41%) iPad
2 5 (6.41%) iPhone
3 3 (3.85%) FMCG
3 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.49%) Windows
2 11 (14.10%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.28%) Android
4 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.77%) DevOps
2 14 (17.95%) ITIL
2 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (10.26%) Load Balancing
4 7 (8.97%) Agile
4 7 (8.97%) Migration
4 7 (8.97%) Project Management
5 6 (7.69%) Analytics
5 6 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (6.41%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (6.41%) Customer Service
6 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (6.41%) PRINCE2
6 5 (6.41%) Product Backlog
6 5 (6.41%) Requirements Engineering
6 5 (6.41%) Software Engineering
6 5 (6.41%) Sprint Review
6 5 (6.41%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (5.13%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.54%) C#
2 9 (11.54%) Python
3 4 (5.13%) C++
3 4 (5.13%) Java
4 3 (3.85%) SQL
5 2 (2.56%) C++/CLI
5 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.28%) Bicep
6 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (6.41%) Degree
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (6.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.13%) CCNA
2 4 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (5.13%) MCSA
2 4 (5.13%) MCSE
2 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) COBIT
2 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (10.26%) SCOM
2 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.13%) SCCM
4 4 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.85%) Terraform
6 1 (1.28%) Ansible
6 1 (1.28%) Grafana
6 1 (1.28%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (32.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) F5
3 5 (6.41%) Google
4 4 (5.13%) SAP
5 3 (3.85%) McAfee
6 2 (2.56%) Ariba
6 2 (2.56%) Cisco
6 2 (2.56%) Databricks
6 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.56%) Splunk
6 2 (2.56%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.28%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.28%) Citrix
7 1 (1.28%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.28%) Sparx
7 1 (1.28%) VMware