Azure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,164 3,385 4,194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.39% 14.86% 13.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.34% 45.42% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,628 2,542 3,228
10th Percentile £313 £350 £320
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 61 37
10th Percentile £17.80 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.79 £24.62 £25.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £60.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.36% +36.07% -16.43%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £59.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -44.44% +17.21% +5.39%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,364 7,452 9,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.72% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,791 5,492 7,388
10th Percentile £215 £243 £208
25th Percentile £375 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 220 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.79 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £32.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.53 £63.40
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK excluding London 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
South East -3 594 £550 -3.93% 452
North of England -5 519 £500 -4.76% 647
South West -2 363 £500 -9.50% 292
Midlands -7 294 £525 +9.38% 391
North West -9 286 £500 - 372
Scotland +2 251 £450 -10.00% 157
West Midlands -7 210 £550 +6.28% 243
Yorkshire +1 204 £500 -9.09% 208
East Midlands -5 85 £455 +2.25% 148
East of England -33 78 £451 +0.28% 137
Wales +3 64 £488 -7.14% 58
North East -2 35 £533 -11.25% 69
Northern Ireland +7 29 £588 +38.24% 38
Isle of Man 0 5 £388 +96.20% 2
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 169 (7.81%) SharePoint
2 130 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (3.65%) Confluence
4 38 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 30 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
6 20 (0.92%) Apache
7 15 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.65%) CMS
9 12 (0.55%) IIS
10 9 (0.42%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.28%) SAS
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.14%) Drupal
14 3 (0.14%) Kentico
14 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.14%) WordPress
15 2 (0.092%) OpenStack
Applications
1 49 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.46%) Sketch
5 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.37%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.32%) Maximo
6 7 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.32%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
10 2 (0.092%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.092%) SAP IS-U
10 2 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.046%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.046%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 1 (0.046%) Relativity
11 1 (0.046%) Shopify
11 1 (0.046%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 528 (24.40%) AWS
2 401 (18.53%) Azure DevOps
3 329 (15.20%) Microsoft 365
4 286 (13.22%) Power Platform
5 249 (11.51%) Entra ID
6 169 (7.81%) GCP
7 138 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 102 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
8 102 (4.71%) Serverless
9 90 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
10 86 (3.97%) GitHub
11 82 (3.79%) PaaS
12 74 (3.42%) SaaS
13 71 (3.28%) Azure Functions
14 64 (2.96%) IaaS
14 64 (2.96%) Power Automate
15 59 (2.73%) PowerApps
16 58 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
17 54 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
18 52 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 196 (9.06%) Firewall
2 119 (5.50%) DNS
3 82 (3.79%) VPN
4 57 (2.63%) WAN
5 56 (2.59%) SSL
6 53 (2.45%) DHCP
6 53 (2.45%) SAN
7 49 (2.26%) LAN
8 47 (2.17%) Network Security
9 43 (1.99%) BGP
10 41 (1.89%) TCP/IP
11 21 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (0.88%) OSPF
12 19 (0.88%) Wireless
13 18 (0.83%) VLAN
14 15 (0.69%) HTTP
15 14 (0.65%) Wireshark
16 11 (0.51%) MPLS
17 10 (0.46%) Intranet
17 10 (0.46%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (9.20%) Power BI
2 159 (7.35%) SQL Server
3 88 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.47%) Data Lake
5 64 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 56 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (2.31%) MySQL
7 50 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (2.22%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.80%) MongoDB
10 36 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.66%) Tableau
11 32 (1.48%) Big Data
12 28 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 21 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 18 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (0.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 17 (0.79%) Hadoop
17 15 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 159 (7.35%) JIRA
2 138 (6.38%) Git
3 76 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 70 (3.23%) Selenium
5 61 (2.82%) GitLab
6 38 (1.76%) Visual Studio
7 28 (1.29%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.29%) SonarQube
8 24 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.97%) Maven
10 19 (0.88%) Postman
11 14 (0.65%) Artifactory
12 13 (0.60%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.55%) JMeter
13 12 (0.55%) NUnit
13 12 (0.55%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.46%) Subversion
16 9 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 554 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 241 (11.14%) Finance
3 202 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 64 (2.96%) Banking
6 42 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 40 (1.85%) Retail
8 36 (1.66%) Legal
9 34 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (1.29%) Law
13 25 (1.16%) Marketing
13 25 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (0.65%) Electronics
17 10 (0.46%) Local Government
17 10 (0.46%) Police
18 9 (0.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 352 (16.27%) Architect
2 347 (16.04%) Developer
3 185 (8.55%) Analyst
4 170 (7.86%) Senior
5 143 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
6 120 (5.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 110 (5.08%) Lead
8 106 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
9 98 (4.53%) Data Engineer
9 98 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (3.79%) Consultant
11 74 (3.42%) Support Engineer
12 72 (3.33%) Project Manager
13 63 (2.91%) .NET Developer
14 59 (2.73%) Azure Architect
15 58 (2.68%) Azure Developer
16 54 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
17 51 (2.36%) Administrator
17 51 (2.36%) Full Stack Developer
18 48 (2.22%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (9.80%) .NET
2 103 (4.76%) React
3 82 (3.79%) Web Services
4 77 (3.56%) REST
5 59 (2.73%) AngularJS
6 57 (2.63%) CSS
7 56 (2.59%) RESTful
8 52 (2.40%) ARM Templates
8 52 (2.40%) HTML
8 52 (2.40%) Kafka
9 49 (2.26%) .NET Framework
10 43 (1.99%) .NET Core
11 41 (1.89%) XML
12 40 (1.85%) Spring
13 38 (1.76%) Spring Boot
14 37 (1.71%) JSON
15 34 (1.57%) YAML
16 33 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (1.34%) SOAP
18 28 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.25%) PKI
2 82 (3.79%) Product Ownership
2 82 (3.79%) Public Cloud
3 65 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 45 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 45 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 34 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 34 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 32 (1.48%) NHS
8 29 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.16%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.11%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.06%) Client/Server
12 23 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.06%) Replication
13 21 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
14 20 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 412 (19.04%) Windows
2 224 (10.35%) Linux
3 178 (8.23%) Windows Server
4 106 (4.90%) Windows 10
5 71 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 68 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 43 (1.99%) Unix
8 40 (1.85%) Apple iOS
9 38 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 31 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 29 (1.34%) Android
12 28 (1.29%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.83%) VMS
14 16 (0.74%) Windows XP
15 7 (0.32%) Solaris
16 6 (0.28%) AIX
16 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (33.23%) DevOps
2 512 (23.66%) Agile
3 309 (14.28%) Problem-Solving
4 268 (12.38%) CI/CD
5 235 (10.86%) Migration
6 211 (9.75%) Business Intelligence
7 174 (8.04%) Analytics
8 166 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 166 (7.67%) ITIL
9 162 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 139 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 136 (6.28%) Scrum
12 134 (6.19%) Project Management
13 133 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
14 127 (5.87%) Test Automation
15 126 (5.82%) Data Modelling
16 122 (5.64%) Microservices
17 119 (5.50%) Containerisation
18 115 (5.31%) ETL
19 103 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 330 (15.25%) SQL
2 294 (13.59%) Python
3 268 (12.38%) PowerShell
4 221 (10.21%) C#
5 156 (7.21%) Java
6 118 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 65 (3.00%) Bash
8 49 (2.26%) TypeScript
9 44 (2.03%) Bicep
9 44 (2.03%) C
10 42 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.76%) VBScript
12 30 (1.39%) VB
13 24 (1.11%) Scala
14 23 (1.06%) PHP
15 20 (0.92%) C++
16 15 (0.69%) Go
16 15 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 461 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 301 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 232 (10.72%) Degree
4 223 (10.30%) DV Cleared
5 73 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (1.71%) CCNA
9 30 (1.39%) CCNP
10 27 (1.25%) CISSP
11 25 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 18 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.83%) MCSE
14 17 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.65%) CISM
16 11 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.87%) QA
2 33 (1.52%) Data Quality
2 33 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
3 31 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.11%) GDPR
5 23 (1.06%) NIST
6 20 (0.92%) SLA
7 16 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 15 (0.69%) NCSC
9 12 (0.55%) PMO
10 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.23%) COBIT
14 4 (0.18%) GRC
15 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.092%) GxP
16 2 (0.092%) WCAG
System Software
1 424 (19.59%) Active Directory
2 166 (7.67%) Docker
3 119 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 79 (3.65%) Hyper-V
5 58 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 54 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (1.20%) vSphere
9 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.37%) XenApp
10 8 (0.37%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.28%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.14%) HDFS
12 3 (0.14%) NFS
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.092%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 215 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 199 (9.20%) Terraform
3 151 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 107 (4.94%) Ansible
5 96 (4.44%) SCCM
6 65 (3.00%) SCOM
7 59 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (2.17%) Grafana
9 43 (1.99%) WSUS
10 42 (1.94%) Prometheus
11 34 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 28 (1.29%) vCenter Server
13 22 (1.02%) Puppet
14 21 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
15 20 (0.92%) Progress Chef
16 15 (0.69%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
18 12 (0.55%) Istio
18 12 (0.55%) Kibana
18 12 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 700 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 191 (8.83%) VMware
3 117 (5.41%) Oracle
4 93 (4.30%) Databricks
5 69 (3.19%) Google
6 68 (3.14%) Cisco
7 50 (2.31%) Citrix
8 48 (2.22%) Atlassian
9 43 (1.99%) Splunk
10 38 (1.76%) Veeam
11 37 (1.71%) SAP
12 36 (1.66%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.52%) F5
14 28 (1.29%) ServiceNow
15 27 (1.25%) CyberArk
16 25 (1.16%) Dell
17 24 (1.11%) HP
18 22 (1.02%) Red Hat
18 22 (1.02%) Salesforce
19 19 (0.88%) Juniper