Azure Storage Contracts

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage 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 492 569 688
Rank change year-on-year +77 +119 -140
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 83 113 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.55% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 69 108
10th Percentile £392 £385 £413
25th Percentile £494 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -1.03% +11.24%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £761
90th Percentile £738 £813 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +0.83% +14.29% +11.86%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Storage 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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the UK 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
England +64 80 £605 -3.20% 38
London +83 48 £581 -13.89% 16
Work from Home +119 42 £605 +0.83% 30
UK excluding London +30 26 £605 +0.83% 22
South East +19 20 £605 -12.00% 6
South West +7 4 £513 -33.87% 6
North of England +13 2 £513 +7.89% 3
North West - 2 £513 -

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (25.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.84%) SharePoint
3 7 (8.43%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (1.20%) Drupal
4 1 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.20%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (51.81%) Entra ID
3 27 (32.53%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (28.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 24 (28.92%) Azure Functions
4 24 (28.92%) Azure Monitor
4 24 (28.92%) Serverless
5 22 (26.51%) Azure Key Vault
6 21 (25.30%) Azure Logic Apps
6 21 (25.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (22.89%) Azure API Management
7 19 (22.89%) PaaS
8 16 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (18.07%) Power Platform
10 11 (13.25%) Power Automate
11 10 (12.05%) AWS
12 9 (10.84%) Azure App Service
13 7 (8.43%) Azure Batch
13 7 (8.43%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (8.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (28.92%) DNS
1 24 (28.92%) Firewall
2 23 (27.71%) DHCP
3 5 (6.02%) VPN
4 4 (4.82%) Intranet
5 1 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (37.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
3 10 (12.05%) Data Lake
4 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.43%) OLTP
6 6 (7.23%) Big Data
7 5 (6.02%) Redis
8 4 (4.82%) Power BI
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.20%) MySQL
9 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Git
2 10 (12.05%) Postman
3 7 (8.43%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (6.02%) GitLab
5 4 (4.82%) Selenium
6 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.20%) Maven
6 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.25%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Banking
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.61%) Retail
5 2 (2.41%) Law
5 2 (2.41%) Legal
6 1 (1.20%) Front Office
6 1 (1.20%) Military
6 1 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Developer
2 20 (24.10%) Active Directory Support
3 18 (21.69%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (16.87%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (16.87%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (16.87%) Support Specialist
5 9 (10.84%) Python Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Senior
6 7 (8.43%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Lead
6 7 (8.43%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Python Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Applications Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (6.02%) Consultant
8 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.73%) ARM Templates
2 16 (19.28%) .NET
2 16 (19.28%) Web Services
3 10 (12.05%) .NET Core
3 10 (12.05%) Swagger
4 7 (8.43%) Blazor
4 7 (8.43%) JSON
5 6 (7.23%) XML
6 4 (4.82%) pytest
6 4 (4.82%) SPFx
6 4 (4.82%) YAML
7 3 (3.61%) PySpark
8 2 (2.41%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.41%) Kafka
8 2 (2.41%) RESTful
9 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.20%) Django
9 1 (1.20%) Flask
9 1 (1.20%) JDBC
9 1 (1.20%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) PKI
1 20 (24.10%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (10.84%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (7.23%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.61%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.20%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 41 (49.40%) Windows
2 27 (32.53%) Linux
3 26 (31.33%) Windows Server
4 21 (25.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (24.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.02%) VMS
7 4 (4.82%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.41%) Unix
9 1 (1.20%) CentOS
9 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (62.65%) Agile
2 49 (59.04%) CI/CD
3 36 (43.37%) DevOps
4 31 (37.35%) Analytics
5 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (25.30%) API Management
6 21 (25.30%) Log Analytics
7 20 (24.10%) Identity Management
7 20 (24.10%) ITIL
7 20 (24.10%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 20 (24.10%) Privileged Identity Management
7 20 (24.10%) RBAC
7 20 (24.10%) Release Management
7 20 (24.10%) Service Management
8 19 (22.89%) Migration
8 19 (22.89%) Software Engineering
8 19 (22.89%) TDD
9 18 (21.69%) Microservices
10 11 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (12.05%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) C#
2 37 (44.58%) SQL
3 30 (36.14%) PowerShell
4 24 (28.92%) Python
5 23 (27.71%) Bicep
6 20 (24.10%) VB
6 20 (24.10%) VBScript
7 12 (14.46%) JavaScript
8 8 (9.64%) PL/SQL
8 8 (9.64%) T-SQL
9 7 (8.43%) C++
9 7 (8.43%) Go
10 6 (7.23%) Java
11 3 (3.61%) Bash
12 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (31.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.12%) Degree
3 24 (28.92%) SC Cleared
4 20 (24.10%) DV Cleared
4 20 (24.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (4.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) SLA
2 2 (2.41%) QA
System Software
1 45 (54.22%) Active Directory
2 29 (34.94%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (25.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (7.23%) Docker
5 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (44.58%) Kubernetes
2 24 (28.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (24.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (24.10%) SCCM
3 20 (24.10%) SCOM
3 20 (24.10%) WSUS
4 14 (16.87%) Terraform
5 4 (4.82%) Grafana
5 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.20%) yum
Vendors
1 56 (67.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.84%) Oracle
3 7 (8.43%) MuleSoft
4 6 (7.23%) Databricks
5 5 (6.02%) VMware
6 3 (3.61%) CA
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) NetApp
7 1 (1.20%) SAP
7 1 (1.20%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.20%) Sybase