Azure Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 60 58 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.37% 11.65% 12.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.54% 38.93% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 62
10th Percentile £196 £466 £364
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +36.42%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £669
90th Percentile £633 - £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.18%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 148 149 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.52% 29.92% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 114 140
10th Percentile £210 £413 £300
25th Percentile £411 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +4.89% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £672 £615
90th Percentile £628 £700 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £15.60 - £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.50 £16.28
Median hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +17.27% -11.40%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.50 £19.58
90th Percentile - - £21.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £32.50 £18.88
% change year-on-year -53.85% +72.19% -3.21%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Sheffield -3 53 £506 -13.87% 43
Doncaster -2 6 £500 - 3
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 10 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (15.00%) Confluence
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (73.33%) AWS
1 44 (73.33%) GCP
2 14 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (15.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (15.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
3 9 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (15.00%) GitHub
3 9 (15.00%) Kong
3 9 (15.00%) Serverless
4 6 (10.00%) Apigee
4 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) DNS
1 9 (15.00%) Firewall
1 9 (15.00%) HTTP
1 9 (15.00%) TCP/IP
1 9 (15.00%) VPN
2 5 (8.33%) HTTPS
3 3 (5.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (5.00%) SSL
4 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Big Data
1 10 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 9 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 9 (15.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (45.00%) Git
2 19 (31.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.67%) JIRA
4 9 (15.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (15.00%) CircleCI
4 9 (15.00%) GitLab
4 9 (15.00%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Law
4 3 (5.00%) Banking
4 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Architect
2 12 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Database Specialist
5 4 (6.67%) DBA
5 4 (6.67%) IT Support
5 4 (6.67%) MongoDB DBA
6 3 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Exchange Architect
6 3 (5.00%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Kafka
1 10 (16.67%) XML
2 9 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (15.00%) JSON
2 9 (15.00%) YAML
3 6 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 6 (10.00%) gRPC
3 6 (10.00%) JWT
3 6 (10.00%) OAuth
3 6 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 6 (10.00%) RESTful
3 6 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.67%) HTML
4 1 (1.67%) LDAP
4 1 (1.67%) OLE
4 1 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (1.67%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.67%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
1 11 (18.33%) Windows 10
2 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) DevOps
2 25 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 18 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (26.67%) Data Integration
5 16 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 16 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (25.00%) Task Automation
7 14 (23.33%) Agile
7 14 (23.33%) DevSecOps
7 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (20.00%) API Development
9 10 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 10 (16.67%) ETL
10 9 (15.00%) Project Management
10 9 (15.00%) Scrum
10 9 (15.00%) Use Case
10 9 (15.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (60.00%) Python
2 20 (33.33%) Bash
3 18 (30.00%) Java
4 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
5 10 (16.67%) SQL
6 3 (5.00%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.33%) C#
7 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.67%) Go
8 1 (1.67%) Perl
8 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.67%) CEH
3 1 (1.67%) CISSP
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) GDPR
2 6 (10.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
2 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) ACF2
3 1 (1.67%) IAG
3 1 (1.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 20 (33.33%) Terraform
2 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (15.00%) Ansible
4 9 (15.00%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (15.00%) Grafana
4 9 (15.00%) Kibana
4 9 (15.00%) logstash
4 9 (15.00%) Progress Chef
4 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 9 (15.00%) Puppet
5 1 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (28.33%) Google
3 11 (18.33%) Splunk
4 3 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (1.67%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow