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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,125 3,536 4,217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.49% 15.29% 13.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.42% 46.11% 42.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,594 2,671 3,229
10th Percentile £311 £350 £319
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 £685
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 59 37
10th Percentile £17.80 £17.72 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.55 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.09 £60.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +34.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £59.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -44.44% +18.87% +6.00%

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 5,257 7,669 9,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.94% 33.15% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,728 5,665 7,339
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
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 261 219 286
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%
75th Percentile £27.50 £63.75 £30.60
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -4 586 £550 -2.22% 746
North of England -5 504 £500 -4.76% 743
South West -3 358 £500 -9.09% 354
Midlands -8 291 £525 +9.38% 519
North West -8 278 £500 - 394
Scotland +1 244 £460 -8.00% 164
West Midlands -7 214 £550 +4.76% 323
Yorkshire 0 200 £500 -9.09% 262
East of England -30 80 £500 +9.59% 193
East Midlands -5 78 £445 -1.11% 195
Wales +4 63 £475 -9.52% 103
North East 0 32 £533 -11.25% 89
Northern Ireland +7 28 £600 +37.14% 66
Isle of Man 0 5 £388 +96.20% 3
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
1 159 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 123 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (4.28%) Confluence
4 36 (1.69%) SharePoint Server
5 35 (1.65%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.94%) Apache
7 15 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.61%) CMS
8 13 (0.61%) IIS
9 8 (0.38%) SAS
10 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) WordPress
14 2 (0.094%) JBoss
14 2 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.47%) Sketch
5 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.38%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.094%) Maximo
9 2 (0.094%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.094%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 2 (0.094%) SAP IS-U
9 2 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.094%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.047%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 511 (24.05%) AWS
2 412 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
3 310 (14.59%) Microsoft 365
4 277 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 232 (10.92%) Entra ID
6 166 (7.81%) GCP
7 151 (7.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 99 (4.66%) Serverless
9 98 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
10 82 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
11 80 (3.76%) GitHub
12 78 (3.67%) SaaS
13 74 (3.48%) PaaS
14 70 (3.29%) Azure Functions
15 63 (2.96%) IaaS
16 59 (2.78%) Power Automate
17 58 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 58 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
18 56 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 52 (2.45%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 196 (9.22%) Firewall
2 117 (5.51%) DNS
3 79 (3.72%) VPN
4 58 (2.73%) SSL
5 53 (2.49%) DHCP
5 53 (2.49%) SAN
6 52 (2.45%) WAN
7 48 (2.26%) LAN
8 47 (2.21%) BGP
9 45 (2.12%) Network Security
10 40 (1.88%) TCP/IP
11 18 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (0.80%) OSPF
13 16 (0.75%) HTTP
13 16 (0.75%) VLAN
13 16 (0.75%) Wireless
14 14 (0.66%) Wireshark
15 11 (0.52%) Intranet
16 10 (0.47%) NetScaler
17 9 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (9.13%) Power BI
2 154 (7.25%) SQL Server
3 87 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 63 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 57 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 55 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 49 (2.31%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.26%) MySQL
10 38 (1.79%) MongoDB
11 36 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
12 33 (1.55%) Big Data
13 31 (1.46%) Tableau
14 28 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 20 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 18 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 16 (0.75%) Hadoop
19 15 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
19 15 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 169 (7.95%) JIRA
2 134 (6.31%) Git
3 75 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.82%) Selenium
5 59 (2.78%) GitLab
6 40 (1.88%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 19 (0.89%) Postman
11 15 (0.71%) Maven
12 14 (0.66%) Artifactory
13 13 (0.61%) NUnit
14 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.56%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.52%) Subversion
15 11 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.42%) JMeter
16 9 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 550 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 230 (10.82%) Finance
3 195 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 65 (3.06%) Banking
6 43 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 41 (1.93%) Retail
8 36 (1.69%) Legal
9 34 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.32%) Marketing
13 27 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.18%) Law
14 25 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (0.66%) Electronics
17 10 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.47%) Police
18 9 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 346 (16.28%) Architect
2 335 (15.76%) Developer
3 182 (8.56%) Analyst
4 169 (7.95%) Senior
5 140 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
6 125 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 114 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 110 (5.18%) Lead
9 101 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
10 97 (4.56%) Data Engineer
11 73 (3.44%) Consultant
12 69 (3.25%) Project Manager
13 67 (3.15%) Support Engineer
14 63 (2.96%) .NET Developer
15 57 (2.68%) Azure Developer
16 56 (2.64%) Azure Architect
17 54 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
18 51 (2.40%) Administrator
19 48 (2.26%) Technical Architect
20 47 (2.21%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (9.93%) .NET
2 98 (4.61%) React
3 79 (3.72%) Web Services
4 72 (3.39%) REST
5 58 (2.73%) AngularJS
6 51 (2.40%) CSS
7 50 (2.35%) Kafka
8 49 (2.31%) ARM Templates
8 49 (2.31%) RESTful
9 48 (2.26%) HTML
10 43 (2.02%) .NET Framework
11 42 (1.98%) .NET Core
11 42 (1.98%) XML
12 38 (1.79%) JSON
13 37 (1.74%) Spring
14 35 (1.65%) Spring Boot
15 33 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (1.41%) YAML
17 29 (1.36%) SOAP
18 27 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.14%) PKI
2 82 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 81 (3.81%) Public Cloud
4 63 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.49%) Private Cloud
6 40 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 36 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 36 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 32 (1.51%) NHS
10 26 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.22%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.18%) Client/Server
11 25 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 23 (1.08%) Replication
14 20 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
15 18 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 414 (19.48%) Windows
2 221 (10.40%) Linux
3 178 (8.38%) Windows Server
4 108 (5.08%) Windows 10
5 65 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 63 (2.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 44 (2.07%) Unix
8 40 (1.88%) Apple iOS
9 36 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 32 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 30 (1.41%) Android
12 28 (1.32%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.85%) VMS
14 16 (0.75%) Windows XP
15 7 (0.33%) Solaris
16 6 (0.28%) AIX
16 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
16 6 (0.28%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (33.88%) DevOps
2 497 (23.39%) Agile
3 294 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (12.56%) CI/CD
5 227 (10.68%) Migration
6 211 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
7 175 (8.24%) Analytics
8 169 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 163 (7.67%) ITIL
10 158 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 135 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 129 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
12 129 (6.07%) Scrum
13 128 (6.02%) Project Management
14 124 (5.84%) Test Automation
15 120 (5.65%) Data Modelling
16 119 (5.60%) ETL
16 119 (5.60%) Microservices
17 111 (5.22%) Containerisation
18 104 (4.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 339 (15.95%) SQL
2 296 (13.93%) Python
3 249 (11.72%) PowerShell
4 218 (10.26%) C#
5 146 (6.87%) Java
6 107 (5.04%) JavaScript
7 64 (3.01%) Bash
8 45 (2.12%) TypeScript
9 43 (2.02%) C
10 42 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.88%) Bicep
12 34 (1.60%) VBScript
13 30 (1.41%) Scala
14 25 (1.18%) VB
15 23 (1.08%) PHP
16 20 (0.94%) C++
17 16 (0.75%) Go
18 14 (0.66%) Perl
18 14 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 453 (21.32%) Security Cleared
2 290 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 230 (10.82%) Degree
4 222 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 72 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 50 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.65%) CCNA
10 29 (1.36%) CCNP
11 24 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.08%) CISSP
13 20 (0.94%) MCSE
14 18 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.66%) CISM
17 11 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.84%) QA
2 39 (1.84%) Government Security Classifications
3 34 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.04%) GDPR
5 22 (1.04%) SLA
6 21 (0.99%) NIST
7 16 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.75%) NCSC
8 14 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 13 (0.61%) PMO
10 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.19%) COBIT
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) GRC
14 3 (0.14%) GxP
15 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 407 (19.15%) Active Directory
2 167 (7.86%) Docker
3 115 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 76 (3.58%) Hyper-V
5 49 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 47 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (1.08%) vSphere
9 12 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 8 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.38%) XenApp
10 8 (0.38%) XenDesktop
11 7 (0.33%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.24%) NFS
13 4 (0.19%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.19%) GPFS
14 3 (0.14%) HDFS
14 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 210 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 193 (9.08%) Terraform
3 142 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 109 (5.13%) Ansible
5 89 (4.19%) SCCM
6 68 (3.20%) SCOM
7 58 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (2.16%) Grafana
9 42 (1.98%) Prometheus
10 38 (1.79%) WSUS
11 30 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 30 (1.41%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.13%) Puppet
13 22 (1.04%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
15 15 (0.71%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
17 12 (0.56%) Istio
17 12 (0.56%) Kibana
17 12 (0.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 691 (32.52%) Microsoft
2 186 (8.75%) VMware
3 117 (5.51%) Oracle
4 97 (4.56%) Databricks
5 64 (3.01%) Cisco
5 64 (3.01%) Google
6 53 (2.49%) Atlassian
7 48 (2.26%) Citrix
8 41 (1.93%) Splunk
9 40 (1.88%) SAP
10 37 (1.74%) Veeam
11 34 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.46%) F5
13 29 (1.36%) ServiceNow
14 27 (1.27%) CyberArk
15 25 (1.18%) Dell
16 23 (1.08%) Red Hat
17 21 (0.99%) HP
18 20 (0.94%) EMC
19 19 (0.89%) Salesforce