Microsoft Azure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 5,813 9,632 14,782
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 16.61% 16.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.75% 45.07% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,186 6,992 10,756
10th Percentile £350 £395 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 100 85
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.91 £19.87
25th Percentile £22.35 £26.48 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £59.90 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.57% +10.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £72.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.09 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -19.85% +26.32% +5.56%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,922 21,371 33,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 36.84% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,900 15,444 24,526
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 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 346 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.54
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.83
90th Percentile £62.45 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England 0 4,933 £545 -2.68% 3,458
London 0 2,918 £550 -8.33% 1,276
Work from Home 0 2,317 £538 -2.27% 2,045
UK excluding London -6 2,117 £500 -4.76% 2,366
South East -4 579 £550 -1.74% 484
North of England -6 496 £500 -4.76% 635
South West -3 351 £500 -9.09% 323
Midlands -7 298 £538 +11.98% 478
North West -8 281 £492 -1.55% 349
Scotland +2 247 £460 -8.00% 156
West Midlands -6 219 £550 +4.76% 280
Yorkshire 0 189 £500 -9.09% 221
East of England -33 81 £500 +6.67% 186
East Midlands -5 77 £463 +2.78% 197
Wales +5 71 £500 -2.44% 91
North East -2 32 £533 -11.25% 68
Northern Ireland +6 21 £563 +32.35% 58
Isle of Man 0 5 £388 +96.20% 3

Azure
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
1 365 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 255 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 166 (2.86%) Confluence
4 127 (2.18%) Apache
5 104 (1.79%) Apache Spark
6 100 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
7 49 (0.84%) CMS
8 46 (0.79%) IIS
9 37 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 16 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
12 15 (0.26%) Tomcat
13 14 (0.24%) SAS
14 13 (0.22%) JBoss
15 11 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
15 11 (0.19%) Umbraco
16 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 9 (0.15%) Site Server
16 9 (0.15%) Skype for Business
17 8 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 123 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.22%) Sketch
7 11 (0.19%) Trello
8 10 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.052%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.034%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.034%) InVision
12 1 (0.017%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.017%) InDesign
12 1 (0.017%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.017%) Marvel
12 1 (0.017%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.017%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 127 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 20 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.29%) Endur
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 13 (0.22%) Temenos T24
8 12 (0.21%) Elite 3E
9 11 (0.19%) Shopify
10 9 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
11 8 (0.14%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.12%) Aladdin
13 6 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
13 6 (0.10%) SAP GRC
13 6 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
14 5 (0.086%) Maximo
14 5 (0.086%) OpenLink RightAngle
15 4 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
15 4 (0.069%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,507 (25.92%) AWS
2 1,210 (20.82%) Azure DevOps
3 724 (12.45%) Microsoft 365
4 667 (11.47%) GCP
4 667 (11.47%) Power Platform
5 594 (10.22%) Entra ID
6 341 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 292 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
8 289 (4.97%) Serverless
9 246 (4.23%) GitHub
10 236 (4.06%) PaaS
11 208 (3.58%) SaaS
12 206 (3.54%) IaaS
13 203 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
14 197 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 192 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
16 189 (3.25%) Azure Functions
17 179 (3.08%) PowerApps
18 176 (3.03%) Power Automate
19 167 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 419 (7.21%) Firewall
2 244 (4.20%) DNS
3 157 (2.70%) VPN
4 122 (2.10%) Network Security
5 115 (1.98%) WAN
6 110 (1.89%) DHCP
7 104 (1.79%) LAN
8 84 (1.45%) SAN
9 74 (1.27%) SSL
10 73 (1.26%) BGP
11 71 (1.22%) TCP/IP
12 49 (0.84%) MPLS
12 49 (0.84%) Wireless
13 45 (0.77%) OSPF
14 42 (0.72%) VLAN
15 40 (0.69%) SD-WAN
16 39 (0.67%) HTTP
17 33 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
18 29 (0.50%) Internet
18 29 (0.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 642 (11.04%) SQL Server
2 487 (8.38%) Power BI
3 282 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
4 279 (4.80%) Data Lake
5 224 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 208 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 198 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 146 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.46%) Big Data
10 119 (2.05%) MySQL
11 110 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 95 (1.63%) MongoDB
13 72 (1.24%) Tableau
14 60 (1.03%) Apache Ignite
15 46 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 45 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
16 45 (0.77%) RDBMS
16 45 (0.77%) Redis
17 41 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 37 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 395 (6.80%) Git
2 317 (5.45%) JIRA
3 180 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 141 (2.43%) GitLab
5 115 (1.98%) Selenium
6 91 (1.57%) Visual Studio
7 77 (1.32%) Cypress.io
8 65 (1.12%) SpecFlow
9 60 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 46 (0.79%) Postman
11 43 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 41 (0.71%) Maven
13 34 (0.58%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.58%) Cucumber
14 28 (0.48%) JMeter
15 26 (0.45%) WebDriver
16 23 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
17 21 (0.36%) NUnit
17 21 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
18 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
General
1 1,340 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 1,114 (19.16%) Finance
3 585 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 503 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 356 (6.12%) Banking
6 190 (3.27%) Front Office
7 141 (2.43%) Marketing
8 134 (2.31%) Retail
9 104 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 98 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 94 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 78 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 78 (1.34%) Legal
13 67 (1.15%) Back Office
14 64 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 61 (1.05%) Law
16 51 (0.88%) Electronics
16 51 (0.88%) Investment Banking
17 50 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
18 45 (0.77%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,125 (19.35%) Developer
2 981 (16.88%) Architect
3 619 (10.65%) Senior
4 497 (8.55%) Azure Engineer
5 401 (6.90%) Analyst
6 360 (6.19%) Data Engineer
7 350 (6.02%) Lead
8 311 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
9 268 (4.61%) Consultant
10 259 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 225 (3.87%) Software Engineer
12 220 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 214 (3.68%) .NET Developer
14 197 (3.39%) Senior Developer
15 179 (3.08%) Azure Developer
16 175 (3.01%) Azure Architect
17 174 (2.99%) Full Stack Developer
18 156 (2.68%) Data Architect
19 154 (2.65%) C# Developer
20 149 (2.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 787 (13.54%) .NET
2 358 (6.16%) React
3 223 (3.84%) .NET Core
3 223 (3.84%) XML
4 217 (3.73%) REST
5 203 (3.49%) HTML
6 185 (3.18%) .NET Framework
7 183 (3.15%) AngularJS
8 174 (2.99%) Web Services
9 172 (2.96%) CSS
10 152 (2.61%) Kafka
11 133 (2.29%) Node.js
12 132 (2.27%) JSON
13 129 (2.22%) PySpark
14 128 (2.20%) ASP.NET
15 125 (2.15%) ARM Templates
16 119 (2.05%) RESTful
17 96 (1.65%) Redux
18 92 (1.58%) YAML
19 83 (1.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 256 (4.40%) Product Ownership
2 167 (2.87%) Data Centre
3 160 (2.75%) Public Cloud
4 137 (2.36%) Cloud Native
5 133 (2.29%) PKI
6 117 (2.01%) Fixed Income
7 116 (2.00%) Hedge funds
8 112 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 111 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 107 (1.84%) Management Information System
11 86 (1.48%) Derivative
12 85 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 80 (1.38%) Equities
14 75 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 65 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
16 64 (1.10%) Replication
17 63 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
18 61 (1.05%) Private Cloud
19 55 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 54 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 848 (14.59%) Windows
2 451 (7.76%) Linux
3 325 (5.59%) Windows Server
4 177 (3.04%) Windows 10
5 107 (1.84%) Unix
6 82 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 79 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 78 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 66 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 63 (1.08%) Android
11 61 (1.05%) Apple iOS
12 52 (0.89%) Mac OS
13 37 (0.64%) VMS
14 21 (0.36%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.31%) Solaris
15 18 (0.31%) Windows 7
16 17 (0.29%) Windows XP
17 12 (0.21%) Mac OS X
18 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,030 (34.92%) DevOps
2 1,584 (27.25%) Agile
3 837 (14.40%) CI/CD
4 763 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
5 700 (12.04%) Migration
6 555 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
7 519 (8.93%) Analytics
8 518 (8.91%) Software Engineering
9 459 (7.90%) Scrum
10 391 (6.73%) Data Modelling
11 370 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 361 (6.21%) ETL
13 345 (5.93%) Test Automation
14 333 (5.73%) Microservices
15 321 (5.52%) Full Stack Development
16 317 (5.45%) Computer Science
17 314 (5.40%) Cybersecurity
18 310 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
19 309 (5.32%) ITIL
20 299 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (19.92%) SQL
2 1,033 (17.77%) Python
3 840 (14.45%) C#
4 738 (12.70%) PowerShell
5 412 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 349 (6.00%) Java
7 280 (4.82%) TypeScript
8 172 (2.96%) Bicep
9 155 (2.67%) Bash
10 101 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 82 (1.41%) Scala
12 63 (1.08%) Go
13 61 (1.05%) C++
14 56 (0.96%) C
15 47 (0.81%) R
16 44 (0.76%) PHP
17 41 (0.71%) Shell Script
18 40 (0.69%) PL/SQL
19 38 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 38 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 862 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 654 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 583 (10.03%) Degree
4 263 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 223 (3.84%) Azure Certification
6 201 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 127 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 94 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 92 (1.58%) CISSP
10 74 (1.27%) AWS Certification
11 68 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 64 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 52 (0.89%) CCNP
14 51 (0.88%) CCNA
15 42 (0.72%) CISM
16 28 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 20 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
18 20 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 20 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (4.61%) QA
2 144 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 90 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (1.41%) GDPR
5 80 (1.38%) NIST
6 68 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 59 (1.01%) SLA
8 57 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 45 (0.77%) NCSC
10 39 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
11 27 (0.46%) PMO
12 25 (0.43%) WCAG
13 20 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
16 13 (0.22%) GRC
17 11 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 10 (0.17%) ISO 20022
19 9 (0.15%) SOC 2
20 8 (0.14%) COBIT
System Software
1 913 (15.71%) Active Directory
2 411 (7.07%) Docker
3 201 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 129 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 121 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 76 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (0.67%) vSphere
9 19 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.24%) XenApp
11 13 (0.22%) ACF2
11 13 (0.22%) Firmware
11 13 (0.22%) IAG
11 13 (0.22%) RACF
12 11 (0.19%) NFS
12 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 9 (0.15%) Terminal Services
15 8 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 562 (9.67%) Terraform
2 543 (9.34%) Kubernetes
3 293 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 248 (4.27%) Ansible
5 168 (2.89%) SCCM
6 104 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 82 (1.41%) SCOM
8 77 (1.32%) Grafana
9 69 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 69 (1.19%) Puppet
10 57 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 43 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 43 (0.74%) WSUS
12 34 (0.58%) vCenter Server
13 28 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
14 26 (0.45%) Kibana
15 25 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
16 24 (0.41%) Argo
17 22 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
18 21 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,881 (32.36%) Microsoft
2 374 (6.43%) Databricks
3 353 (6.07%) Oracle
4 323 (5.56%) VMware
5 237 (4.08%) Google
6 178 (3.06%) SAP
7 162 (2.79%) Cisco
8 131 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 116 (2.00%) Splunk
10 102 (1.75%) Citrix
11 99 (1.70%) CyberArk
12 82 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 70 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 65 (1.12%) F5
15 62 (1.07%) Salesforce
16 58 (1.00%) Red Hat
17 54 (0.93%) Informatica
18 52 (0.89%) HP
19 51 (0.88%) Okta
20 50 (0.86%) Dell