Azure Storage Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage 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 296 421 566
Rank change year-on-year +125 +145 -144
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 45 36 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.38% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 52
10th Percentile £400 £402 £401
25th Percentile £519 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +9.09% +6.02%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £650
90th Percentile - £800 £754
UK median daily rate £605 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +10.09%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Storage falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure Storage
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Storage trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Storage.

Azure Storage daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Azure Storage daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.44%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Drupal
3 1 (2.22%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (57.78%) Entra ID
3 24 (53.33%) Azure Monitor
4 23 (51.11%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (17.78%) Azure Functions
5 8 (17.78%) Serverless
6 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (15.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
8 5 (11.11%) Azure App Service
8 5 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (11.11%) PaaS
9 4 (8.89%) Azure API Management
9 4 (8.89%) Azure Batch
9 4 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (8.89%) IaaS
9 4 (8.89%) Power Automate
9 4 (8.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (51.11%) Firewall
2 22 (48.89%) DNS
3 21 (46.67%) DHCP
4 3 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.89%) OLTP
5 3 (6.67%) Big Data
6 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.44%) Power BI
6 2 (4.44%) Redis
7 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (4.44%) GitLab
3 2 (4.44%) Selenium
General
1 24 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Banking
3 2 (4.44%) Law
3 2 (4.44%) Legal
3 2 (4.44%) Retail
4 1 (2.22%) Front Office
4 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (31.11%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (31.11%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (31.11%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (31.11%) Support Specialist
3 8 (17.78%) Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Support Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Active Directory Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (55.56%) ARM Templates
2 7 (15.56%) .NET
3 3 (6.67%) JSON
3 3 (6.67%) Web Services
3 3 (6.67%) XML
4 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.44%) Kafka
4 2 (4.44%) PySpark
4 2 (4.44%) pytest
4 2 (4.44%) YAML
5 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.22%) Blazor
5 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.22%) RESTful
5 1 (2.22%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (46.67%) PKI
1 21 (46.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 30 (66.67%) Windows
2 25 (55.56%) Linux
2 25 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 22 (48.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (6.67%) VMS
6 2 (4.44%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Agile
2 28 (62.22%) DevOps
3 26 (57.78%) CI/CD
4 25 (55.56%) Analytics
5 24 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (48.89%) Log Analytics
7 21 (46.67%) Identity Management
7 21 (46.67%) ITIL
7 21 (46.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 21 (46.67%) Privileged Identity Management
7 21 (46.67%) RBAC
7 21 (46.67%) Release Management
7 21 (46.67%) Service Management
8 10 (22.22%) Migration
9 7 (15.56%) Microservices
10 5 (11.11%) Scrum
10 5 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 4 (8.89%) BDD
11 4 (8.89%) Continuous Delivery
11 4 (8.89%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) C#
2 27 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 22 (48.89%) Bicep
4 21 (46.67%) VB
4 21 (46.67%) VBScript
5 14 (31.11%) SQL
6 6 (13.33%) Python
7 3 (6.67%) Java
8 2 (4.44%) Bash
8 2 (4.44%) C++
8 2 (4.44%) Go
8 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.44%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (48.89%) Degree
2 22 (48.89%) SC Cleared
3 21 (46.67%) DV Cleared
3 21 (46.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 26 (57.78%) Active Directory
2 25 (55.56%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (48.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (62.22%) Kubernetes
2 23 (51.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (46.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (46.67%) SCCM
3 21 (46.67%) SCOM
3 21 (46.67%) WSUS
4 7 (15.56%) Terraform
5 2 (4.44%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) CA
4 1 (2.22%) NetApp
4 1 (2.22%) Sitecore