Azure Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 200 291 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.55% 13.57% 13.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.76% 41.22% 39.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 228 275
10th Percentile £364 £331 £328
25th Percentile £425 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.18%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £700 £700
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £37.75 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +114.00% -55.90%
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -12.04%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 503 706 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.04% 32.91% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 518 693
10th Percentile £251 £247 £182
25th Percentile £400 £421 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +5.83%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £575
90th Percentile £642 £700 £685
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 18
10th Percentile £13.45 £19.50 £16.18
25th Percentile - £22.51 £16.62
Median hourly rate £15.00 £32.50 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +72.19% -3.21%
75th Percentile £21.50 £44.50 £22.05
90th Percentile £22.00 £51.40 £22.58
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +1 125 £500 -9.09% 135
South Yorkshire -3 60 £500 -9.09% 50
North Yorkshire -13 7 £575 +61.97% 36
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.00%) Confluence
3 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.50%) Apache
6 3 (1.50%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Kentico
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 70 (35.00%) AWS
2 56 (28.00%) GCP
3 34 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (11.00%) GitHub
6 20 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 16 (8.00%) Akamai
7 16 (8.00%) Cloudflare
8 15 (7.50%) Serverless
9 12 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (5.50%) Power Platform
11 9 (4.50%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.50%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 9 (4.50%) IaaS
11 9 (4.50%) Kong
12 7 (3.50%) PaaS
12 7 (3.50%) SaaS
13 6 (3.00%) Apigee
13 6 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.50%) Firewall
2 16 (8.00%) DNS
3 9 (4.50%) HTTP
3 9 (4.50%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.50%) VPN
4 6 (3.00%) Network Security
5 5 (2.50%) HTTPS
5 5 (2.50%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.50%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.50%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) VoIP
7 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.50%) Big Data
1 17 (8.50%) Data Lake
2 14 (7.00%) Hadoop
3 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (6.00%) BigQuery
4 12 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.00%) Power BI
8 7 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.50%) GIS
9 5 (2.50%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (2.50%) Redis
9 5 (2.50%) Tableau
10 4 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (18.50%) Git
2 28 (14.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.00%) JIRA
4 16 (8.00%) GitLab
5 10 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (4.50%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.50%) Travis CI
7 5 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.00%) AppScan
8 4 (2.00%) Burp Suite
8 4 (2.00%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.50%) Retail
5 9 (4.50%) Finance
6 7 (3.50%) Banking
7 4 (2.00%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.00%) Law
8 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (24.50%) Architect
2 28 (14.00%) Developer
3 26 (13.00%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.50%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.00%) Project Manager
8 10 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Analyst
10 8 (4.00%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.00%) Security Architect
11 7 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (3.00%) Lead
12 6 (3.00%) Senior
13 5 (2.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.00%) Kafka
2 13 (6.50%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (6.00%) XML
4 11 (5.50%) JSON
5 9 (4.50%) YAML
6 8 (4.00%) .NET
7 7 (3.50%) OAuth
8 6 (3.00%) GraphQL
8 6 (3.00%) gRPC
8 6 (3.00%) JWT
8 6 (3.00%) OpenAPI
8 6 (3.00%) RESTful
8 6 (3.00%) SailPoint
8 6 (3.00%) Swagger
9 5 (2.50%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.50%) Node.js
9 5 (2.50%) SignalR
10 4 (2.00%) Web Services
11 3 (1.50%) Blazor
11 3 (1.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.50%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.00%) NHS
3 6 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (3.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.00%) Replication
4 5 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.00%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.50%) Windows
2 16 (8.00%) Linux
3 11 (5.50%) Windows 10
4 9 (4.50%) Unix
5 7 (3.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.50%) DevOps
2 48 (24.00%) Agile
3 42 (21.00%) Containerisation
4 39 (19.50%) Data Modelling
5 34 (17.00%) CI/CD
6 33 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (12.50%) Analytics
10 23 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (11.50%) Migration
11 22 (11.00%) Data Integration
12 21 (10.50%) ETL
13 18 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (9.00%) Data Governance
14 17 (8.50%) Scrum
15 16 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
15 16 (8.00%) Project Management
15 16 (8.00%) Task Automation
16 15 (7.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.00%) Python
2 40 (20.00%) SQL
3 28 (14.00%) Bash
4 25 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.50%) Java
6 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.00%) C#
8 3 (1.50%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.50%) Go
8 3 (1.50%) Scala
9 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 1 (0.50%) ABAP
10 1 (0.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.50%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.00%) Degree
2 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
2 11 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.50%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) CCNA
6 2 (1.00%) CCNP
6 2 (1.00%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.50%) CEH
7 1 (0.50%) CISM
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.50%) QA
2 8 (4.00%) GDPR
3 6 (3.00%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) GRC
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PMO
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (16.50%) Docker
2 26 (13.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.50%) HDFS
4 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) ACF2
5 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) IAG
5 1 (0.50%) RACF
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (18.00%) Kubernetes
1 36 (18.00%) Terraform
2 14 (7.00%) Ansible
2 14 (7.00%) Progress Chef
2 14 (7.00%) Prometheus
2 14 (7.00%) Puppet
3 13 (6.50%) Grafana
4 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.50%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (4.50%) Kibana
5 9 (4.50%) logstash
6 4 (2.00%) Graylog
6 4 (2.00%) HP Fortify
6 4 (2.00%) Nessus
6 4 (2.00%) WebInspect
7 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.50%) Google
3 18 (9.00%) F5
4 15 (7.50%) Splunk
5 7 (3.50%) Brio
5 7 (3.50%) Databricks
6 6 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.50%) SAP
8 4 (2.00%) Checkmarx
8 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.00%) Veracode
8 4 (2.00%) VMware
9 3 (1.50%) Oracle
10 2 (1.00%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.00%) Cisco
10 2 (1.00%) Qualys
10 2 (1.00%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.50%) Confluent
11 1 (0.50%) Intapp
11 1 (0.50%) Thycotic