Azure Storage Contracts

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage 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 501 586 705
Rank change year-on-year +85 +119 -178
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 78 108 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.51% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 72 115
10th Percentile £397 £401 £413
25th Percentile £484 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £608 £691 £744
90th Percentile £738 £811 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +0.83% +14.29% +11.86%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Storage 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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the UK 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
England +93 75 £605 +0.83% 37
London +95 45 £588 -9.62% 11
Work from Home +113 35 £605 +3.86% 30
UK excluding London +40 24 £605 +0.83% 32
South East +27 17 £605 -13.57% 7
South West +11 5 £513 -33.87% 6
North West +17 2 £513 +17.82%
North of England +17 2 £513 +7.89% 5

Azure Storage
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 18 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (14.10%) SharePoint
3 8 (10.26%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.28%) CMS
4 1 (1.28%) Drupal
4 1 (1.28%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (48.72%) Entra ID
3 25 (32.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 24 (30.77%) Azure Functions
4 24 (30.77%) Azure Logic Apps
4 24 (30.77%) Serverless
5 23 (29.49%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (28.21%) Azure Key Vault
7 20 (25.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 19 (24.36%) Azure API Management
8 19 (24.36%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (21.79%) PaaS
10 16 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (20.51%) Power Platform
11 13 (16.67%) Power Automate
12 11 (14.10%) AWS
13 8 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (8.97%) Azure App Service
14 7 (8.97%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (8.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.64%) DHCP
1 20 (25.64%) DNS
1 20 (25.64%) Firewall
2 6 (7.69%) Intranet
3 4 (5.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (41.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 10 (12.82%) Data Lake
4 8 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.26%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.97%) OLTP
6 6 (7.69%) Big Data
7 5 (6.41%) Redis
8 3 (3.85%) Power BI
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Git
2 10 (12.82%) Postman
3 7 (8.97%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (6.41%) GitLab
5 4 (5.13%) Selenium
6 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.28%) Maven
6 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Finance
3 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.97%) Banking
5 2 (2.56%) Law
5 2 (2.56%) Legal
5 2 (2.56%) Military
5 2 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 33 (42.31%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (17.95%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (17.95%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (17.95%) Support Specialist
5 9 (11.54%) Python Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Senior
6 8 (10.26%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (8.97%) Lead
8 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
8 6 (7.69%) SharePoint Developer
9 5 (6.41%) Applications Developer
9 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Architect
10 4 (5.13%) Azure Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.05%) ARM Templates
2 17 (21.79%) .NET
3 16 (20.51%) Web Services
4 11 (14.10%) .NET Core
5 10 (12.82%) Swagger
6 8 (10.26%) Blazor
7 7 (8.97%) JSON
8 6 (7.69%) SPFx
8 6 (7.69%) XML
9 4 (5.13%) pytest
9 4 (5.13%) YAML
10 3 (3.85%) PySpark
11 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.56%) Kafka
11 2 (2.56%) RESTful
12 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
12 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET
12 1 (1.28%) Django
12 1 (1.28%) Entity Framework
12 1 (1.28%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) PKI
1 17 (21.79%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (6.41%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.85%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (46.15%) Windows
2 24 (30.77%) Linux
3 22 (28.21%) Windows Server
4 17 (21.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (21.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.13%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.56%) Unix
8 2 (2.56%) VMS
9 1 (1.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (62.82%) Agile
2 47 (60.26%) CI/CD
3 33 (42.31%) DevOps
4 26 (33.33%) Analytics
5 24 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (26.92%) API Management
7 20 (25.64%) Software Engineering
8 19 (24.36%) Microservices
8 19 (24.36%) TDD
9 17 (21.79%) Identity Management
9 17 (21.79%) ITIL
9 17 (21.79%) Log Analytics
9 17 (21.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (21.79%) Privileged Identity Management
9 17 (21.79%) RBAC
9 17 (21.79%) Release Management
9 17 (21.79%) Service Management
10 16 (20.51%) Migration
11 11 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (14.10%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (47.44%) C#
2 35 (44.87%) SQL
3 27 (34.62%) PowerShell
4 25 (32.05%) Python
5 20 (25.64%) Bicep
6 17 (21.79%) VB
6 17 (21.79%) VBScript
7 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
8 8 (10.26%) C++
8 8 (10.26%) Go
8 8 (10.26%) PL/SQL
8 8 (10.26%) T-SQL
9 6 (7.69%) Java
10 3 (3.85%) Bash
11 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (32.05%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 22 (28.21%) Degree
4 17 (21.79%) DV Cleared
4 17 (21.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 40 (51.28%) Active Directory
2 25 (32.05%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (21.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (7.69%) Docker
5 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (44.87%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (21.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (21.79%) SCCM
3 17 (21.79%) SCOM
3 17 (21.79%) WSUS
4 14 (17.95%) Terraform
5 4 (5.13%) Grafana
5 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.28%) yum
Vendors
1 49 (62.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) Oracle
3 8 (10.26%) MuleSoft
4 6 (7.69%) Databricks
5 5 (6.41%) VMware
6 3 (3.85%) CA
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco
7 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.28%) Sybase