Azure Storage Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 423 568
Rank change year-on-year +116 +145 -136
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 42 36 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.38% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 52
10th Percentile £374 £404 £401
25th Percentile £530 £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 £600 £606
% change year-on-year +0.83% -1.03% +10.23%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,369 9,537 18,208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 39.34% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,113 13,635
10th Percentile £350 £370 £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 £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 134 154
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.10
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.26 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +26.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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 2 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 20 (47.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (2.38%) Drupal
3 1 (2.38%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (59.52%) Entra ID
3 21 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (19.05%) Azure Functions
4 8 (19.05%) Serverless
5 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 5 (11.90%) Azure App Service
7 5 (11.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (11.90%) PaaS
8 4 (9.52%) Azure API Management
8 4 (9.52%) Azure Batch
8 4 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (9.52%) Power Automate
8 4 (9.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (52.38%) Firewall
2 21 (50.00%) DNS
3 20 (47.62%) DHCP
4 3 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 4 (9.52%) OLTP
5 3 (7.14%) Big Data
6 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.76%) Power BI
6 2 (4.76%) Redis
7 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Law
3 2 (4.76%) Legal
3 2 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (33.33%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (33.33%) Support Specialist
3 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (57.14%) ARM Templates
2 6 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 3 (7.14%) JSON
3 3 (7.14%) Web Services
3 3 (7.14%) XML
4 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (4.76%) PySpark
4 2 (4.76%) pytest
4 2 (4.76%) YAML
5 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.38%) Blazor
5 1 (2.38%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) RESTful
5 1 (2.38%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (47.62%) PKI
1 20 (47.62%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 28 (66.67%) Windows
2 24 (57.14%) Linux
3 23 (54.76%) Windows Server
4 21 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (47.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.14%) VMS
7 2 (4.76%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) Agile
2 27 (64.29%) DevOps
3 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 24 (57.14%) Analytics
5 23 (54.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (50.00%) Log Analytics
7 20 (47.62%) Identity Management
7 20 (47.62%) ITIL
7 20 (47.62%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 20 (47.62%) Privileged Identity Management
7 20 (47.62%) RBAC
7 20 (47.62%) Release Management
7 20 (47.62%) Service Management
8 10 (23.81%) Migration
9 7 (16.67%) Microservices
10 5 (11.90%) API Management
11 4 (9.52%) BDD
11 4 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
11 4 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) C#
2 26 (61.90%) PowerShell
3 21 (50.00%) Bicep
4 20 (47.62%) VB
4 20 (47.62%) VBScript
5 12 (28.57%) SQL
6 6 (14.29%) Python
7 3 (7.14%) Java
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 2 (4.76%) C++
8 2 (4.76%) Go
8 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (47.62%) Degree
2 20 (47.62%) DV Cleared
2 20 (47.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 20 (47.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 24 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 24 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (59.52%) Kubernetes
2 21 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (47.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (47.62%) SCCM
3 20 (47.62%) SCOM
3 20 (47.62%) WSUS
4 7 (16.67%) Terraform
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (73.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) NetApp
4 1 (2.38%) Sitecore