Azure Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 469 676 765
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 19.61% 18.31% 17.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.80% 46.94% 39.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 410 602
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £725 £656
90th Percentile £773 £801 £750
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £54.25 £26.29
25th Percentile - £58.75 £36.07
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year - +39.90% +66.38%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £78.75
90th Percentile - £80.75 £117.00
London median hourly rate £23.80 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.54% -7.50% -9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 961 1,440 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.18% 39.01% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 956 1,556
10th Percentile £358 £294 £363
25th Percentile £434 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £584 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% +1.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 10
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.73 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £38.13 £14.34
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £23.34
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +189.17% +3.74%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £47.88
90th Percentile £38.63 - £66.00
London median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.48% +31.25% -6.98%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Central London over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 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
City of London +1 428 £550 -4.35% 143
City of Westminster -3 6 £563 +40.63% 9
West End of London -8 4 £535 -10.83% 11
Camden -1 2 £650 +100.00% 10
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 34 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.61%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.77%) Confluence
4 9 (1.92%) Apache
4 9 (1.92%) IIS
5 7 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.07%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.85%) Site Server
8 3 (0.64%) CMS
9 2 (0.43%) JBoss
9 2 (0.43%) Luigi
9 2 (0.43%) nginx
9 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.71%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.43%) Primavera
3 2 (0.43%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.21%) Endur
4 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 121 (25.80%) Azure DevOps
2 98 (20.90%) AWS
3 62 (13.22%) Power Platform
4 60 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (12.37%) Entra ID
6 40 (8.53%) GCP
7 35 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (6.40%) Azure Service Bus
9 29 (6.18%) GitHub
10 27 (5.76%) Power Automate
10 27 (5.76%) PowerApps
10 27 (5.76%) Serverless
11 22 (4.69%) Azure Functions
12 19 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 17 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (3.62%) IaaS
14 15 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.99%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.82%) Firewall
2 17 (3.62%) DNS
3 11 (2.35%) Network Security
4 9 (1.92%) Internet
4 9 (1.92%) VPN
5 7 (1.49%) WAN
6 6 (1.28%) DHCP
7 5 (1.07%) LAN
7 5 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.85%) MPLS
8 4 (0.85%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.43%) CTI
10 2 (0.43%) HTTP
10 2 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.43%) SAN
10 2 (0.43%) SSL
10 2 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (15.14%) SQL Server
2 42 (8.96%) Power BI
3 36 (7.68%) NoSQL
4 27 (5.76%) Data Lake
5 23 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.13%) MySQL
9 7 (1.49%) Big Data
9 7 (1.49%) Redis
9 7 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.85%) GIS
11 4 (0.85%) Parquet
11 4 (0.85%) Power Query
11 4 (0.85%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.64%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (5.97%) Git
2 15 (3.20%) GitLab
3 14 (2.99%) JIRA
4 11 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.35%) SpecFlow
4 11 (2.35%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.92%) Selenium
6 7 (1.49%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.49%) JMeter
7 6 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.85%) Mercurial
9 4 (0.85%) Postman
9 4 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.64%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.43%) Deequ
11 2 (0.43%) Gradle
11 2 (0.43%) Maven
11 2 (0.43%) Mockito
11 2 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 125 (26.65%) Finance
2 109 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 47 (10.02%) Banking
4 38 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.26%) Retail
7 19 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.56%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.13%) Legal
11 9 (1.92%) Back Office
12 8 (1.71%) General Ledger
13 7 (1.49%) Front Office
13 7 (1.49%) Marketing
14 5 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.85%) French Language
16 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.43%) Advertising
17 2 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 109 (23.24%) Developer
2 72 (15.35%) Architect
3 58 (12.37%) Senior
4 34 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
5 33 (7.04%) Consultant
6 29 (6.18%) Analyst
7 28 (5.97%) Lead
8 27 (5.76%) Full Stack Developer
9 26 (5.54%) Senior Developer
10 22 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 19 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.62%) Azure Architect
12 17 (3.62%) Azure Developer
12 17 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.20%) Software Developer
14 14 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (2.99%) Product Owner
15 12 (2.56%) Software Engineer
16 11 (2.35%) Business Analyst
17 10 (2.13%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (17.06%) .NET
2 27 (5.76%) XML
3 26 (5.54%) .NET Core
3 26 (5.54%) REST
4 23 (4.90%) .NET Framework
4 23 (4.90%) React
5 22 (4.69%) HTML
5 22 (4.69%) Kafka
6 21 (4.48%) ASP.NET
7 18 (3.84%) Web Services
8 17 (3.62%) CSS
9 14 (2.99%) JSON
10 11 (2.35%) PySpark
10 11 (2.35%) RESTful
11 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (2.13%) Node.js
11 10 (2.13%) SAML
12 9 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (1.71%) Blazor
13 8 (1.71%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.61%) Product Ownership
2 14 (2.99%) Data Centre
3 13 (2.77%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.77%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.49%) PKI
8 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.85%) Contactless
9 4 (0.85%) Derivative
9 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.85%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.85%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.50%) Windows
2 30 (6.40%) Linux
3 20 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.07%) Unix
6 4 (0.85%) VMS
7 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (35.18%) DevOps
2 159 (33.90%) Agile
3 81 (17.27%) CI/CD
4 60 (12.79%) Migration
5 54 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (11.51%) Scrum
6 47 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (8.53%) Analytics
7 40 (8.53%) Software Engineering
8 32 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (6.61%) Data Modelling
9 31 (6.61%) Full Stack Development
10 29 (6.18%) Computer Science
11 27 (5.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (5.54%) SDLC
13 25 (5.33%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (5.33%) Project Management
14 24 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (4.90%) Data Loss Prevention
15 23 (4.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 100 (21.32%) SQL
2 86 (18.34%) Python
3 83 (17.70%) PowerShell
4 75 (15.99%) C#
5 30 (6.40%) JavaScript
6 27 (5.76%) Java
7 20 (4.26%) Bicep
8 13 (2.77%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.35%) C++
10 8 (1.71%) Go
11 7 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.28%) Bash
12 6 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.85%) Korn
14 4 (0.85%) R
14 4 (0.85%) Rust
14 4 (0.85%) Scala
15 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 52 (11.09%) Degree
2 21 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.05%) Azure Certification
4 13 (2.77%) Security Cleared
5 9 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.71%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.07%) CISSP
7 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.85%) CISM
8 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.64%) CRISC
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
10 2 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.77%) QA
2 11 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.35%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.92%) GDPR
4 8 (1.71%) NIST
5 7 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.28%) SLA
7 5 (1.07%) WCAG
8 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.64%) COBIT
9 3 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.64%) ISO 31000
9 3 (0.64%) NCSC
9 3 (0.64%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.64%) PMO
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 77 (16.42%) Active Directory
2 39 (8.32%) Docker
3 16 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.43%) XenApp
8 1 (0.21%) Ceph
8 1 (0.21%) KVM
8 1 (0.21%) NFS
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (11.30%) Kubernetes
2 39 (8.32%) Terraform
3 26 (5.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.92%) PingFederate
5 8 (1.71%) Ansible
5 8 (1.71%) SCCM
5 8 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.49%) Puppet
7 6 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.28%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.07%) Argo
8 5 (1.07%) Grafana
8 5 (1.07%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.64%) CASB
10 3 (0.64%) Nagios
11 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.43%) Graylog
11 2 (0.43%) SCOrch
12 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 173 (36.89%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.25%) Oracle
3 30 (6.40%) Databricks
4 19 (4.05%) VMware
5 15 (3.20%) Citrix
5 15 (3.20%) Google
6 10 (2.13%) Cisco
7 9 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.71%) SAP
9 6 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.07%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.07%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.07%) Splunk
11 4 (0.85%) ESRI
11 4 (0.85%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.85%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.85%) IBM
11 4 (0.85%) Juniper
11 4 (0.85%) Okta
11 4 (0.85%) Symantec