Azure Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 418 640 688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 19.18% 18.02% 16.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.83% 47.48% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 396 531
10th Percentile £400 £413 £446
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £650
90th Percentile £775 £823 £743
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £54.25 £30.55
25th Percentile - £58.75 £46.71
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £77.59
Median % change year-on-year - -13.01% +167.56%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £112.02
90th Percentile - £80.75 £130.31
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £67.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -65.93% +62.65% +43.10%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 856 1,348 1,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.28% 37.96% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 902 1,441
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £434 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £668 £705 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -7.43%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £20.19
% change year-on-year -72.73% +308.72% -13.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 36 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.87%) Confluence
4 9 (2.15%) IIS
5 7 (1.67%) Apache
6 6 (1.44%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.20%) Site Server
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) JBoss
8 2 (0.48%) Luigi
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.24%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.91%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.48%) Primavera
3 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.24%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 105 (25.12%) Azure DevOps
2 87 (20.81%) AWS
3 64 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (15.07%) Power Platform
5 52 (12.44%) Entra ID
6 35 (8.37%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (7.66%) GCP
8 28 (6.70%) Power Automate
9 27 (6.46%) Serverless
10 26 (6.22%) PowerApps
11 25 (5.98%) GitHub
12 21 (5.02%) Azure Functions
12 21 (5.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (4.31%) IaaS
14 15 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (3.35%) Mimecast
16 13 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.66%) Firewall
2 17 (4.07%) DNS
3 11 (2.63%) Network Security
4 7 (1.67%) VPN
5 6 (1.44%) Internet
6 5 (1.20%) MPLS
7 4 (0.96%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.96%) WAN
8 3 (0.72%) DHCP
8 3 (0.72%) SAN
8 3 (0.72%) SSL
8 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.72%) Wireless
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.48%) LAN
9 2 (0.48%) NAS
9 2 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.48%) VLAN
9 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 42 (10.05%) Power BI
3 26 (6.22%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.50%) Data Lake
5 20 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.39%) MySQL
9 7 (1.67%) Big Data
10 5 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.20%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.20%) GIS
10 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.96%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.96%) Redis
12 3 (0.72%) Metadata
12 3 (0.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 25 (5.98%) Git
2 13 (3.11%) GitLab
3 12 (2.87%) JIRA
4 11 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.39%) Visual Studio
6 9 (2.15%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.91%) Selenium
8 7 (1.67%) JMeter
9 6 (1.44%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.20%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.96%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.96%) Postman
12 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.72%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.48%) Subversion
14 1 (0.24%) AppScan
14 1 (0.24%) Maven
14 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
14 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 111 (26.56%) Finance
2 104 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 39 (9.33%) Banking
5 27 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.59%) Retail
8 12 (2.87%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.15%) Legal
10 8 (1.91%) General Ledger
10 8 (1.91%) Marketing
11 6 (1.44%) Back Office
11 6 (1.44%) French Language
11 6 (1.44%) Front Office
12 5 (1.20%) Local Government
13 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (22.25%) Developer
2 67 (16.03%) Architect
3 49 (11.72%) Senior
4 30 (7.18%) Consultant
5 29 (6.94%) Analyst
6 28 (6.70%) Full Stack Developer
7 27 (6.46%) Lead
8 24 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.02%) Senior Developer
10 17 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.59%) Azure Architect
11 15 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.87%) Product Owner
13 12 (2.87%) Software Developer
13 12 (2.87%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.39%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.39%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.15%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.31%) .NET
2 23 (5.50%) REST
3 20 (4.78%) .NET Core
3 20 (4.78%) XML
4 19 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 19 (4.55%) React
5 18 (4.31%) ASP.NET
5 18 (4.31%) HTML
6 17 (4.07%) Web Services
7 14 (3.35%) Kafka
8 13 (3.11%) CSS
9 11 (2.63%) JSON
9 11 (2.63%) Node.js
10 10 (2.39%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (2.15%) SAML
12 8 (1.91%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (1.91%) Blazor
12 8 (1.91%) PySpark
12 8 (1.91%) RESTful
12 8 (1.91%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.87%) Cloud Native
2 12 (2.87%) Public Cloud
3 11 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.15%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.91%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.91%) PKI
6 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.96%) Derivative
9 4 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.96%) Wiki
10 3 (0.72%) IoT
10 3 (0.72%) Machine to Machine
10 3 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 60 (14.35%) Windows
2 29 (6.94%) Linux
3 18 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.91%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.20%) Unix
6 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.48%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (34.45%) DevOps
2 138 (33.01%) Agile
3 62 (14.83%) CI/CD
4 53 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (12.20%) Migration
6 46 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (10.05%) Scrum
8 38 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 33 (7.89%) Analytics
10 31 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (7.18%) Full Stack Development
12 29 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (6.70%) Computer Science
14 26 (6.22%) Data Modelling
15 25 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 24 (5.74%) Data Loss Prevention
17 23 (5.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (5.50%) Roadmaps
18 22 (5.26%) Project Management
18 22 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 82 (19.62%) SQL
2 77 (18.42%) Python
3 74 (17.70%) PowerShell
4 63 (15.07%) C#
5 26 (6.22%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.26%) Java
7 14 (3.35%) Bicep
8 12 (2.87%) C++
9 9 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.91%) Go
11 6 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.20%) Korn
13 4 (0.96%) Bash
13 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.96%) R
13 4 (0.96%) Rust
13 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.72%) Scala
15 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 49 (11.72%) Degree
2 21 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.83%) Azure Certification
3 16 (3.83%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (1.91%) CISSP
7 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.20%) CISM
8 5 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.72%) CCSK
10 3 (0.72%) CRISC
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.48%) CIMA
11 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.87%) NIST
1 12 (2.87%) QA
2 8 (1.91%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.67%) SLA
4 4 (0.96%) GDPR
4 4 (0.96%) NCSC
5 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.72%) ISO 31000
5 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.72%) PMO
5 3 (0.72%) WCAG
6 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (15.31%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.94%) Docker
3 12 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.48%) XenApp
7 1 (0.24%) Ceph
7 1 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.24%) NFS
7 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.66%) Terraform
3 31 (7.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (2.39%) SCCM
5 9 (2.15%) PingFederate
6 8 (1.91%) Ansible
7 6 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.44%) Argo
8 5 (1.20%) Puppet
8 5 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.96%) Grafana
9 4 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.72%) Nagios
10 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.48%) Graylog
12 1 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.24%) logstash
12 1 (0.24%) Mesos
Vendors
1 159 (38.04%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.89%) Oracle
3 29 (6.94%) Databricks
4 15 (3.59%) VMware
5 14 (3.35%) Citrix
6 11 (2.63%) Google
7 9 (2.15%) Okta
8 8 (1.91%) Cisco
8 8 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.44%) SAP
9 6 (1.44%) Splunk
10 5 (1.20%) ESRI
11 4 (0.96%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.96%) IBM
11 4 (0.96%) Informatica
11 4 (0.96%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.96%) Symantec
12 3 (0.72%) Aruba
12 3 (0.72%) Proofpoint