Azure Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,906 4,439 6,951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.42% 16.89% 17.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.89% 43.37% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,147 3,207 5,127
10th Percentile £375 £413 £421
25th Percentile £457 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £690
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £545 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 19
10th Percentile £18.21 £22.35 £22.58
25th Percentile £22.08 £24.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £23.40 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.50% -11.11% -21.05%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.25 £81.88
90th Percentile - £87.50 £91.72
England median hourly rate £35.00 £58.65 £48.27
% change year-on-year -40.32% +21.50% -3.46%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,776 10,235 16,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.30% 38.94% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,998 7,484 12,031
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £769
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 85 85
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £47.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% +17.28% +8.00%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.20
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -34.98% +51.55% +0.95%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +1 455 £550 -4.35% 181
West London +6 39 £475 -32.14% 55
East London +2 38 £539 +4.61% 46
South London +11 22 £475 -12.04% 25
North London +2 2 £438 +191.67% 8
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 155 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 110 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 102 (3.51%) Apache
4 77 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 64 (2.20%) Confluence
6 60 (2.06%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.93%) IIS
8 24 (0.83%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
9 11 (0.38%) nginx
10 10 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.31%) Site Server
12 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.24%) JBoss
13 6 (0.21%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.21%) Tornado
14 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
14 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 56 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.069%) Sketch
7 2 (0.069%) Trello
8 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.034%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.034%) InDesign
8 1 (0.034%) InVision
8 1 (0.034%) Marvel
8 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 76 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.58%) Endur
4 10 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.28%) Shopify
7 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 5 (0.17%) SAP GRC
9 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
11 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.10%) Primavera
12 2 (0.069%) BusinessWorks
12 2 (0.069%) FLEXCUBE
12 2 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
12 2 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 781 (26.88%) AWS
2 654 (22.51%) Azure DevOps
3 397 (13.66%) GCP
4 326 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
5 318 (10.94%) Power Platform
6 306 (10.53%) Entra ID
7 169 (5.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 168 (5.78%) Serverless
9 153 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 150 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
11 129 (4.44%) GitHub
12 121 (4.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 117 (4.03%) PaaS
14 108 (3.72%) IaaS
15 103 (3.54%) Azure Functions
16 98 (3.37%) Power Automate
16 98 (3.37%) PowerApps
17 96 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
18 89 (3.06%) SaaS
19 88 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 170 (5.85%) Firewall
2 104 (3.58%) DNS
3 57 (1.96%) VPN
4 48 (1.65%) WAN
5 47 (1.62%) DHCP
6 46 (1.58%) LAN
7 44 (1.51%) Network Security
8 33 (1.14%) MPLS
9 30 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 29 (1.00%) Wireless
11 28 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 25 (0.86%) SAN
12 25 (0.86%) VLAN
13 24 (0.83%) OSPF
14 23 (0.79%) Internet
15 22 (0.76%) BGP
16 20 (0.69%) HTTP
17 19 (0.65%) NAS
18 18 (0.62%) IPsec
19 14 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (14.83%) SQL Server
2 248 (8.53%) Power BI
3 185 (6.37%) Data Lake
4 159 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
6 146 (5.02%) NoSQL
7 110 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 102 (3.51%) Big Data
9 61 (2.10%) Relational Database
10 60 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
11 49 (1.69%) MongoDB
12 48 (1.65%) MySQL
13 44 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.27%) Tableau
15 26 (0.89%) RDBMS
16 22 (0.76%) Delta Lake
16 22 (0.76%) Redis
17 21 (0.72%) Metadata
18 19 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 17 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 212 (7.30%) Git
2 108 (3.72%) JIRA
3 92 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.27%) GitLab
5 63 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 52 (1.79%) SpecFlow
7 47 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 43 (1.48%) Selenium
9 29 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 24 (0.83%) Maven
11 22 (0.76%) Postman
12 20 (0.69%) JMeter
13 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.52%) WebDriver
15 14 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 10 (0.34%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
18 8 (0.28%) ERwin
18 8 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 784 (26.98%) Finance
2 628 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 299 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 269 (9.26%) Banking
5 239 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 185 (6.37%) Front Office
7 86 (2.96%) Marketing
8 73 (2.51%) Retail
9 70 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 61 (2.10%) Back Office
11 45 (1.55%) Investment Banking
12 41 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 37 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 37 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.14%) Law
14 33 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 32 (1.10%) Legal
16 26 (0.89%) Local Government
17 23 (0.79%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 658 (22.64%) Developer
2 474 (16.31%) Architect
3 362 (12.46%) Senior
4 280 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
5 214 (7.36%) Data Engineer
6 185 (6.37%) Lead
7 184 (6.33%) Analyst
8 175 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 161 (5.54%) Senior Developer
10 154 (5.30%) Consultant
11 135 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
12 129 (4.44%) Python Developer
13 122 (4.20%) .NET Developer
14 115 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
15 106 (3.65%) C# Developer
16 102 (3.51%) Data Architect
17 100 (3.44%) Full Stack Developer
18 94 (3.23%) Azure Developer
19 93 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
20 92 (3.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (16.69%) .NET
2 227 (7.81%) React
3 171 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 159 (5.47%) XML
5 134 (4.61%) HTML
6 122 (4.20%) .NET Framework
7 120 (4.13%) REST
8 106 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 104 (3.58%) CSS
10 100 (3.44%) Kafka
11 98 (3.37%) PySpark
12 93 (3.20%) Redux
13 92 (3.17%) ASP.NET
14 74 (2.55%) JSON
15 73 (2.51%) gRPC
15 73 (2.51%) Node.js
16 69 (2.37%) Protocol Buffers
16 69 (2.37%) Web Services
17 63 (2.17%) Material-UI
18 59 (2.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 150 (5.16%) Product Ownership
2 117 (4.03%) Fixed Income
3 115 (3.96%) Hedge funds
4 86 (2.96%) Derivative
5 84 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 80 (2.75%) Equities
7 73 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 60 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 59 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 57 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 56 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
12 53 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 41 (1.41%) Management Information System
14 39 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
15 36 (1.24%) PKI
16 34 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (0.93%) Mobile App
18 26 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
18 26 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
19 25 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 344 (11.84%) Windows
2 185 (6.37%) Linux
3 127 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 53 (1.82%) Unix
6 34 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (0.69%) Android
9 16 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.45%) VMS
10 13 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.41%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.38%) Solaris
12 11 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.38%) Windows 7
13 10 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.28%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.21%) CentOS
16 3 (0.10%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,055 (36.30%) DevOps
2 924 (31.80%) Agile
3 471 (16.21%) CI/CD
4 365 (12.56%) Software Engineering
5 361 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
6 334 (11.49%) Migration
7 288 (9.91%) Scrum
8 281 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
9 264 (9.08%) Analytics
10 230 (7.91%) Data Modelling
11 188 (6.47%) ETL
12 187 (6.43%) Full Stack Development
13 182 (6.26%) TDD
14 173 (5.95%) Computer Science
15 172 (5.92%) Microservices
16 161 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
17 160 (5.51%) Asset Management
18 157 (5.40%) Test Automation
19 144 (4.96%) Data Pipeline
19 144 (4.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 647 (22.26%) SQL
2 615 (21.16%) Python
3 525 (18.07%) C#
4 420 (14.45%) PowerShell
5 248 (8.53%) JavaScript
6 197 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 189 (6.50%) Java
8 119 (4.09%) Bicep
9 69 (2.37%) Bash
10 51 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.65%) Scala
12 39 (1.34%) C++
13 35 (1.20%) Go
14 31 (1.07%) R
15 21 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 17 (0.58%) Ruby
19 15 (0.52%) PHP
19 15 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 277 (9.53%) Security Cleared
2 270 (9.29%) Degree
3 242 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 108 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 51 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 44 (1.51%) CISSP
8 40 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 31 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (0.89%) CISM
13 21 (0.72%) CCNP
14 19 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.45%) CCNA
17 11 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.34%) PMP
19 9 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 9 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (3.92%) QA
2 95 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 49 (1.69%) GDPR
3 49 (1.69%) NIST
4 47 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 33 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.14%) SLA
7 20 (0.69%) WCAG
8 15 (0.52%) NCSC
9 13 (0.45%) PMO
10 10 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.31%) GRC
12 8 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.17%) COBIT
13 5 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.17%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.14%) IFRS
14 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 427 (14.69%) Active Directory
2 211 (7.26%) Docker
3 72 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.48%) vSphere
8 10 (0.34%) Firmware
9 7 (0.24%) ACF2
9 7 (0.24%) IAG
9 7 (0.24%) RACF
10 6 (0.21%) KVM
10 6 (0.21%) NFS
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.21%) XenApp
11 5 (0.17%) vCloud
12 4 (0.14%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.069%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 2 (0.069%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 286 (9.84%) Terraform
2 257 (8.84%) Kubernetes
3 121 (4.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 98 (3.37%) Ansible
5 66 (2.27%) SCCM
6 39 (1.34%) Puppet
6 39 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (0.72%) Grafana
9 19 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 17 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.45%) PingFederate
12 13 (0.45%) SCOM
13 12 (0.41%) Argo
14 11 (0.38%) Netcool
15 9 (0.31%) Kibana
16 8 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
16 8 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 965 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 233 (8.02%) Databricks
3 188 (6.47%) Oracle
4 144 (4.96%) Google
5 116 (3.99%) VMware
6 90 (3.10%) SAP
7 71 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 69 (2.37%) Cisco
9 56 (1.93%) Splunk
10 45 (1.55%) CyberArk
11 42 (1.45%) Citrix
12 38 (1.31%) Salesforce
13 31 (1.07%) MuleSoft
14 30 (1.03%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.00%) F5
15 29 (1.00%) Informatica
15 29 (1.00%) Okta
16 26 (0.89%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.83%) Dell
17 24 (0.83%) IBM