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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,884 4,513 6,995
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.30% 16.88% 17.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.73% 43.33% 43.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,128 3,257 5,156
10th Percentile £375 £413 £423
25th Percentile £454 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £692
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 19
10th Percentile £18.21 £21.25 £22.58
25th Percentile £22.08 £23.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £23.40 £34.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% -24.44% -21.05%
75th Percentile £35.00 £64.50 £81.88
90th Percentile - £83.75 £91.72
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £48.27
% change year-on-year -36.36% +13.94% -4.89%

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 6,749 10,416 16,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.14% 38.95% 41.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,979 7,615 12,134
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £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 £785 £764
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 87 87
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £16.18
25th Percentile £21.81 £24.00 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.70% +9.08% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.05
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +1 458 £550 -4.35% 176
West London +7 40 £475 -32.14% 43
East London +1 37 £538 +4.37% 34
South London +12 22 £475 -12.04% 16
North London +2 2 £438 +191.67% 2
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
1 156 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 111 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (3.26%) Apache
4 69 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 64 (2.22%) Confluence
6 59 (2.05%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.94%) IIS
8 23 (0.80%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
9 11 (0.38%) nginx
10 10 (0.35%) Site Server
10 10 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.24%) JBoss
12 6 (0.21%) Skype for Business
12 6 (0.21%) Tornado
13 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
13 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 30 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.069%) Sketch
7 2 (0.069%) Trello
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.035%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.035%) InDesign
8 1 (0.035%) InVision
8 1 (0.035%) Marvel
8 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 76 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 16 (0.55%) Endur
4 10 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.28%) Shopify
7 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 5 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
10 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.10%) Primavera
11 2 (0.069%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.069%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
11 2 (0.069%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 764 (26.49%) AWS
2 650 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
3 383 (13.28%) GCP
4 336 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
5 320 (11.10%) Power Platform
6 305 (10.58%) Entra ID
7 169 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 166 (5.76%) Serverless
9 149 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 149 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
10 131 (4.54%) GitHub
11 122 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 116 (4.02%) PaaS
13 108 (3.74%) IaaS
14 102 (3.54%) Azure Functions
15 98 (3.40%) Power Automate
15 98 (3.40%) PowerApps
16 94 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 90 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 89 (3.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 167 (5.79%) Firewall
2 108 (3.74%) DNS
3 58 (2.01%) VPN
4 48 (1.66%) DHCP
4 48 (1.66%) WAN
5 46 (1.60%) LAN
6 43 (1.49%) Network Security
7 34 (1.18%) MPLS
8 31 (1.07%) TCP/IP
9 29 (1.01%) Wireless
10 28 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 25 (0.87%) SAN
11 25 (0.87%) VLAN
12 24 (0.83%) OSPF
13 23 (0.80%) Internet
14 22 (0.76%) BGP
15 20 (0.69%) HTTP
16 18 (0.62%) IPsec
16 18 (0.62%) NAS
17 13 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 250 (8.67%) Power BI
3 183 (6.35%) Data Lake
4 162 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
5 151 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
6 141 (4.89%) NoSQL
7 109 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 101 (3.50%) Big Data
9 57 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 52 (1.80%) Apache Ignite
11 50 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 49 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 48 (1.66%) MySQL
14 36 (1.25%) Tableau
15 23 (0.80%) RDBMS
16 22 (0.76%) Metadata
16 22 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 21 (0.73%) Delta Lake
18 20 (0.69%) Redis
19 19 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 210 (7.28%) Git
2 112 (3.88%) JIRA
3 94 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.32%) GitLab
5 57 (1.98%) Cypress.io
6 52 (1.80%) SpecFlow
7 47 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 42 (1.46%) Selenium
9 29 (1.01%) TeamCity
10 27 (0.94%) Maven
11 24 (0.83%) Postman
12 20 (0.69%) JMeter
13 17 (0.59%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 15 (0.52%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
16 9 (0.31%) Gradle
16 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
17 8 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 771 (26.73%) Finance
2 629 (21.81%) Social Skills
3 292 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 256 (8.88%) Banking
5 236 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
6 176 (6.10%) Front Office
7 90 (3.12%) Marketing
8 72 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 72 (2.50%) Retail
9 58 (2.01%) Back Office
10 44 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 43 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.25%) Law
14 35 (1.21%) Financial Institution
15 34 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.07%) Legal
17 26 (0.90%) Local Government
18 24 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 648 (22.47%) Developer
2 464 (16.09%) Architect
3 358 (12.41%) Senior
4 281 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
5 214 (7.42%) Data Engineer
6 184 (6.38%) Lead
7 180 (6.24%) Analyst
8 167 (5.79%) Software Engineer
9 160 (5.55%) Senior Developer
10 154 (5.34%) Consultant
11 131 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
12 122 (4.23%) .NET Developer
13 121 (4.20%) Python Developer
14 113 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
15 108 (3.74%) C# Developer
16 100 (3.47%) Data Architect
17 96 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
18 94 (3.26%) Azure Data Engineer
18 94 (3.26%) Azure Developer
19 87 (3.02%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (16.50%) .NET
2 218 (7.56%) React
3 169 (5.86%) .NET Core
4 156 (5.41%) XML
5 133 (4.61%) HTML
6 121 (4.20%) .NET Framework
7 119 (4.13%) REST
8 106 (3.68%) CSS
9 103 (3.57%) AngularJS
10 96 (3.33%) Kafka
10 96 (3.33%) PySpark
11 91 (3.16%) ASP.NET
12 86 (2.98%) Redux
13 77 (2.67%) Node.js
14 74 (2.57%) JSON
15 65 (2.25%) gRPC
15 65 (2.25%) Web Services
16 61 (2.12%) Protocol Buffers
16 61 (2.12%) RESTful
17 55 (1.91%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 146 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 110 (3.81%) Fixed Income
3 107 (3.71%) Hedge funds
4 88 (3.05%) Derivative
5 86 (2.98%) Cloud Native
6 75 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 75 (2.60%) Equities
7 59 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 58 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 55 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 54 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 39 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 38 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 36 (1.25%) PKI
14 34 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 26 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
16 25 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 25 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 343 (11.89%) Windows
2 178 (6.17%) Linux
3 128 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.12%) Windows 10
5 49 (1.70%) Unix
6 31 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (0.69%) Android
9 16 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.45%) VMS
11 12 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.38%) Solaris
12 11 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.38%) Windows 7
13 10 (0.35%) 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 1,052 (36.48%) DevOps
2 910 (31.55%) Agile
3 468 (16.23%) CI/CD
4 359 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
5 352 (12.21%) Software Engineering
6 334 (11.58%) Migration
7 289 (10.02%) Scrum
8 286 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
9 259 (8.98%) Analytics
10 229 (7.94%) Data Modelling
11 192 (6.66%) ETL
12 183 (6.35%) Full Stack Development
13 181 (6.28%) TDD
14 169 (5.86%) Computer Science
15 167 (5.79%) Microservices
16 159 (5.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 155 (5.37%) Test Automation
18 150 (5.20%) Asset Management
19 148 (5.13%) Project Delivery
20 144 (4.99%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 635 (22.02%) SQL
2 604 (20.94%) Python
3 518 (17.96%) C#
4 419 (14.53%) PowerShell
5 248 (8.60%) JavaScript
6 191 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 186 (6.45%) Java
8 117 (4.06%) Bicep
9 68 (2.36%) Bash
10 53 (1.84%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.66%) Scala
12 38 (1.32%) C++
13 32 (1.11%) Go
13 32 (1.11%) R
14 22 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 18 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.55%) PHP
16 16 (0.55%) Ruby
17 15 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 274 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 268 (9.29%) Degree
3 239 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 107 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 46 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (1.42%) CISSP
7 41 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.83%) CISM
11 21 (0.73%) CCNP
12 20 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.45%) CCNA
15 11 (0.38%) PMP
16 10 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (3.85%) QA
2 97 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 50 (1.73%) NIST
4 49 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (1.66%) GDPR
6 37 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.11%) SLA
8 20 (0.69%) WCAG
9 15 (0.52%) NCSC
10 13 (0.45%) PMO
11 10 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.35%) GRC
12 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.17%) COBIT
13 5 (0.17%) IFRS
13 5 (0.17%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 429 (14.88%) Active Directory
2 206 (7.14%) Docker
3 74 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.70%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.49%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) 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 2 (0.069%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.069%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.069%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 285 (9.88%) Terraform
2 249 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 124 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 98 (3.40%) Ansible
5 67 (2.32%) SCCM
6 39 (1.35%) Puppet
6 39 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (0.73%) Grafana
9 19 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 17 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (0.55%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.45%) Argo
13 13 (0.45%) PingFederate
13 13 (0.45%) SCOM
14 11 (0.38%) Netcool
15 9 (0.31%) Kibana
16 8 (0.28%) Tivoli
16 8 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 971 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 231 (8.01%) Databricks
3 183 (6.35%) Oracle
4 135 (4.68%) Google
5 117 (4.06%) VMware
6 88 (3.05%) SAP
7 71 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 69 (2.39%) Cisco
9 57 (1.98%) Splunk
10 44 (1.53%) Citrix
11 42 (1.46%) CyberArk
12 39 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 31 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.01%) F5
14 29 (1.01%) MuleSoft
15 28 (0.97%) Informatica
15 28 (0.97%) Okta
16 26 (0.90%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.83%) Dell
18 23 (0.80%) IBM