Azure Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 322 402
Rank change year-on-year -16 +80 -53
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 58 125 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.53% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 112 92
10th Percentile £395 £450 £363
25th Percentile £503 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +21.05% +8.57%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £588
90th Percentile £680 £688 £671
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +8 34 £625 +4.17% 5
North of England +3 11 £475 -9.52% 5
Midlands +31 9 £580 +22.11% 9
West Midlands +18 9 £580 +22.11% 8
North West +7 6 £475 -9.52% 3
Yorkshire +1 4 £350 -33.33% 1
South West +2 2 £675 +22.73% 4
Scotland +35 1 £375 -37.50%
North East +13 1 - - 1
East of England +7 1 £600 -
Azure Developer
UK

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Azure Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (65.52%) DevOps
3 34 (58.62%) Full Stack Development
4 26 (44.83%) CI/CD
5 25 (43.10%) Azure Functions
5 25 (43.10%) Serverless
6 24 (41.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (41.38%) Agile
7 23 (39.66%) Python
8 22 (37.93%) Git
9 21 (36.21%) Microservices
9 21 (36.21%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (32.76%) Product Ownership
10 19 (32.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (31.03%) SDLC
11 18 (31.03%) React
11 18 (31.03%) NoSQL
12 17 (29.31%) Active Directory
12 17 (29.31%) C#
12 17 (29.31%) Entra ID
12 17 (29.31%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (25.86%) Product Backlog
13 15 (25.86%) .NET
13 15 (25.86%) Unit Testing
14 13 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (20.69%) Change Management
15 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
16 10 (17.24%) SQL
16 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
16 10 (17.24%) Finance

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) Azure Functions
2 25 (43.10%) Serverless
3 24 (41.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (36.21%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (32.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (29.31%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (29.31%) Entra ID
7 8 (13.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (10.34%) Azure API Management
9 5 (8.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
11 3 (5.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (5.17%) GitHub
12 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (3.45%) PaaS
13 1 (1.72%) Azure App Service
13 1 (1.72%) Azure Event Grid
13 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) NoSQL
2 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.17%) Power BI
4 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) GIS
5 2 (3.45%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Redis
6 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (37.93%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) Selenium
2 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.45%) Postman
4 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Music Industry
6 2 (3.45%) Electronics
6 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) React
2 15 (25.86%) .NET
3 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.90%) Entity Framework
5 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (5.17%) REST
5 3 (5.17%) Swagger
6 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.45%) Django
6 2 (3.45%) Node.js
6 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.45%) OpenID
6 2 (3.45%) OpenLayers
6 2 (3.45%) PostGIS
6 2 (3.45%) SignalR
7 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.72%) JSON
7 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (65.52%) DevOps
2 34 (58.62%) Full Stack Development
3 26 (44.83%) CI/CD
4 24 (41.38%) Agile
5 21 (36.21%) Microservices
6 18 (31.03%) SDLC
7 15 (25.86%) Product Backlog
7 15 (25.86%) Unit Testing
8 13 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (20.69%) Change Management
10 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
11 8 (13.79%) Human-in-the-Loop
11 8 (13.79%) Machine Learning
11 8 (13.79%) Use Case
11 8 (13.79%) Workflow
12 7 (12.07%) TDD
13 6 (10.34%) SOLID
14 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
14 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (8.62%) OO
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) Python
2 17 (29.31%) C#
3 10 (17.24%) SQL
4 5 (8.62%) Java
4 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.17%) C
6 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) Bash
7 1 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) Packer
4 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (1.72%) mParticle
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle