Azure Developer Contracts

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the UK is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 421 413
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -38
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 170 318 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 258 427
10th Percentile £411 £429 £412
25th Percentile £500 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +6.05% +13.16%
75th Percentile £651 £669 £625
90th Percentile £688 £732 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £564 £488
% change year-on-year +2.88% +15.64% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +14 148 £580 +0.87% 35
Work from Home +58 88 £550 -2.22% 36
London +38 88 £590 -0.84% 12
UK excluding London -2 54 £580 +2.88% 25
South East +13 30 £625 +4.17% 8
North of England +6 11 £475 -9.52% 7
West Midlands +27 9 £580 +28.89% 4
Midlands +20 9 £580 +28.89% 6
North West +7 6 £475 -9.52% 6
Yorkshire +2 4 £350 -33.33% 1
South West +5 2 £675 +22.73% 2
Scotland +27 1 £375 -37.50%
North East +20 1 - -
East of England +15 1 £600 - 1

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 100 (58.82%) DevOps
3 92 (54.12%) C#
4 85 (50.00%) .NET
5 76 (44.71%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (40.00%) Agile
7 63 (37.06%) CI/CD
8 55 (32.35%) Microsoft
9 53 (31.18%) SQL Server
10 50 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
11 44 (25.88%) Git
12 39 (22.94%) SQL
12 39 (22.94%) Finance
13 37 (21.76%) Serverless
14 36 (21.18%) Azure Functions
14 36 (21.18%) React
15 35 (20.59%) Active Directory
16 34 (20.00%) PowerShell
17 33 (19.41%) Entra ID
17 33 (19.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 33 (19.41%) Product Ownership
18 32 (18.82%) Microservices
19 31 (18.24%) Scrum
20 30 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
21 29 (17.06%) .NET Framework
22 28 (16.47%) Python
22 28 (16.47%) Azure Monitor
23 27 (15.88%) Azure Data Factory
24 25 (14.71%) XML
25 23 (13.53%) JavaScript

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (5.29%) CMS
2 5 (2.94%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.94%) Kentico
3 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.59%) SAS
4 1 (0.59%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Endur
2 2 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (44.71%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (21.76%) Serverless
4 36 (21.18%) Azure Functions
5 33 (19.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 33 (19.41%) Entra ID
6 30 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (16.47%) Azure Monitor
8 27 (15.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (13.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 20 (11.76%) Azure API Management
11 15 (8.82%) Power Platform
12 9 (5.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (4.12%) PaaS
14 6 (3.53%) Azure App Service
14 6 (3.53%) Azure Event Grid
15 5 (2.94%) Azure AKS
15 5 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
16 4 (2.35%) Azure Storage
16 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) FTP
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (31.18%) SQL Server
2 22 (12.94%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.88%) Power BI
5 9 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.12%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.18%) Big Data
10 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.18%) Redis
10 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (25.88%) Git
2 9 (5.29%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.94%) Selenium
3 5 (2.94%) SpecFlow
3 5 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.76%) NUnit
5 2 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.18%) Postman
5 2 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.59%) git-flow
6 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.59%) Moq
6 1 (0.59%) MSTest
6 1 (0.59%) Pylint
6 1 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (22.94%) Finance
2 23 (13.53%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.24%) Marketing
6 7 (4.12%) Electronics
6 7 (4.12%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.53%) Law
8 5 (2.94%) Banking
8 5 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.35%) Back Office
9 4 (2.35%) Front Office
10 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.76%) Music Industry
11 2 (1.18%) Danish Language
12 1 (0.59%) Advertising
12 1 (0.59%) International Banking
12 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (50.00%) .NET
2 36 (21.18%) React
3 29 (17.06%) .NET Framework
4 25 (14.71%) XML
5 23 (13.53%) .NET Core
6 19 (11.18%) HTML
7 18 (10.59%) AngularJS
8 16 (9.41%) CSS
9 11 (6.47%) GraphQL
9 11 (6.47%) REST
9 11 (6.47%) YAML
10 9 (5.29%) ARM Templates
10 9 (5.29%) Node.js
11 7 (4.12%) ASP.NET
11 7 (4.12%) Entity Framework
11 7 (4.12%) Swagger
12 6 (3.53%) Express.js
12 6 (3.53%) koa
12 6 (3.53%) MERN Stack
12 6 (3.53%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.41%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.18%) Contactless
4 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.18%) Tandem
5 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.59%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.59%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.94%) Linux
2 4 (2.35%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (58.82%) DevOps
2 68 (40.00%) Agile
3 63 (37.06%) CI/CD
4 50 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
5 32 (18.82%) Microservices
6 31 (18.24%) Scrum
7 23 (13.53%) SDLC
8 22 (12.94%) API Management
9 21 (12.35%) B2C
10 19 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (11.18%) TDD
10 19 (11.18%) Test Automation
10 19 (11.18%) Unit Testing
11 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (9.41%) Clean Code
12 16 (9.41%) Product Backlog
13 14 (8.24%) SOLID
14 13 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (7.65%) OO
15 12 (7.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (54.12%) C#
2 39 (22.94%) SQL
3 34 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 28 (16.47%) Python
5 23 (13.53%) JavaScript
6 17 (10.00%) Java
7 13 (7.65%) Bicep
7 13 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.35%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.18%) Bash
9 2 (1.18%) C
9 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.76%) Degree
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.35%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.35%) WCAG
2 3 (1.76%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.12%) Docker
3 5 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (10.00%) Terraform
2 10 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.18%) Ansible
3 2 (1.18%) Packer
4 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.12%) SAP
3 3 (1.76%) Databricks
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle
4 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.59%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.59%) mParticle
4 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.59%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.59%) Salesforce