Azure Contracts in West London

Microsoft Azure
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 39 51 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 11.05% 8.99% 11.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.20% 20.99% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 43 56
10th Percentile £402 £376 £240
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £468
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +38.96% -16.84%
75th Percentile £519 £700 £538
90th Percentile £563 £838 £595
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £22.45 - -
25th Percentile £22.68 £62.00 £44.00
Median hourly rate £23.05 £64.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.98% +42.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £23.43 £66.00 £46.00
90th Percentile £23.65 - -
London median hourly rate £23.00 £34.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% -38.18% -3.51%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 125 243 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 35.41% 42.86% 35.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 189 170
10th Percentile £243 £300 £190
25th Percentile £335 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +11.64% +0.50%
75th Percentile £549 £650 £623
90th Percentile £608 £700 £644
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 3
10th Percentile £22.60 £61.25 £13.55
25th Percentile £23.05 £64.50 £15.86
Median hourly rate £23.80 £75.00 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year -68.27% +253.36% -32.62%
75th Percentile £45.40 £80.00 £34.36
90th Percentile £58.36 £90.00 £41.34
London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +1.27% +19.07%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in West London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in West London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in West London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in West London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in West London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Hillingdon +16 13 £475 -32.14% 6
Hounslow +3 10 £475 -10.59% 9
Wembley +2 3 £400 - 1
Hammersmith +4 2 £450 -18.18% 3
Richmond upon Thames -2 2 £475 +5.56% 3
Harrow - 2 £441 - 12
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (7.69%) SaaS
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.56%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.56%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.56%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 3 (7.69%) HTTP
2 3 (7.69%) HTTPS
2 3 (7.69%) IPsec
3 1 (2.56%) DKIM
3 1 (2.56%) DMARC
3 1 (2.56%) Extranet
3 1 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) LAN
3 1 (2.56%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (2.56%) NAS
3 1 (2.56%) SAN
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.56%) Wireless
3 1 (2.56%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Couchbase
2 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) Tableau
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) Looker
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) Maven
3 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Front Office
4 3 (7.69%) Aviation
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Development Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Software Development Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Software Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) IT Support
4 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (5.13%) Platform Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Kafka
2 4 (10.26%) Drools
2 4 (10.26%) JSON
2 4 (10.26%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) Swagger
3 3 (7.69%) .NET
3 3 (7.69%) SAML
4 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.13%) CSS
4 2 (5.13%) React
4 2 (5.13%) Redux
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (2.56%) Middleware
5 1 (2.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.26%) PKI
4 3 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (5.13%) New Media
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.56%) IoT
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) Life Science
6 1 (2.56%) Robotics
6 1 (2.56%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
2 9 (23.08%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) Migration
3 8 (20.51%) Feasibility Study
3 8 (20.51%) Validation
4 7 (17.95%) Product Management
5 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 6 (15.38%) Scrum
6 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.26%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 4 (10.26%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (10.26%) E-Commerce
7 4 (10.26%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (7.69%) Server Management
8 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
8 3 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) SQL
2 7 (17.95%) C++
2 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.82%) Groovy
3 5 (12.82%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) CCIE
3 3 (7.69%) CCNP
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) ISEB
4 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) GxP
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.38%) Docker
3 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.56%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Podman
2 3 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.69%) SCCM
2 3 (7.69%) SCOM
2 3 (7.69%) SCVMM
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Oracle
3 6 (15.38%) Splunk
4 4 (10.26%) Cisco
4 4 (10.26%) SolarWinds
5 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.69%) New Relic
5 3 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.69%) VMware
6 1 (2.56%) Brocade
6 1 (2.56%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (2.56%) Equitrac
6 1 (2.56%) F5
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) HP
6 1 (2.56%) Mitel
6 1 (2.56%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.56%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow