Azure Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 453 685 773
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 18.50% 17.77% 17.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.34% 46.19% 38.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 437 610
10th Percentile £400 £400 £410
25th Percentile £463 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +8.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £775 £816 £750
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £54.25 £30.55
25th Percentile £22.50 £58.75 £46.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £67.50 £77.59
Median % change year-on-year -65.93% -13.01% +167.56%
75th Percentile £23.50 £76.25 £112.02
90th Percentile - £80.75 £130.31
London median hourly rate £23.00 £34.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% -38.18% -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 957 1,483 1,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.08% 38.47% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 1,018 1,594
10th Percentile £350 £313 £389
25th Percentile £430 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £680
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.48 -
25th Percentile £18.93 £27.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £52.60 - £47.78
London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region 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
City of London 0 418 £551 -4.13% 136
West End of London -7 5 £535 -10.83% 6
Camden +2 3 £650 +100.00% 6
City of Westminster -8 1 £550 +10.00% 3
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 36 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (7.06%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.65%) Confluence
4 9 (1.99%) Apache
4 9 (1.99%) IIS
5 7 (1.55%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.32%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (1.10%) Site Server
8 3 (0.66%) CMS
9 2 (0.44%) JBoss
9 2 (0.44%) Luigi
9 2 (0.44%) nginx
9 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Tornado
10 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.77%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.44%) Primavera
3 2 (0.44%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 109 (24.06%) Azure DevOps
2 100 (22.08%) AWS
3 74 (16.34%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (14.35%) Power Platform
5 59 (13.02%) Entra ID
6 35 (7.73%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (7.51%) GCP
8 29 (6.40%) Power Automate
9 28 (6.18%) GitHub
10 27 (5.96%) PowerApps
11 26 (5.74%) Serverless
12 23 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 21 (4.64%) Azure Functions
14 19 (4.19%) IaaS
15 16 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 14 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (3.09%) Mimecast
18 13 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (2.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.28%) Firewall
2 23 (5.08%) DNS
3 10 (2.21%) Network Security
4 9 (1.99%) DHCP
5 7 (1.55%) VPN
6 6 (1.32%) Internet
6 6 (1.32%) LAN
6 6 (1.32%) WAN
7 5 (1.10%) MPLS
8 4 (0.88%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.88%) Wireless
9 3 (0.66%) SAN
9 3 (0.66%) SSL
9 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.44%) NAS
10 2 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.44%) VLAN
10 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.58%) SQL Server
2 43 (9.49%) Power BI
3 27 (5.96%) Data Lake
3 27 (5.96%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.21%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.99%) MySQL
9 7 (1.55%) Big Data
9 7 (1.55%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.10%) Data Mart
10 5 (1.10%) GIS
10 5 (1.10%) Metadata
11 4 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.88%) Power Query
11 4 (0.88%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (6.18%) Git
2 14 (3.09%) JIRA
3 13 (2.87%) GitLab
4 11 (2.43%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.99%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.99%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.55%) Selenium
7 6 (1.32%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.32%) JMeter
8 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.88%) Mercurial
9 4 (0.88%) Postman
10 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.44%) Deequ
11 2 (0.44%) Subversion
11 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.44%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
General
1 125 (27.59%) Finance
2 110 (24.28%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.61%) Banking
5 29 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.31%) Retail
8 14 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.65%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.43%) Legal
11 8 (1.77%) General Ledger
11 8 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.77%) Marketing
12 6 (1.32%) French Language
12 6 (1.32%) Front Office
13 5 (1.10%) Back Office
13 5 (1.10%) Local Government
14 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.66%) Law
14 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (21.41%) Developer
2 71 (15.67%) Architect
3 54 (11.92%) Senior
4 32 (7.06%) Consultant
5 30 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (6.40%) Analyst
6 29 (6.40%) Lead
7 26 (5.74%) Senior Developer
8 25 (5.52%) Full Stack Developer
9 21 (4.64%) Data Engineer
10 17 (3.75%) Azure Architect
11 16 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.09%) Azure Developer
13 14 (3.09%) Software Developer
14 12 (2.65%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.65%) Product Owner
14 12 (2.65%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.21%) .NET Developer
15 10 (2.21%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (15.01%) .NET
2 25 (5.52%) REST
3 24 (5.30%) .NET Core
3 24 (5.30%) XML
4 20 (4.42%) .NET Framework
4 20 (4.42%) React
5 19 (4.19%) ASP.NET
5 19 (4.19%) HTML
6 16 (3.53%) Web Services
7 15 (3.31%) JSON
7 15 (3.31%) Kafka
8 14 (3.09%) CSS
9 11 (2.43%) Node.js
9 11 (2.43%) PySpark
10 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (1.99%) ARM Templates
11 9 (1.99%) SAML
12 8 (1.77%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (1.77%) Blazor
12 8 (1.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.18%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.09%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.99%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.77%) PKI
7 7 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.88%) Derivative
10 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.88%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.45%) Windows
2 30 (6.62%) Linux
3 23 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.10%) Unix
6 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.44%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (34.22%) DevOps
2 151 (33.33%) Agile
3 73 (16.11%) CI/CD
4 55 (12.14%) Migration
5 54 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (10.38%) Scrum
8 41 (9.05%) Software Engineering
9 38 (8.39%) Analytics
10 32 (7.06%) Data Modelling
11 31 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (6.18%) Full Stack Development
14 27 (5.96%) Computer Science
14 27 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (5.52%) SDLC
16 24 (5.30%) Data Loss Prevention
16 24 (5.30%) Microservices
16 24 (5.30%) Project Management
17 23 (5.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (18.76%) SQL
2 83 (18.32%) Python
3 82 (18.10%) PowerShell
4 66 (14.57%) C#
5 27 (5.96%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.30%) Java
7 15 (3.31%) Bicep
8 13 (2.87%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.65%) C++
10 8 (1.77%) Go
11 6 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.10%) Korn
12 5 (1.10%) R
12 5 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.88%) Bash
13 4 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.88%) Rust
13 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.66%) Scala
15 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 51 (11.26%) Degree
2 21 (4.64%) Azure Certification
3 20 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.77%) CISSP
8 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.10%) CISM
9 5 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.66%) CCSK
10 3 (0.66%) CRISC
10 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.44%) CIMA
11 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.44%) SANS
12 1 (0.22%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.87%) QA
2 12 (2.65%) NIST
3 10 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.55%) SLA
6 5 (1.10%) GDPR
7 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.88%) NCSC
7 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.88%) WCAG
8 3 (0.66%) ISO 31000
8 3 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.66%) PMO
9 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.44%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 76 (16.78%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.52%) Docker
3 15 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.66%) XenApp
7 1 (0.22%) Ceph
7 1 (0.22%) KVM
7 1 (0.22%) NFS
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 35 (7.73%) Terraform
3 33 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.65%) SCCM
5 9 (1.99%) PingFederate
6 8 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (1.77%) Ansible
7 6 (1.32%) Argo
8 5 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.10%) Puppet
8 5 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.88%) Grafana
9 4 (0.88%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.66%) Nagios
10 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.44%) Graylog
12 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.22%) Kibana
12 1 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 177 (39.07%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.73%) Oracle
3 28 (6.18%) Databricks
4 18 (3.97%) VMware
5 15 (3.31%) Citrix
6 12 (2.65%) Google
7 10 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.99%) Okta
9 8 (1.77%) Cisco
10 6 (1.32%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.32%) SAP
10 6 (1.32%) Splunk
11 5 (1.10%) ESRI
12 4 (0.88%) Freshdesk
12 4 (0.88%) IBM
12 4 (0.88%) Informatica
12 4 (0.88%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.88%) Ping Identity
12 4 (0.88%) Symantec
13 3 (0.66%) CyberArk