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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 448 692 776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 18.20% 17.67% 16.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.67% 46.07% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 446 614
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £775 £816 £748
London median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +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 £27.75 £34.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.38% -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 960 1,502 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.01% 38.35% 43.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 1,035 1,609
10th Percentile £350 £313 £400
25th Percentile £428 £455 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £769
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% -34.35%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £52.60 - £47.78
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.76% +1.43% +4.48%

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 19 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 19 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 0 413 £561 -2.39% 117
West End of London -7 6 £535 -10.83% 7
Camden +1 2 £850 +161.54% 6
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 (8.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (7.59%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.68%) Confluence
4 9 (2.01%) Apache
4 9 (2.01%) IIS
5 7 (1.56%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.34%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (1.12%) Site Server
8 3 (0.67%) CMS
9 2 (0.45%) JBoss
9 2 (0.45%) Luigi
9 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 2 (0.45%) 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 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.45%) Primavera
3 2 (0.45%) 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
1 107 (23.88%) Azure DevOps
2 100 (22.32%) AWS
3 77 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (13.84%) Power Platform
5 58 (12.95%) Entra ID
6 34 (7.59%) GCP
7 33 (7.37%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (6.70%) Power Automate
9 29 (6.47%) GitHub
10 27 (6.03%) PowerApps
11 25 (5.58%) Serverless
12 21 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
13 19 (4.24%) Azure Functions
14 18 (4.02%) IaaS
15 16 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 14 (3.13%) Mimecast
18 13 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (2.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.92%) Firewall
2 21 (4.69%) DNS
3 10 (2.23%) Network Security
4 9 (2.01%) DHCP
5 6 (1.34%) Internet
5 6 (1.34%) LAN
5 6 (1.34%) VPN
5 6 (1.34%) WAN
6 5 (1.12%) MPLS
7 4 (0.89%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.67%) SSL
8 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.45%) NAS
9 2 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.45%) VLAN
9 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 42 (9.38%) Power BI
3 27 (6.03%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.80%) Data Lake
5 23 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.23%) MySQL
9 9 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.56%) Big Data
10 7 (1.56%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.34%) Metadata
12 5 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.12%) Data Mart
12 5 (1.12%) GIS
12 5 (1.12%) Parquet
12 5 (1.12%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.89%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (6.03%) Git
2 13 (2.90%) GitLab
3 12 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.68%) JIRA
4 9 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.79%) SpecFlow
6 7 (1.56%) Selenium
7 6 (1.34%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.34%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.34%) JMeter
7 6 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.89%) Mercurial
8 4 (0.89%) Postman
9 3 (0.67%) Subversion
9 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.45%) AppScan
10 2 (0.45%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.45%) Deequ
10 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 120 (26.79%) Finance
2 107 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 35 (7.81%) Banking
5 28 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (3.35%) Retail
7 13 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.90%) Legal
8 12 (2.68%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.79%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.34%) French Language
10 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.34%) Marketing
11 5 (1.12%) Front Office
11 5 (1.12%) Local Government
12 4 (0.89%) Back Office
12 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (20.76%) Developer
2 71 (15.85%) Architect
3 50 (11.16%) Senior
4 31 (6.92%) Consultant
5 28 (6.25%) Lead
6 27 (6.03%) Analyst
6 27 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
8 22 (4.91%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 17 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.57%) Azure Architect
12 14 (3.13%) Azure Developer
12 14 (3.13%) Software Developer
13 12 (2.68%) Product Owner
13 12 (2.68%) Software Engineer
14 11 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.23%) Azure Data Engineer
15 10 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.62%) .NET
2 25 (5.58%) REST
3 22 (4.91%) .NET Core
4 21 (4.69%) XML
5 18 (4.02%) .NET Framework
5 18 (4.02%) React
6 17 (3.79%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.35%) HTML
7 15 (3.35%) JSON
7 15 (3.35%) Kafka
7 15 (3.35%) Web Services
8 11 (2.46%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (2.46%) Node.js
8 11 (2.46%) PySpark
9 10 (2.23%) CSS
10 9 (2.01%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.01%) RESTful
10 9 (2.01%) SAML
11 8 (1.79%) Blazor
12 7 (1.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.35%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.79%) PKI
8 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.34%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.89%) Contactless
11 4 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.89%) Derivative
11 4 (0.89%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.89%) Wiki
12 3 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 73 (16.29%) Windows
2 32 (7.14%) Linux
3 25 (5.58%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.12%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.12%) Unix
6 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.45%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.45%) VMS
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (34.38%) DevOps
2 147 (32.81%) Agile
3 67 (14.96%) CI/CD
4 55 (12.28%) Migration
5 52 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (9.15%) Scrum
8 40 (8.93%) Analytics
8 40 (8.93%) Software Engineering
9 32 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (6.92%) Data Modelling
11 30 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 28 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (5.80%) Full Stack Development
13 26 (5.80%) SDLC
14 25 (5.58%) Computer Science
15 24 (5.36%) Data Loss Prevention
16 23 (5.13%) ITIL
16 23 (5.13%) Microservices
16 23 (5.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (19.42%) SQL
2 84 (18.75%) Python
3 79 (17.63%) PowerShell
4 61 (13.62%) C#
5 24 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.69%) Java
7 13 (2.90%) Bicep
7 13 (2.90%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.68%) C++
9 8 (1.79%) Go
10 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.12%) Bash
11 5 (1.12%) Korn
11 5 (1.12%) R
12 4 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.89%) Rust
12 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.67%) Scala
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 48 (10.71%) Degree
2 19 (4.24%) Azure Certification
3 18 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.79%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.68%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.79%) CISSP
8 5 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.12%) CISM
8 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.67%) CCSK
9 3 (0.67%) CRISC
9 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.67%) SANS
10 2 (0.45%) CIMA
10 2 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.57%) QA
2 12 (2.68%) NIST
3 9 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.34%) SLA
6 5 (1.12%) GDPR
7 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.89%) NCSC
7 4 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.89%) WCAG
8 3 (0.67%) ISO 31000
8 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.67%) PMO
9 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.45%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 75 (16.74%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.80%) Docker
3 15 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.67%) XenApp
8 1 (0.22%) Ceph
8 1 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) NFS
8 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 35 (7.81%) Terraform
3 34 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.68%) SCCM
5 9 (2.01%) Ansible
5 9 (2.01%) PingFederate
6 8 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.34%) Argo
7 6 (1.34%) Puppet
8 5 (1.12%) Grafana
8 5 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.89%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.89%) Nagios
9 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.67%) Graylog
10 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.45%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.45%) Nessus
11 2 (0.45%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 172 (38.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.81%) Oracle
3 27 (6.03%) Databricks
4 19 (4.24%) VMware
5 15 (3.35%) Citrix
6 12 (2.68%) Google
7 9 (2.01%) Okta
7 9 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.79%) Cisco
9 7 (1.56%) Splunk
10 6 (1.34%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.34%) SAP
11 5 (1.12%) ESRI
12 4 (0.89%) Aruba
12 4 (0.89%) Freshdesk
12 4 (0.89%) IBM
12 4 (0.89%) Informatica
12 4 (0.89%) Ping Identity
12 4 (0.89%) Symantec
13 3 (0.67%) Palo Alto