Azure Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 418 653 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 18.98% 17.95% 16.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.77% 47.22% 38.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 409 539
10th Percentile £400 £413 £445
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £650
90th Percentile £775 £825 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £54.25 £30.55
25th Percentile - £58.75 £46.71
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £77.59
Median % change year-on-year - -13.01% +167.56%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £112.02
90th Percentile - £80.75 £130.31
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £67.50 £77.59
% change year-on-year -65.93% -13.01% +167.56%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,383 1,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.92% 38.03% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 935 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £314 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £29.23 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +383.78% -7.43%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £57.30 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 35 (8.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.87%) Confluence
4 9 (2.15%) IIS
5 7 (1.67%) Apache
6 6 (1.44%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.20%) Site Server
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) JBoss
8 2 (0.48%) Luigi
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.24%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Tornado
9 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.91%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.48%) Primavera
3 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.24%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 104 (24.88%) Azure DevOps
2 88 (21.05%) AWS
3 67 (16.03%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (15.31%) Power Platform
5 52 (12.44%) Entra ID
6 35 (8.37%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (7.42%) GCP
8 28 (6.70%) Power Automate
9 27 (6.46%) GitHub
10 26 (6.22%) PowerApps
10 26 (6.22%) Serverless
11 21 (5.02%) Azure Functions
11 21 (5.02%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.31%) IaaS
13 14 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.35%) Mimecast
14 13 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.42%) Firewall
2 19 (4.55%) DNS
3 10 (2.39%) Network Security
4 7 (1.67%) VPN
5 6 (1.44%) Internet
6 5 (1.20%) DHCP
6 5 (1.20%) MPLS
6 5 (1.20%) WAN
7 4 (0.96%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.72%) LAN
8 3 (0.72%) SAN
8 3 (0.72%) SSL
8 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.72%) Wireless
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.48%) NAS
9 2 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.48%) VLAN
9 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 43 (10.29%) Power BI
3 24 (5.74%) Data Lake
3 24 (5.74%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.15%) MySQL
9 7 (1.67%) Big Data
10 6 (1.44%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.20%) Data Mart
11 5 (1.20%) GIS
11 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.96%) Metadata
12 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.96%) Redis
13 3 (0.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (6.22%) Git
2 14 (3.35%) JIRA
3 13 (3.11%) GitLab
4 11 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.15%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.15%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.67%) Selenium
7 6 (1.44%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.44%) JMeter
8 5 (1.20%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.96%) Mercurial
9 4 (0.96%) Postman
10 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.48%) Subversion
11 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.24%) ERwin
12 1 (0.24%) Mockito
12 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 117 (27.99%) Finance
2 104 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 40 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 38 (9.09%) Banking
5 28 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.59%) Retail
8 14 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.39%) Legal
11 8 (1.91%) General Ledger
11 8 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.91%) Marketing
12 6 (1.44%) French Language
12 6 (1.44%) Front Office
13 5 (1.20%) Local Government
14 3 (0.72%) Back Office
14 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.72%) Law
14 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (21.29%) Developer
2 65 (15.55%) Architect
3 47 (11.24%) Senior
4 32 (7.66%) Consultant
5 28 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
6 26 (6.22%) Analyst
6 26 (6.22%) Lead
7 24 (5.74%) Full Stack Developer
8 22 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 18 (4.31%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.59%) Azure Architect
11 14 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.87%) Software Developer
12 12 (2.87%) Software Engineer
13 11 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.63%) Product Owner
14 10 (2.39%) .NET Developer
15 9 (2.15%) Business Analyst
15 9 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.83%) .NET
2 23 (5.50%) REST
3 21 (5.02%) XML
4 20 (4.78%) .NET Core
5 19 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 19 (4.55%) React
6 18 (4.31%) ASP.NET
6 18 (4.31%) HTML
7 16 (3.83%) Web Services
8 14 (3.35%) Kafka
9 13 (3.11%) CSS
10 12 (2.87%) JSON
11 11 (2.63%) Node.js
12 10 (2.39%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (2.15%) PySpark
13 9 (2.15%) SAML
14 8 (1.91%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (1.91%) Blazor
14 8 (1.91%) RESTful
15 7 (1.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.74%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.35%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.11%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.91%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.91%) PKI
6 7 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.96%) Derivative
9 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.96%) Wiki
10 3 (0.72%) IoT
10 3 (0.72%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 63 (15.07%) Windows
2 30 (7.18%) Linux
3 20 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.15%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.20%) Unix
6 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.48%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (34.69%) DevOps
2 136 (32.54%) Agile
3 65 (15.55%) CI/CD
4 54 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (12.20%) Migration
6 47 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (10.05%) Scrum
8 39 (9.33%) Software Engineering
9 32 (7.66%) Analytics
10 30 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
12 28 (6.70%) Data Modelling
13 27 (6.46%) Computer Science
13 27 (6.46%) Full Stack Development
14 24 (5.74%) Data Loss Prevention
14 24 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (5.50%) Microservices
15 23 (5.50%) Project Management
15 23 (5.50%) Roadmaps
15 23 (5.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (18.90%) Python
1 79 (18.90%) SQL
2 76 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 61 (14.59%) C#
4 26 (6.22%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.26%) Java
6 12 (2.87%) C++
7 11 (2.63%) Bicep
8 10 (2.39%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.91%) Go
10 6 (1.44%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.20%) Korn
11 5 (1.20%) R
12 4 (0.96%) Bash
12 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.96%) Rust
12 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.48%) Scala
14 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 48 (11.48%) Degree
2 20 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.83%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.91%) CISSP
8 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.20%) CISM
9 5 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.72%) CCSK
10 3 (0.72%) CRISC
10 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.48%) CIMA
11 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.48%) SANS
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.11%) QA
2 12 (2.87%) NIST
3 8 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.44%) SLA
5 4 (0.96%) NCSC
5 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.72%) GDPR
6 3 (0.72%) ISO 31000
6 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.72%) PMO
6 3 (0.72%) WCAG
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 65 (15.55%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.98%) Docker
3 12 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.72%) XenApp
6 1 (0.24%) Ceph
6 1 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.24%) NFS
6 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (9.81%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (7.89%) Terraform
3 12 (2.87%) SCCM
4 9 (2.15%) PingFederate
5 8 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.91%) Ansible
6 6 (1.44%) Argo
7 5 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.20%) Puppet
7 5 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.96%) Grafana
8 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.72%) Nagios
9 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.48%) Graylog
11 1 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.24%) Kibana
11 1 (0.24%) Mesos
Vendors
1 163 (39.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.66%) Oracle
3 25 (5.98%) Databricks
4 15 (3.59%) Citrix
5 14 (3.35%) VMware
6 10 (2.39%) Google
6 10 (2.39%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.15%) Okta
8 7 (1.67%) Cisco
9 6 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.44%) Splunk
10 5 (1.20%) ESRI
10 5 (1.20%) SAP
11 4 (0.96%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.96%) IBM
11 4 (0.96%) Informatica
11 4 (0.96%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.96%) Symantec
12 3 (0.72%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.72%) Red Hat