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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 424 649 689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 19.45% 18.17% 16.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.36% 47.79% 37.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 400 537
10th Percentile £400 £413 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £726 £675
90th Percentile £775 £820 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
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 £41.50
% change year-on-year -65.93% +62.65% +43.10%

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 859 1,358 1,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 38.03% 43.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 909 1,450
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £434 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £666 £700 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -23.48%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
% change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% -12.14%

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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 12 May 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 36 (8.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.60%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.83%) Confluence
4 9 (2.12%) IIS
5 7 (1.65%) Apache
6 6 (1.42%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.94%) Site Server
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) JBoss
8 2 (0.47%) Luigi
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
8 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
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 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.89%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.47%) Primavera
3 2 (0.47%) 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
1 107 (25.24%) Azure DevOps
2 87 (20.52%) AWS
3 66 (15.57%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (15.09%) Power Platform
5 52 (12.26%) Entra ID
6 36 (8.49%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (7.31%) GCP
8 28 (6.60%) Power Automate
8 28 (6.60%) PowerApps
9 27 (6.37%) GitHub
9 27 (6.37%) Serverless
10 23 (5.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 21 (4.95%) Azure Functions
12 17 (4.01%) IaaS
13 16 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (3.30%) Mimecast
15 13 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.55%) Firewall
2 16 (3.77%) DNS
3 10 (2.36%) Network Security
4 7 (1.65%) Internet
4 7 (1.65%) VPN
5 6 (1.42%) MPLS
6 4 (0.94%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.94%) WAN
7 3 (0.71%) DHCP
7 3 (0.71%) SAN
7 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.71%) Wireless
8 2 (0.47%) CTI
8 2 (0.47%) HTTP
8 2 (0.47%) LAN
8 2 (0.47%) NAS
8 2 (0.47%) SSL
8 2 (0.47%) VoIP
8 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (13.68%) SQL Server
2 42 (9.91%) Power BI
3 27 (6.37%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.42%) Data Lake
5 19 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.36%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.36%) MySQL
8 7 (1.65%) Big Data
9 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.18%) Redis
9 5 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.94%) Delta Lake
10 4 (0.94%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.94%) GIS
10 4 (0.94%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.71%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.71%) Metadata
11 3 (0.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (6.13%) Git
2 14 (3.30%) GitLab
3 12 (2.83%) JIRA
4 11 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.36%) Visual Studio
6 9 (2.12%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.89%) Selenium
8 7 (1.65%) JMeter
9 6 (1.42%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.18%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.94%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.94%) Postman
11 4 (0.94%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.71%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.47%) Subversion
14 1 (0.24%) ERwin
14 1 (0.24%) Mockito
14 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 114 (26.89%) Finance
2 106 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.67%) Public Sector
4 40 (9.43%) Banking
5 27 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.77%) Retail
8 15 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.83%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.12%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.12%) Legal
11 8 (1.89%) General Ledger
11 8 (1.89%) Marketing
12 7 (1.65%) Front Office
13 6 (1.42%) Back Office
13 6 (1.42%) French Language
14 5 (1.18%) Local Government
14 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (22.88%) Developer
2 70 (16.51%) Architect
3 48 (11.32%) Senior
4 31 (7.31%) Consultant
5 29 (6.84%) Analyst
5 29 (6.84%) Full Stack Developer
6 26 (6.13%) Lead
7 24 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 16 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.54%) Azure Architect
10 15 (3.54%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.83%) Product Owner
13 12 (2.83%) Software Developer
13 12 (2.83%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.36%) Business Analyst
15 9 (2.12%) .NET Developer
15 9 (2.12%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.04%) .NET
2 23 (5.42%) REST
3 21 (4.95%) .NET Core
3 21 (4.95%) XML
4 20 (4.72%) .NET Framework
4 20 (4.72%) HTML
4 20 (4.72%) React
5 18 (4.25%) ASP.NET
5 18 (4.25%) Web Services
6 15 (3.54%) CSS
6 15 (3.54%) Kafka
7 11 (2.59%) JSON
7 11 (2.59%) Node.js
8 10 (2.36%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (2.12%) Blazor
9 9 (2.12%) Svelte
10 8 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (1.89%) RESTful
10 8 (1.89%) SAML
11 7 (1.65%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.83%) Cloud Native
2 12 (2.83%) Management Information System
2 12 (2.83%) Public Cloud
3 9 (2.12%) Data Centre
4 8 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 8 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (1.89%) PKI
5 7 (1.65%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.94%) Derivative
8 4 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.94%) Wiki
9 3 (0.71%) IoT
9 3 (0.71%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 60 (14.15%) Windows
2 29 (6.84%) Linux
3 19 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.18%) Unix
6 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (34.91%) DevOps
2 141 (33.25%) Agile
3 66 (15.57%) CI/CD
4 54 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (12.50%) Migration
6 46 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (10.38%) Scrum
8 39 (9.20%) Software Engineering
9 33 (7.78%) Analytics
9 33 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (7.55%) Full Stack Development
11 29 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (6.37%) Computer Science
13 26 (6.13%) Data Modelling
14 25 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (5.66%) Data Loss Prevention
16 23 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (5.42%) Roadmaps
16 23 (5.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 83 (19.58%) SQL
2 75 (17.69%) Python
3 73 (17.22%) PowerShell
4 66 (15.57%) C#
5 28 (6.60%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.19%) Java
7 15 (3.54%) Bicep
8 12 (2.83%) C++
9 9 (2.12%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.89%) Go
11 6 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.18%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.94%) Bash
13 4 (0.94%) Korn
13 4 (0.94%) R
13 4 (0.94%) Rust
13 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.71%) Scala
15 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 49 (11.56%) Degree
2 20 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.01%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.83%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.12%) CISSP
6 9 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.18%) CISM
9 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.71%) CCSK
11 3 (0.71%) CRISC
12 2 (0.47%) CIMA
12 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.07%) NIST
1 13 (3.07%) QA
2 9 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.65%) SLA
5 5 (1.18%) GDPR
6 4 (0.94%) NCSC
6 4 (0.94%) WCAG
7 3 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.71%) ISO 31000
7 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.71%) PMO
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 64 (15.09%) Active Directory
2 32 (7.55%) Docker
3 12 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.47%) XenApp
7 1 (0.24%) Ceph
7 1 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.24%) NFS
7 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.02%) Terraform
3 32 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.12%) Ansible
4 9 (2.12%) PingFederate
4 9 (2.12%) SCCM
5 6 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.42%) Argo
5 6 (1.42%) Puppet
6 5 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.94%) Grafana
7 4 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.71%) Nagios
8 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.47%) Graylog
10 1 (0.24%) Kibana
10 1 (0.24%) logstash
10 1 (0.24%) Mesos
Vendors
1 161 (37.97%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.78%) Oracle
3 28 (6.60%) Databricks
4 17 (4.01%) VMware
5 16 (3.77%) Citrix
6 12 (2.83%) Google
7 9 (2.12%) Cisco
7 9 (2.12%) Okta
8 8 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.42%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.42%) SAP
9 6 (1.42%) Splunk
10 4 (0.94%) ESRI
10 4 (0.94%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.94%) IBM
10 4 (0.94%) Informatica
10 4 (0.94%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.94%) Symantec
11 3 (0.71%) Genesys
11 3 (0.71%) Guidewire