Azure Contracts in the City of Westminster

Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 5 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 11.36% 4.55% 22.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.32% 10.00% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile - - £368
25th Percentile £575 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% +10.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £641 - £638
90th Percentile £662 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.35% -

All Cloud Skills
City of Westminster

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19 20 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 43.18% 45.45% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 12
10th Percentile £428 £355 £231
25th Percentile £514 £456 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £618 £725 £638
90th Percentile £655 £823 £649
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the City of Westminster

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the City of Westminster

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Paddington -1 4 £575 +4.55% 1
Mayfair - 1 £650 -
Azure
Central London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Finance Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Product Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
1 1 (20.00%) SPML
1 1 (20.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Product Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) SAP