Azure Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 7 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 22.73% 8.77% 4.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.82% 21.74% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £475 £428 £303
25th Percentile £494 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £456
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +26.03% -45.52%
75th Percentile £650 - £555
90th Percentile - - £604
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £563
% change year-on-year - +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.99 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -22.90% - -

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 17 23 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 38.64% 40.35% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 11
10th Percentile £417 £420 £425
25th Percentile £466 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +41.18%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £775
90th Percentile £788 - £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.59 - -
Median hourly rate £18.94 - -
75th Percentile £19.34 - -
90th Percentile £19.44 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Azure job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 15 November 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
Westminster - 6 £580 - 4
Paddington -2 4 - -
Azure
Central London

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Mattermost
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DKIM
2 1 (10.00%) DMARC
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) PSTN
2 1 (10.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Japanese Language
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) DBA
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Loki
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (20.00%) SABSA
4 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) CASP
2 2 (20.00%) CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (20.00%) CSSLP
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) GIAC
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) SELinux
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Apple
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware