Azure Contracts in East London

Microsoft Azure
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure 20 45 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 16.53% 21.23% 16.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.22% 62.50% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 30
10th Percentile £393 £380 £308
25th Percentile £520 £419 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +4.88% -10.09%
75th Percentile - £585 £569
90th Percentile £675 £600 £596
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
London median hourly rate £35.99 £23.80 £63.00
% change year-on-year +51.22% -62.22% +1.88%

All Cloud Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 51 72 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 42.15% 33.96% 40.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 63 75
10th Percentile £285 £329 £188
25th Percentile £463 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% -6.19%
75th Percentile £585 £543 £663
90th Percentile £675 £593 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £25.45 - -
25th Percentile £26.63 - -
Median hourly rate £28.60 - -
75th Percentile £45.55 - -
90th Percentile £55.72 - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.97 £58.75
% change year-on-year +7.79% -54.09% +38.24%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in East London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in East London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in East London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in East London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in East London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in East London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Tower Hamlets +2 16 £585 +8.33% 6
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.00%) Mimecast
3 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 2 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) VLAN
3 3 (15.00%) DHCP
3 3 (15.00%) DNS
3 3 (15.00%) Network Security
3 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 2 (10.00%) HTTP
5 1 (5.00%) BGP
5 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
5 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (5.00%) Junos
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) MPLS
5 1 (5.00%) SNMP
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (10.00%) Ant
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) JMeter
2 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Toad
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.00%) eggPlant
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Gradle
3 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) NeoLoad
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) EDI
3 2 (10.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 2 (10.00%) Sass
3 2 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) gRPC
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (5.00%) Jinja
4 1 (5.00%) JPA
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) AIX
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
1 8 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Data Science
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (15.00%) Change Control
4 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Threat Management
4 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (15.00%) C#
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (10.00%) Korn
6 2 (10.00%) Perl
6 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CCIE
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) SEPA
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (25.00%) SCCM
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) logstash
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Perforce
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Cognizant
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper
4 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm
4 1 (5.00%) McAfee
4 1 (5.00%) Mellanox
4 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) SkyKick
4 1 (5.00%) VMware