Azure App Service Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure App Service
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure App Service skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure App Service 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 463 507 575
Rank change year-on-year +44 +68 +142
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 22 35 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.094% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 56
10th Percentile £415 £333 £450
25th Percentile £472 £520 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £611 £650
90th Percentile £650 £665 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £594 £600
% change year-on-year +1.05% -1.04% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £71.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.50

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure App Service 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure App Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure App Service in England

Azure App Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure App Service in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure App Service in England

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure App Service in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure App Service in England

Azure App Service
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure App Service within the England 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
London +33 16 £625 +4.17% 21
South West +47 2 £450 +28.57% 2
North of England +20 2 £450 -
North West +18 2 £450 -
South East - 2 £400 - 9
Midlands +14 1 £600 -1.15%
West Midlands +7 1 £600 -1.15%
Azure App Service
UK

Azure App Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) Azure Storage
3 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (36.36%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
7 4 (18.18%) GitHub
8 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
8 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (13.64%) IaaS
9 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (9.09%) Serverless
10 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (4.55%) PaaS
10 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Parquet
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Architect
1 12 (54.55%) Azure Architect
2 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (22.73%) .NET Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Angular Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) React Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) ARM Templates
2 7 (31.82%) .NET
3 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.64%) React
4 3 (13.64%) RESTful
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.09%) OAuth
5 2 (9.09%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.55%) JSON
6 1 (4.55%) JWT
6 1 (4.55%) OpenID
6 1 (4.55%) React Native
6 1 (4.55%) Redux
6 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Derivative
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) VMS
2 1 (4.55%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (45.45%) RBAC
4 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) Cloud Security
4 9 (40.91%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.64%) Analytics
8 2 (9.09%) Agile
8 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 2 (9.09%) Data Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) Data Management
8 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (9.09%) High Availability
8 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
8 2 (9.09%) Microservices
8 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Bicep
2 7 (31.82%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Docker
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks