Azure App Service Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure App Service
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure App Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 480 514
Rank change year-on-year -51 +34 +178
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 22 38 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.070% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.36% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 22
10th Percentile £398 £530 £366
25th Percentile £419 £584 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £714
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -8.93% +18.96%
75th Percentile £531 £684 £749
90th Percentile £593 £699 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - -

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 12,050 10,503 12,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.12% 36.66% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,289 7,014 9,363
10th Percentile £305 £313 £277
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 137 244
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.90 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.67 £68.75 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £27.50 £26.37
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.29% +17.20%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure App Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure App Service job vacancy trend in England

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure App Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure App Service

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure App Service in England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure App Service in England

Azure App Service
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure App Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure App Service

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 23 December 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 -14 21 £500 -23.08% 12
Midlands -40 1 £450 -25.00% 15
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 5
Azure App Service
UK

Azure App Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) Azure Functions
3 13 (59.09%) Entra ID
3 13 (59.09%) GitHub
3 13 (59.09%) Serverless
4 12 (54.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 11 (50.00%) Azure AKS
5 11 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (40.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (40.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (36.36%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 7 (31.82%) PaaS
10 6 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (27.27%) Azure Event Grid
10 6 (27.27%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (27.27%) Azure Storage
10 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Network Security
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) JUnit
2 3 (13.64%) Mockito
3 2 (9.09%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Backend Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) .NET
2 7 (31.82%) .NET Core
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 6 (27.27%) Node.js
3 6 (27.27%) PyTorch
3 6 (27.27%) REST
3 6 (27.27%) TensorFlow
4 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
4 5 (22.73%) React
4 5 (22.73%) SOAP
5 4 (18.18%) RESTful
5 4 (18.18%) Web Services
6 3 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (13.64%) WireMock
7 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 2 (9.09%) LangChain
7 2 (9.09%) LangGraph
7 2 (9.09%) Spring
8 1 (4.55%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) AI Agents
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) Analytics
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) Microservices
4 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 9 (40.91%) AI
5 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (36.36%) Agile
6 8 (36.36%) Observability
7 7 (31.82%) RBAC
8 6 (27.27%) API Management
8 6 (27.27%) Data Science
8 6 (27.27%) Log Analytics
8 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
8 6 (27.27%) Task Automation
9 5 (22.73%) Compliance Management
9 5 (22.73%) Data Encryption
9 5 (22.73%) Deep Learning
9 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
9 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) C#
3 9 (40.91%) Python
4 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
5 6 (27.27%) Bicep
6 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
6 5 (22.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (18.18%) Java
8 2 (9.09%) Bash
9 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) OpenAI
3 7 (31.82%) Databricks