Azure Blueprints Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 516 535
Rank change year-on-year -97 +19 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 14 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.030% 0.004% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.014% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £551 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.39%
75th Percentile £622 - £688
90th Percentile £630 - -
UK median daily rate £585 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +17.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Azure Blueprints falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,813 6,959 8,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.08% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,443 4,755 5,537
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 162 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.39% -14.77% -1.83%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Blueprints job vacancy trend in England

Azure Blueprints
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Blueprints

Azure Blueprints
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Blueprints in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Blueprints in England

Azure Blueprints
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 Blueprints within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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 - 9 £585 - 2
North West - 5 £630 - 1
North of England - 5 £630 - 1
Azure Blueprints
UK

Azure Blueprints
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:

Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Entra ID
3 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) GCP
4 5 (35.71%) Serverless
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (28.57%) AWS KMS
5 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
1 5 (35.71%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Product Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Enterprise Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.14%) Governance Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
4 4 (28.57%) CMDB
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) RBAC
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 8 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (57.14%) Key Management
3 8 (57.14%) Risk Management
3 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 8 (57.14%) SIEM
3 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (35.71%) Backlog Management
4 5 (35.71%) Backlog Refinement
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 5 (35.71%) FinOps
4 5 (35.71%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Bicep
2 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 5 (35.71%) CISSP
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
5 3 (21.43%) Degree
6 2 (14.29%) CISM
6 2 (14.29%) ISSAP
7 1 (7.14%) CISA
7 1 (7.14%) GCIH
7 1 (7.14%) GIAC
7 1 (7.14%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
1 2 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Google
3 4 (28.57%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (28.57%) Okta
3 4 (28.57%) Qualys
3 4 (28.57%) Rapid7
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Splunk
3 4 (28.57%) Tenable
4 3 (21.43%) TOWER Software