Azure Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,012 5,194 7,791
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.94% 16.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.19% 42.73% 44.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,778 3,809 5,746
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £423 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £523 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -0.71% -4.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 48 68
10th Percentile £25.40 £17.80 £18.63
25th Percentile £28.20 £23.80 £26.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.34 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -29.84% +26.03%
75th Percentile £76.72 £61.60 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £46.18 £60.63
% change year-on-year +25.60% -23.83% +12.27%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,983 12,155 17,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.64% 32.61% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,731 8,674 12,778
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 329 301
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.06 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.59% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in England

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +1 2,381 £550 - 6,203
South East +4 483 £500 -9.09% 1,963
North of England -4 406 £475 -5.00% 2,262
Midlands 0 289 £492 -10.55% 1,289
North West -5 228 £500 - 1,253
South West -2 216 £500 -2.91% 932
West Midlands +1 200 £525 -4.55% 780
Yorkshire -2 152 £475 -5.00% 814
East of England +24 97 £550 +22.22% 873
East Midlands -1 82 £463 -5.13% 502
North East -8 26 £500 -2.44% 202
Azure
UK

Azure
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
1 220 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 144 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 116 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 97 (2.42%) Confluence
5 60 (1.50%) Apache
6 55 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (0.55%) CMS
8 12 (0.30%) SAS
9 11 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 11 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 9 (0.22%) IIS
11 8 (0.20%) Mule
11 8 (0.20%) nginx
12 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
13 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.100%) JBoss
14 4 (0.100%) Mule ESB
14 4 (0.100%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 74 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.22%) Trello
8 3 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.025%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 69 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.57%) Endur
2 23 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.17%) SAP PM
5 7 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 6 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.12%) Avolution ABACUS
7 5 (0.12%) Kondor
7 5 (0.12%) Maximo
7 5 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.100%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.100%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.100%) Shopify
9 3 (0.075%) Infor CloudSuite
9 3 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,334 (33.25%) AWS
2 727 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
3 716 (17.85%) GCP
4 487 (12.14%) Entra ID
5 478 (11.91%) Microsoft 365
6 466 (11.62%) Power Platform
7 263 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 234 (5.83%) GitHub
9 211 (5.26%) SaaS
10 181 (4.51%) Serverless
11 161 (4.01%) PaaS
12 156 (3.89%) IaaS
13 152 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
14 145 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 135 (3.36%) Azure AKS
16 130 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
17 127 (3.17%) PowerApps
17 127 (3.17%) Snowflake
18 122 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
19 121 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 348 (8.67%) Firewall
2 200 (4.99%) VPN
3 198 (4.94%) DNS
4 148 (3.69%) Network Security
5 107 (2.67%) WAN
6 100 (2.49%) DHCP
7 74 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 73 (1.82%) LAN
9 53 (1.32%) HTTP
10 50 (1.25%) SD-WAN
11 46 (1.15%) SAN
12 42 (1.05%) VLAN
13 36 (0.90%) MPLS
13 36 (0.90%) SSL
14 32 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
14 32 (0.80%) Wireless
15 26 (0.65%) BGP
16 25 (0.62%) SMTP
17 24 (0.60%) Internet
18 23 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (8.08%) Power BI
2 295 (7.35%) SQL Server
3 194 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
4 188 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 140 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 118 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 104 (2.59%) Big Data
9 76 (1.89%) Relational Database
10 65 (1.62%) MongoDB
11 64 (1.60%) Tableau
12 62 (1.55%) Metadata
13 57 (1.42%) Delta Lake
14 53 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 46 (1.15%) Hadoop
16 44 (1.10%) Redis
17 43 (1.07%) Oracle Database
18 39 (0.97%) BigQuery
19 37 (0.92%) MySQL
20 33 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 256 (6.38%) Git
2 249 (6.21%) JIRA
3 204 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 158 (3.94%) GitLab
5 65 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 60 (1.50%) Selenium
7 41 (1.02%) Postman
8 30 (0.75%) Maven
9 26 (0.65%) ERwin
9 26 (0.65%) JMeter
10 23 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 22 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.52%) JUnit
12 21 (0.52%) Visual Studio
13 20 (0.50%) SoapUI
14 19 (0.47%) Artifactory
14 19 (0.47%) Bitbucket
15 18 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 18 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 1,187 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 883 (22.01%) Finance
3 407 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 298 (7.43%) Banking
6 91 (2.27%) Retail
6 91 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 85 (2.12%) Investment Banking
7 85 (2.12%) Marketing
8 82 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (1.79%) Front Office
10 70 (1.74%) Legal
11 67 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 65 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 62 (1.55%) Law
14 51 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.12%) Local Government
16 44 (1.10%) Financial Institution
17 43 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 732 (18.25%) Architect
2 630 (15.70%) Developer
3 424 (10.57%) Senior
4 339 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
5 291 (7.25%) Analyst
6 260 (6.48%) Data Engineer
7 238 (5.93%) Lead
8 229 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 187 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 165 (4.11%) Consultant
11 147 (3.66%) Azure Architect
12 131 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 127 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 124 (3.09%) Support Engineer
15 121 (3.02%) Security Engineer
16 114 (2.84%) Data Architect
17 111 (2.77%) Senior Developer
18 110 (2.74%) Security Architect
19 103 (2.57%) Business Analyst
20 98 (2.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (8.82%) .NET
2 202 (5.03%) React
3 171 (4.26%) REST
4 148 (3.69%) Kafka
5 147 (3.66%) HTML
6 128 (3.19%) CSS
7 122 (3.04%) AngularJS
8 118 (2.94%) RESTful
9 93 (2.32%) ARM Templates
10 92 (2.29%) Web Services
11 91 (2.27%) OAuth
12 90 (2.24%) .NET Core
13 89 (2.22%) JSON
14 88 (2.19%) Node.js
15 86 (2.14%) PySpark
16 78 (1.94%) ADO
17 73 (1.82%) SOAP
17 73 (1.82%) XML
18 71 (1.77%) .NET Framework
19 66 (1.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 137 (3.41%) Cloud Native
2 114 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 112 (2.79%) Data Centre
4 110 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 108 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 82 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 75 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 73 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 71 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 61 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 56 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 54 (1.35%) PKI
14 49 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
15 47 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
16 46 (1.15%) Fixed Income
16 46 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 45 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
18 39 (0.97%) Data Structures
18 39 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 555 (13.83%) Windows
2 264 (6.58%) Linux
3 204 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 101 (2.52%) Windows 10
5 64 (1.60%) Unix
6 54 (1.35%) Android
7 49 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 40 (1.00%) Apple iOS
9 30 (0.75%) VMS
10 21 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 16 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
13 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.22%) AIX
14 9 (0.22%) Solaris
15 8 (0.20%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.17%) Rocky
17 5 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,290 (32.15%) DevOps
2 916 (22.83%) Agile
3 822 (20.49%) CI/CD
4 757 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
5 510 (12.71%) Migration
6 482 (12.01%) Analytics
7 448 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 351 (8.75%) Data Modelling
9 342 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
10 319 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 317 (7.90%) ETL
12 294 (7.33%) Containerisation
13 290 (7.23%) Cloud Security
13 290 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
14 289 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 285 (7.10%) Test Automation
16 266 (6.63%) Scrum
17 258 (6.43%) Machine Learning
17 258 (6.43%) Microservices
18 257 (6.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 998 (24.88%) Python
2 861 (21.46%) SQL
3 499 (12.44%) PowerShell
4 433 (10.79%) C#
5 361 (9.00%) Java
6 330 (8.23%) JavaScript
7 206 (5.13%) Bash
8 144 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 121 (3.02%) Bicep
10 59 (1.47%) Scala
11 54 (1.35%) R
12 48 (1.20%) C++
13 45 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 43 (1.07%) Go
15 39 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 33 (0.82%) Perl
17 30 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (0.70%) Shell Script
19 22 (0.55%) Groovy
20 21 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 667 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 526 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 343 (8.55%) Degree
4 209 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 127 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 114 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 106 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 96 (2.39%) CISSP
9 82 (2.04%) AWS Certification
10 81 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 56 (1.40%) CISM
12 55 (1.37%) Master's Degree
13 40 (1.00%) CCNP
14 34 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 34 (0.85%) PMP
15 32 (0.80%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
17 27 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.67%) ISTQB
18 26 (0.65%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (5.31%) GDPR
2 166 (4.14%) QA
3 162 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 155 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 153 (3.81%) NIST
6 82 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 66 (1.65%) HIPAA
8 60 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 50 (1.25%) SLA
10 36 (0.90%) NCSC
10 36 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.45%) GRC
13 18 (0.45%) PMO
14 15 (0.37%) MiFID
14 15 (0.37%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 12 (0.30%) COBIT
17 10 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 524 (13.06%) Active Directory
2 331 (8.25%) Docker
3 126 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 80 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 53 (1.32%) vSphere
7 46 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 32 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.25%) XenApp
10 10 (0.25%) XenDesktop
11 9 (0.22%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.22%) DFS Replication
11 9 (0.22%) Firmware
11 9 (0.22%) NFS
12 8 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
13 7 (0.17%) OpenAM
14 5 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.100%) Platform Symphony
15 4 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 560 (13.96%) Terraform
2 480 (11.96%) Kubernetes
3 285 (7.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 240 (5.98%) Ansible
5 102 (2.54%) SCCM
6 93 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
7 59 (1.47%) Grafana
8 56 (1.40%) Puppet
9 50 (1.25%) Prometheus
10 27 (0.67%) WSUS
11 24 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.55%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.40%) Nessus
14 15 (0.37%) Kibana
14 15 (0.37%) Podman
15 14 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
15 14 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (0.35%) Nmap
16 13 (0.32%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,263 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 380 (9.47%) Databricks
3 198 (4.94%) VMware
4 197 (4.91%) Google
5 160 (3.99%) Oracle
6 131 (3.27%) Cisco
7 121 (3.02%) SAP
8 104 (2.59%) Citrix
9 100 (2.49%) ServiceNow
10 75 (1.87%) Palo Alto
11 65 (1.62%) Splunk
12 61 (1.52%) CyberArk
13 60 (1.50%) IBM
14 58 (1.45%) Salesforce
15 57 (1.42%) Red Hat
16 43 (1.07%) Zscaler
17 41 (1.02%) F5
18 38 (0.95%) Fortinet
18 38 (0.95%) OpenAI
19 37 (0.92%) Okta