Azure Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Microsoft Azure
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 7 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Guildford 17.07% 6.45% 16.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 36.36% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £431 £214 £521
25th Percentile £468 £309 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £428 £669
Median % change year-on-year +30.41% -36.07% +31.77%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £738
90th Percentile £675 £674 £749
Surrey median daily rate £550 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% +5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 34.15% 17.74% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 15
10th Percentile £407 £250 £423
25th Percentile £413 £414 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -24.14% +13.73%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £788
90th Percentile £623 £738 £825
Surrey median daily rate £425 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile - - £48.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £29.00 - -
90th Percentile £29.60 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £29.00 £17.80 £48.75
% change year-on-year +62.92% -63.49% +91.18%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Guildford

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Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Guildford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Guildford over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Guildford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Machine Learning
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) MCSE
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) SAP