Azure Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Microsoft Azure
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 11 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 5 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 4.82% 6.94% 11.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% 17.86% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 23
10th Percentile £360 - £500
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -32.14% +291.61%
75th Percentile £425 - £838
90th Percentile £440 £548 -
West London median daily rate £475 £475 £625
% change year-on-year - -24.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16 28 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 19.28% 38.89% 51.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 108
10th Percentile £274 £412 £550
25th Percentile £350 £466 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% -12.00% +290.63%
75th Percentile £438 £595 £650
90th Percentile £453 £650 £741
West London median daily rate £425 £475 £580
% change year-on-year -10.53% -18.10% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £42.28 - -
25th Percentile £42.31 - -
Median hourly rate £44.75 - -
75th Percentile £47.31 - -
90th Percentile £47.43 - -
West London median hourly rate £44.75 £27.20 £90.00
% change year-on-year +64.55% -69.78% +324.03%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Hillingdon

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Heathrow +4 3 £350 -26.32%
Uxbridge -3 1 £450 -20.63% 13
Azure
West London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DMZ
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) SSH
3 1 (25.00%) Telnet
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) RHCE
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Nagios
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable