Azure Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Microsoft Azure
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hounslow requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 9 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 16.36% 9.09% 7.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.91% 35.29% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £319 £277 £409
25th Percentile £347 £363 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% -6.67% -26.42%
75th Percentile £434 £488 £534
90th Percentile £519 £615 £563
West London median daily rate £603 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +47.31% -18.20% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £58.00
West London median hourly rate - £26.30 £32.50
% change year-on-year - -19.09% -49.22%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22 17 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 40.00% 25.76% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 21
10th Percentile £363 £219 £78
25th Percentile £466 £363 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.94% -22.50% -5.66%
75th Percentile £570 £456 £550
90th Percentile £619 £509 £611
West London median daily rate £523 £416 £500
% change year-on-year +25.60% -16.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.90
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.71%
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - £66.10
West London median hourly rate £28.19 £22.27 £32.50
% change year-on-year +26.58% -31.48% -53.57%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Hounslow over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Hounslow

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Brentford -1 3 £375 +56.25% 3
Osterley - 1 £300 -
Azure
West London

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) Akamai
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 4 (44.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) IT Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) IT Support
1 4 (44.44%) IT Support Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Support Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
1 1 (11.11%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
1 4 (44.44%) Smartphone
2 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 1 (11.11%) Media Streaming
3 1 (11.11%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Android
1 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) API Development
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) DRM
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Apple
2 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow