Azure Contract Job Trends in Kingston Upon Thames

Microsoft Azure
South London > Kingston Upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Kingston Upon Thames 5.41% - 9.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £184
25th Percentile - - £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £300
75th Percentile - - £394
90th Percentile - - £450
South London median daily rate £513 £380 £475
% change year-on-year +34.71% -19.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - -
Median hourly rate £58.94 - -
75th Percentile £63.32 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 - -

All Cloud Skills
Kingston Upon Thames

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 Kingston Upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 27.03% 18.18% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile - £174 £175
25th Percentile £163 £191 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £200 £300
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -33.33% -45.58%
75th Percentile £325 £255 £358
90th Percentile £430 £353 £435
South London median daily rate £513 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile £54.55 - £17.29
Median hourly rate £58.94 - £19.07
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
South London median hourly rate £58.94 - £19.07
% change year-on-year - - -15.27%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Kingston Upon Thames

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Kingston Upon Thames region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
New Malden - 1 - - 3
Azure
South London

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames 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 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft