Azure Blueprints Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Blueprints over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 - 491
Rank change year-on-year - - +81
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% - 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.092% - 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile - - £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.17%
75th Percentile £813 - £479
90th Percentile £850 - £492
England median daily rate £751 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Azure Blueprints falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Blueprints in London

Azure Blueprints
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Blueprints in London

Azure Blueprints
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Blueprints within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London - 2 £751 -
Azure Blueprints
England

Azure Blueprints
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Reinsurance
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft