Azure Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure 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 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,205 2,877 4,589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 17.57% 16.13% 16.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.49% 42.66% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,118 3,303
10th Percentile £373 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £764 £788
England median daily rate £525 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 23
10th Percentile £23.80 £18.21 £21.53
25th Percentile £26.45 £22.08 £24.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.40 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.57% -31.18% -38.18%
75th Percentile £60.13 £35.00 £61.00
90th Percentile £65.00 - £80.20
England median hourly rate £44.25 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +26.43% -36.36% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
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 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 +1 379 £550 +0.05% 201
West London -4 20 £475 - 62
East London +2 18 £585 +8.58% 22
South London +2 18 £470 -1.05% 17
North London -2 4 £451 +3.14% 3
Azure
England

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 125 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 88 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 59 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 52 (2.36%) Confluence
5 35 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 33 (1.50%) Apache
7 10 (0.45%) CMS
8 8 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 8 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.18%) nginx
10 4 (0.18%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.14%) IIS
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.091%) JBoss
12 2 (0.091%) Luigi
12 2 (0.091%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 36 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.23%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.045%) 1Password
8 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.36%) Endur
4 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.14%) Unica
7 2 (0.091%) Alphatax
7 2 (0.091%) assyst
7 2 (0.091%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.091%) Kondor
7 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.091%) Oracle 11i
7 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 695 (31.52%) AWS
2 390 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
3 359 (16.28%) GCP
4 274 (12.43%) Power Platform
5 260 (11.79%) Microsoft 365
6 252 (11.43%) Entra ID
7 163 (7.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 148 (6.71%) GitHub
9 114 (5.17%) Serverless
10 100 (4.54%) SaaS
11 97 (4.40%) Azure AKS
12 92 (4.17%) Snowflake
13 84 (3.81%) PaaS
14 83 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
15 82 (3.72%) Power Automate
15 82 (3.72%) PowerApps
16 81 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
17 78 (3.54%) IaaS
18 75 (3.40%) Azure Functions
19 72 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 210 (9.52%) Firewall
2 119 (5.40%) DNS
3 115 (5.22%) VPN
4 94 (4.26%) Network Security
5 61 (2.77%) WAN
6 45 (2.04%) TCP/IP
7 42 (1.90%) DHCP
7 42 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.45%) MPLS
9 29 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (1.18%) HTTP
10 26 (1.18%) LAN
11 21 (0.95%) Wireless
12 19 (0.86%) NGFW
13 18 (0.82%) BGP
13 18 (0.82%) VLAN
14 15 (0.68%) SMTP
15 14 (0.63%) SSL
16 10 (0.45%) Internet
16 10 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (8.57%) Power BI
2 178 (8.07%) SQL Server
3 123 (5.58%) Data Lake
4 118 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
5 70 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 68 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 68 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (2.04%) Big Data
8 34 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 33 (1.50%) Metadata
10 32 (1.45%) Tableau
11 30 (1.36%) Relational Database
12 27 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 27 (1.22%) Oracle Database
12 27 (1.22%) Redis
13 26 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 24 (1.09%) Delta Lake
14 24 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
15 21 (0.95%) Hadoop
16 20 (0.91%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 108 (4.90%) JIRA
2 100 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 93 (4.22%) Git
4 77 (3.49%) GitLab
5 21 (0.95%) Postman
6 19 (0.86%) Selenium
7 18 (0.82%) JMeter
8 17 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.73%) Maven
10 14 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.54%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.54%) ERwin
11 12 (0.54%) JUnit
11 12 (0.54%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.41%) LoadRunner
12 9 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.41%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.36%) SoapUI
13 8 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 580 (26.30%) Finance
1 580 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 219 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
3 208 (9.43%) Banking
4 186 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 75 (3.40%) Front Office
6 62 (2.81%) Investment Banking
7 49 (2.22%) Retail
8 48 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (2.13%) Marketing
10 38 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.63%) Law
12 35 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.32%) Back Office
15 28 (1.27%) Legal
16 27 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.18%) Local Government
18 20 (0.91%) Telecoms
19 16 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 420 (19.05%) Architect
2 329 (14.92%) Developer
3 262 (11.88%) Senior
4 209 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
5 183 (8.30%) Data Engineer
6 155 (7.03%) Lead
7 137 (6.21%) Analyst
8 131 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
9 104 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
10 91 (4.13%) Consultant
11 89 (4.04%) Azure Architect
12 70 (3.17%) Data Architect
13 67 (3.04%) Support Engineer
14 66 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 60 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
16 59 (2.68%) Senior Developer
17 58 (2.63%) Security Architect
18 57 (2.59%) Software Engineer
19 51 (2.31%) Cloud Architect
19 51 (2.31%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (10.07%) .NET
2 106 (4.81%) React
3 98 (4.44%) Kafka
4 85 (3.85%) REST
5 62 (2.81%) AngularJS
6 57 (2.59%) RESTful
7 56 (2.54%) PySpark
8 53 (2.40%) OAuth
9 50 (2.27%) .NET Core
10 48 (2.18%) Node.js
11 47 (2.13%) HTML
12 44 (2.00%) CSS
12 44 (2.00%) JSON
13 42 (1.90%) .NET Framework
14 41 (1.86%) ADO
14 41 (1.86%) Pandas
14 41 (1.86%) Web Services
15 38 (1.72%) ARM Templates
16 37 (1.68%) YAML
17 35 (1.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (3.31%) Cloud Native
2 69 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 68 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 58 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 50 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 43 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 36 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 35 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.41%) Hedge funds
12 30 (1.36%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.22%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.18%) Derivative
15 25 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (1.04%) Algorithms
18 22 (1.00%) Low-Code
19 20 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 272 (12.34%) Windows
2 119 (5.40%) Linux
3 108 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.09%) Unix
6 23 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.68%) Android
9 10 (0.45%) VMS
9 10 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.27%) Rocky
10 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.23%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.18%) AIX
12 4 (0.18%) CentOS
12 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.18%) Solaris
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.091%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (30.16%) DevOps
2 486 (22.04%) Agile
3 429 (19.46%) CI/CD
4 366 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
5 277 (12.56%) Analytics
6 270 (12.24%) Migration
7 235 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 192 (8.71%) Data Modelling
9 187 (8.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 166 (7.53%) Software Engineering
11 163 (7.39%) ETL
12 159 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
13 150 (6.80%) Data Engineering
14 148 (6.71%) Machine Learning
15 147 (6.67%) Containerisation
16 145 (6.58%) Cloud Security
17 138 (6.26%) Microservices
18 131 (5.94%) Data Pipeline
19 130 (5.90%) Test Automation
20 128 (5.80%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 551 (24.99%) Python
2 470 (21.32%) SQL
3 293 (13.29%) PowerShell
4 260 (11.79%) C#
5 237 (10.75%) Java
6 209 (9.48%) JavaScript
7 88 (3.99%) Bash
8 75 (3.40%) TypeScript
9 73 (3.31%) Bicep
10 48 (2.18%) Scala
11 36 (1.63%) C++
12 32 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 27 (1.22%) Go
14 20 (0.91%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.82%) R
16 17 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.77%) Perl
17 16 (0.73%) Ruby
18 14 (0.63%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 295 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 221 (10.02%) SC Cleared
3 191 (8.66%) Degree
4 95 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 54 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.22%) CISSP
7 48 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 44 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 43 (1.95%) AWS Certification
10 33 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.13%) CISM
12 23 (1.04%) PMP
13 22 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.91%) CCNP
15 14 (0.63%) CEH
15 14 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
16 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.59%) CISA
17 12 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.31%) Data Quality
1 95 (4.31%) GDPR
2 80 (3.63%) QA
3 70 (3.17%) NIST
4 67 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 24 (1.09%) HIPAA
9 20 (0.91%) SLA
10 17 (0.77%) GRC
11 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.27%) NCSC
13 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.23%) PMO
14 4 (0.18%) EMIR
14 4 (0.18%) ITGC
System Software
1 266 (12.06%) Active Directory
2 178 (8.07%) Docker
3 51 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 48 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 35 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.54%) vSphere
8 11 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.27%) OpenAM
11 4 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.18%) Platform Symphony
12 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.091%) Firmware
13 2 (0.091%) OpenDJ
13 2 (0.091%) OpenIDM
13 2 (0.091%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.045%) Veritas File System
14 1 (0.045%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 317 (14.38%) Terraform
2 299 (13.56%) Kubernetes
3 151 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 102 (4.63%) Ansible
5 61 (2.77%) SCCM
6 39 (1.77%) Grafana
7 37 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.32%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.13%) Puppet
10 18 (0.82%) FortiGate
11 15 (0.68%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.54%) Kibana
13 8 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.36%) VxRail
14 7 (0.32%) Argo
14 7 (0.32%) Perfmon
15 6 (0.27%) Control-M
15 6 (0.27%) Nagios
16 5 (0.23%) Istio
16 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 629 (28.53%) Microsoft
2 210 (9.52%) Databricks
3 113 (5.12%) Google
4 94 (4.26%) Oracle
5 82 (3.72%) VMware
6 60 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.59%) Palo Alto
8 56 (2.54%) Cisco
9 44 (2.00%) SAP
10 39 (1.77%) Splunk
11 34 (1.54%) CheckPoint
12 33 (1.50%) Fortinet
13 29 (1.32%) Citrix
13 29 (1.32%) IBM
14 28 (1.27%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.22%) CyberArk
16 26 (1.18%) Informatica
17 24 (1.09%) Salesforce
18 21 (0.95%) Infoblox
18 21 (0.95%) Qualys