Azure Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 3,714 2,405 2,861
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.38% 17.90% 17.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.96% 40.89% 43.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,677 1,660 1,998
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £438 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
England median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 11
10th Percentile - £26.00 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £27.24 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.99 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.87% +51.22% -33.20%
75th Percentile £78.75 £63.27 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £91.88 £57.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £33.39 £35.00
% change year-on-year +57.26% -4.61% -24.21%

All Cloud Computing 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 8,261 5,881 6,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.88% 43.77% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,715 3,981 4,565
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.83%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 99 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £27.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -12.90% -23.46%
75th Percentile £58.31 £47.13 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure job vacancy trend in London

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 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
Central London +1 450 £550 - 446
West London +1 59 £483 +1.58% 70
South London -2 40 £550 +4.76% 27
East London +1 13 £525 -2.78% 24
North London +3 7 £525 +2.94% 13
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 178 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 116 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 110 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 105 (2.83%) Confluence
5 73 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 72 (1.94%) Apache
7 19 (0.51%) CMS
8 13 (0.35%) IIS
9 11 (0.30%) SAS
10 6 (0.16%) nginx
11 5 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 5 (0.13%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.13%) Mendix
12 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.081%) Kentico
13 3 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 68 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 22 (0.59%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.19%) Revit
9 5 (0.13%) Notion
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.081%) CPLEX
11 3 (0.081%) Mingle
11 3 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.054%) 1Password
13 1 (0.027%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.027%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 70 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.22%) Magento
5 8 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.19%) Shopify
6 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) R3 Corda
7 5 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.11%) Cloudability
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Quorum
8 4 (0.11%) Ripple
8 4 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.081%) Endur
9 3 (0.081%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (33.74%) AWS
2 840 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
3 641 (17.26%) GCP
4 517 (13.92%) Power Platform
5 490 (13.19%) Entra ID
6 467 (12.57%) GitHub
7 324 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
8 272 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
9 229 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 200 (5.39%) Serverless
11 190 (5.12%) Snowflake
12 180 (4.85%) SaaS
13 161 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 156 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
14 156 (4.20%) Power Automate
15 149 (4.01%) Azure AI
16 147 (3.96%) Microsoft Copilot
17 144 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
18 137 (3.69%) PowerApps
19 132 (3.55%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 200 (5.39%) Firewall
2 166 (4.47%) DNS
3 145 (3.90%) Network Security
4 128 (3.45%) VPN
5 86 (2.32%) DHCP
6 69 (1.86%) WAN
7 53 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.92%) BGP
10 32 (0.86%) OSPF
11 29 (0.78%) LAN
11 29 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.75%) Wireless
13 27 (0.73%) SAN
14 24 (0.65%) Internet
15 22 (0.59%) NGFW
15 22 (0.59%) SSL
15 22 (0.59%) VLAN
16 20 (0.54%) IPsec
17 19 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (9.29%) Power BI
2 211 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 208 (5.60%) SQL Server
4 185 (4.98%) Data Lake
5 141 (3.80%) Metadata
6 132 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
7 115 (3.10%) NoSQL
8 86 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 84 (2.26%) Delta Lake
10 73 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 57 (1.53%) MongoDB
12 46 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 46 (1.24%) Big Data
12 46 (1.24%) MySQL
13 45 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 42 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 39 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
15 39 (1.05%) Power Query
16 35 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (0.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 355 (9.56%) Git
2 262 (7.05%) JIRA
3 215 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 157 (4.23%) GitLab
5 74 (1.99%) Selenium
6 32 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 32 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 32 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 31 (0.83%) JUnit
8 30 (0.81%) Maven
9 29 (0.78%) Claude Code
9 29 (0.78%) Postman
10 28 (0.75%) Gradle
11 23 (0.62%) JMeter
11 23 (0.62%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.51%) MLflow
14 17 (0.46%) REST Assured
15 15 (0.40%) Mockito
16 14 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 1,035 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 999 (26.90%) Finance
3 398 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
4 362 (9.75%) Public Sector
5 352 (9.48%) Banking
6 132 (3.55%) Retail
7 86 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 79 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 78 (2.10%) Legal
10 75 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 63 (1.70%) Marketing
12 53 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 40 (1.08%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.00%) Front Office
16 34 (0.92%) Law
16 34 (0.92%) Local Government
17 33 (0.89%) Manufacturing
18 31 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 760 (20.46%) Architect
2 518 (13.95%) Senior
3 425 (11.44%) Developer
4 334 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
5 317 (8.54%) Lead
6 288 (7.75%) Data Engineer
7 236 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
8 218 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
9 216 (5.82%) Analyst
10 156 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 147 (3.96%) Consultant
12 138 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 133 (3.58%) Data Architect
14 116 (3.12%) Azure Architect
15 101 (2.72%) Security Engineer
16 100 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 97 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
17 97 (2.61%) Senior Developer
18 96 (2.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 88 (2.37%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 655 (17.64%) Terraform
2 379 (10.20%) REST
3 332 (8.94%) .NET
4 231 (6.22%) Kafka
5 164 (4.42%) React
6 160 (4.31%) PySpark
7 131 (3.53%) RESTful
8 121 (3.26%) OAuth
9 98 (2.64%) JSON
10 88 (2.37%) HTML
11 87 (2.34%) AngularJS
11 87 (2.34%) Spring
12 84 (2.26%) Spring Boot
13 81 (2.18%) LangChain
13 81 (2.18%) OAuth2
14 80 (2.15%) Middleware
15 68 (1.83%) CSS
16 64 (1.72%) .NET Framework
16 64 (1.72%) SOAP
17 62 (1.67%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 432 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 207 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 191 (5.14%) AI Agents
4 178 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 155 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 148 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
7 104 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 102 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
9 99 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 89 (2.40%) Data Centre
11 86 (2.32%) Data Structures
12 80 (2.15%) Management Information System
13 58 (1.56%) PKI
14 50 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
15 44 (1.18%) Replication
16 43 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
16 43 (1.16%) Public Cloud
17 42 (1.13%) CMDB
18 39 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
19 38 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 335 (9.02%) Windows
2 199 (5.36%) Linux
3 127 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 40 (1.08%) Unix
6 33 (0.89%) Android
7 29 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (0.67%) VMS
9 23 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 20 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.48%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
14 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.11%) CentOS
17 3 (0.081%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
19 1 (0.027%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,417 (38.15%) DevOps
2 1,257 (33.84%) CI/CD
3 936 (25.20%) Agile
4 838 (22.56%) AI
5 745 (20.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 656 (17.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 563 (15.16%) Migration
8 547 (14.73%) Analytics
9 530 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
10 453 (12.20%) Data Modelling
11 425 (11.44%) Roadmaps
12 412 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 384 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
14 380 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
15 372 (10.02%) Data Engineering
16 360 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 348 (9.37%) Test Automation
18 344 (9.26%) Software Engineering
19 343 (9.24%) Data Governance
20 329 (8.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 962 (25.90%) Python
2 810 (21.81%) SQL
3 394 (10.61%) PowerShell
4 326 (8.78%) C#
5 314 (8.45%) Java
6 262 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 190 (5.12%) TypeScript
8 174 (4.68%) Bash
9 172 (4.63%) Bicep
10 71 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 36 (0.97%) Scala
12 32 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 28 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (0.67%) Go
14 25 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.48%) Groovy
17 17 (0.46%) R
18 16 (0.43%) Korn
19 15 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 812 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 690 (18.58%) SC Cleared
3 238 (6.41%) Degree
4 216 (5.82%) Azure Certification
5 107 (2.88%) CISSP
6 99 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 99 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 95 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 85 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 77 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 61 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 57 (1.53%) CISM
12 51 (1.37%) PMP
13 49 (1.32%) PMI Certification
14 37 (1.00%) CCNP
15 34 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 25 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 226 (6.09%) QA
3 154 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 134 (3.61%) NIST
5 133 (3.58%) GDPR
6 68 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 54 (1.45%) SLA
8 38 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
9 37 (1.00%) GRC
10 34 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 31 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 30 (0.81%) NCSC
12 30 (0.81%) PMO
13 27 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 27 (0.73%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 16 (0.43%) COBIT
16 15 (0.40%) HIPAA
16 15 (0.40%) WCAG
17 14 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 408 (10.99%) Docker
2 373 (10.04%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 51 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.57%) vSphere
8 9 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.22%) IAG
9 8 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.16%) Postfix
11 5 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.13%) NFS
11 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (0.081%) Squid
14 2 (0.054%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.054%) Firmware
14 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.054%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 544 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 173 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 160 (4.31%) Ansible
4 144 (3.88%) Grafana
5 101 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 49 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.16%) SCCM
8 32 (0.86%) Argo
9 22 (0.59%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.57%) Puppet
11 17 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.24%) Packer
13 8 (0.22%) Control-M
14 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 7 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.19%) QRadar
14 7 (0.19%) systemd
15 6 (0.16%) HP ALM
15 6 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,308 (35.22%) Microsoft
2 457 (12.30%) Databricks
3 177 (4.77%) ServiceNow
4 166 (4.47%) Oracle
5 148 (3.98%) Google
6 136 (3.66%) OpenAI
7 123 (3.31%) Splunk
8 121 (3.26%) VMware
9 104 (2.80%) Cisco
9 104 (2.80%) Salesforce
10 93 (2.50%) SAP
11 76 (2.05%) Foundry
12 69 (1.86%) CyberArk
13 68 (1.83%) Palo Alto
14 64 (1.72%) Dynatrace
15 54 (1.45%) Zscaler
16 47 (1.27%) Fortinet
17 42 (1.13%) IBM
17 42 (1.13%) Informatica
18 38 (1.02%) CrowdStrike