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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,225 2,918 4,440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 17.84% 16.50% 16.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.10% 42.94% 43.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 2,148 3,211
10th Percentile £365 £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 £763 £788
England median daily rate £525 £545 £560
% change year-on-year -3.67% -2.68% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 19
10th Percentile £26.45 £18.21 £22.35
25th Percentile £28.36 £22.08 £24.13
Median hourly rate £36.25 £23.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.91% -41.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57.69 £35.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £65.00 - £87.50
England median hourly rate £38.75 £35.00 £58.65
% change year-on-year +10.71% -40.32% +21.50%

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 5,285 6,795 10,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.37% 38.43% 38.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,668 5,005 7,493
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 67 84
10th Percentile £22.58 £17.16 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £31.35 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -48.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £60.25 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 0 378 £550 - 233
South London +4 21 £475 - 19
West London -5 16 £488 +2.63% 67
East London +1 15 £585 +8.58% 31
North London -1 4 £451 +3.14% 8
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
1 119 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 85 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 59 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 52 (2.34%) Confluence
5 38 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 34 (1.53%) Apache
7 12 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.49%) CMS
9 8 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
10 7 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.22%) nginx
12 3 (0.13%) IIS
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.090%) JBoss
13 2 (0.090%) Luigi
13 2 (0.090%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.090%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.090%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.090%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 39 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.22%) Trello
7 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.045%) 1Password
8 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.63%) Endur
3 10 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.090%) Alphatax
7 2 (0.090%) assyst
7 2 (0.090%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.090%) Kondor
7 2 (0.090%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.090%) Unica
7 2 (0.090%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 709 (31.87%) AWS
2 396 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
3 366 (16.45%) GCP
4 277 (12.45%) Power Platform
5 252 (11.33%) Microsoft 365
6 246 (11.06%) Entra ID
7 167 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 148 (6.65%) GitHub
9 110 (4.94%) Serverless
10 103 (4.63%) SaaS
11 94 (4.22%) Azure AKS
12 89 (4.00%) Snowflake
13 85 (3.82%) PaaS
14 84 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
15 83 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
15 83 (3.73%) IaaS
16 80 (3.60%) Power Automate
16 80 (3.60%) PowerApps
17 74 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
18 73 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 218 (9.80%) Firewall
2 121 (5.44%) DNS
3 119 (5.35%) VPN
4 98 (4.40%) Network Security
5 67 (3.01%) WAN
6 47 (2.11%) TCP/IP
7 45 (2.02%) DHCP
8 43 (1.93%) SD-WAN
9 35 (1.57%) MPLS
10 32 (1.44%) LAN
11 30 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (1.26%) HTTP
13 23 (1.03%) Wireless
14 21 (0.94%) BGP
14 21 (0.94%) NGFW
15 20 (0.90%) VLAN
16 15 (0.67%) SMTP
17 12 (0.54%) OSPF
17 12 (0.54%) SSL
18 11 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (8.72%) Power BI
2 182 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 125 (5.62%) Data Lake
4 113 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 72 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 68 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 63 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (2.20%) Big Data
9 35 (1.57%) Tableau
10 34 (1.53%) Metadata
11 32 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 31 (1.39%) Relational Database
13 29 (1.30%) Oracle Database
14 27 (1.21%) Delta Lake
14 27 (1.21%) MongoDB
15 25 (1.12%) Redis
15 25 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 23 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
17 21 (0.94%) Hadoop
18 20 (0.90%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 115 (5.17%) JIRA
2 103 (4.63%) Git
3 102 (4.58%) Jenkins
4 77 (3.46%) GitLab
5 20 (0.90%) Postman
6 19 (0.85%) Selenium
7 18 (0.81%) JMeter
8 17 (0.76%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.72%) Maven
10 14 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.58%) JUnit
12 12 (0.54%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.54%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.49%) ERwin
14 10 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.40%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.40%) SoapUI
15 9 (0.40%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 600 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 598 (26.88%) Finance
3 226 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (9.26%) Banking
5 182 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.46%) Front Office
7 63 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 49 (2.20%) Marketing
9 48 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (2.16%) Retail
10 37 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 37 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.48%) Law
12 32 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.30%) Back Office
13 29 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (1.26%) Legal
15 25 (1.12%) Local Government
16 24 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 427 (19.19%) Architect
2 336 (15.10%) Developer
3 261 (11.73%) Senior
4 219 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
5 187 (8.40%) Data Engineer
6 151 (6.79%) Lead
7 140 (6.29%) Analyst
8 131 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
9 103 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 96 (4.31%) Azure Architect
11 91 (4.09%) Consultant
12 69 (3.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 68 (3.06%) Data Architect
13 68 (3.06%) Support Engineer
14 65 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
15 60 (2.70%) Security Architect
15 60 (2.70%) Senior Developer
16 59 (2.65%) Software Engineer
17 53 (2.38%) Project Manager
18 52 (2.34%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (9.53%) .NET
2 113 (5.08%) React
3 99 (4.45%) Kafka
4 88 (3.96%) REST
5 64 (2.88%) AngularJS
6 57 (2.56%) RESTful
7 54 (2.43%) PySpark
8 53 (2.38%) OAuth
9 52 (2.34%) HTML
10 50 (2.25%) .NET Core
10 50 (2.25%) Node.js
11 48 (2.16%) CSS
12 47 (2.11%) JSON
13 42 (1.89%) ARM Templates
13 42 (1.89%) Pandas
14 41 (1.84%) Web Services
15 40 (1.80%) .NET Framework
16 39 (1.75%) ADO
17 36 (1.62%) YAML
18 35 (1.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (3.37%) Cloud Native
2 69 (3.10%) Data Centre
3 60 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 57 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 53 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 50 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 36 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.44%) Hedge funds
11 30 (1.35%) Fixed Income
12 29 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.21%) Derivative
14 26 (1.17%) Private Cloud
15 24 (1.08%) Algorithms
15 24 (1.08%) Data Structures
16 21 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
17 20 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
17 20 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 274 (12.31%) Windows
2 126 (5.66%) Linux
3 103 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.08%) Unix
6 23 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.67%) Android
9 11 (0.49%) VMS
10 10 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.27%) AIX
11 6 (0.27%) Rocky
11 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.22%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.18%) CentOS
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS X
13 4 (0.18%) Solaris
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (30.56%) DevOps
2 489 (21.98%) Agile
3 431 (19.37%) CI/CD
4 378 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
5 274 (12.31%) Migration
6 272 (12.22%) Analytics
7 238 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 194 (8.72%) Data Modelling
9 190 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 170 (7.64%) ETL
11 169 (7.60%) Software Engineering
12 163 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
13 158 (7.10%) Data Engineering
14 150 (6.74%) Machine Learning
15 144 (6.47%) Cloud Security
16 143 (6.43%) Containerisation
16 143 (6.43%) Data Pipeline
16 143 (6.43%) Microservices
17 135 (6.07%) Artificial Intelligence
18 132 (5.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 567 (25.48%) Python
2 484 (21.75%) SQL
3 285 (12.81%) PowerShell
4 256 (11.51%) C#
5 242 (10.88%) Java
6 208 (9.35%) JavaScript
7 90 (4.04%) Bash
8 77 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 75 (3.37%) Bicep
10 41 (1.84%) Scala
11 38 (1.71%) C++
12 32 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 28 (1.26%) Go
14 21 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 21 (0.94%) R
15 18 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 18 (0.81%) Perl
16 16 (0.72%) Ruby
17 15 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 295 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 219 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 199 (8.94%) Degree
4 99 (4.45%) Azure Certification
5 54 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.20%) CISSP
7 47 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 44 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 34 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.17%) PMP
12 25 (1.12%) CISM
13 24 (1.08%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.90%) CCNP
15 17 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
17 14 (0.63%) CEH
18 13 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (0.58%) CISA
19 12 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.36%) GDPR
3 82 (3.69%) QA
4 73 (3.28%) NIST
5 68 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 25 (1.12%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.90%) SLA
11 17 (0.76%) GRC
12 8 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.27%) NCSC
15 5 (0.22%) EMIR
15 5 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.22%) PMO
16 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.18%) ITGC
System Software
1 258 (11.60%) Active Directory
2 174 (7.82%) Docker
3 48 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 45 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.63%) vSphere
8 9 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.27%) OpenAM
11 4 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.18%) Firmware
11 4 (0.18%) Platform Symphony
12 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.13%) XenApp
13 2 (0.090%) OpenDJ
13 2 (0.090%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.045%) HDFS
14 1 (0.045%) KVM
Systems Management
1 323 (14.52%) Terraform
2 294 (13.21%) Kubernetes
3 151 (6.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 104 (4.67%) Ansible
5 61 (2.74%) SCCM
6 38 (1.71%) Grafana
7 32 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.30%) Prometheus
9 26 (1.17%) Puppet
10 19 (0.85%) FortiGate
11 15 (0.67%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.54%) Kibana
13 9 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.36%) VxRail
15 7 (0.31%) Perfmon
16 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.27%) Argo
16 6 (0.27%) Control-M
16 6 (0.27%) Kubeflow
16 6 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 635 (28.54%) Microsoft
2 223 (10.02%) Databricks
3 116 (5.21%) Google
4 96 (4.31%) Oracle
5 83 (3.73%) VMware
6 61 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 59 (2.65%) Cisco
8 58 (2.61%) Palo Alto
9 46 (2.07%) SAP
10 40 (1.80%) Splunk
11 34 (1.53%) CheckPoint
11 34 (1.53%) Fortinet
12 30 (1.35%) Citrix
12 30 (1.35%) IBM
13 29 (1.30%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.30%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.12%) Salesforce
15 24 (1.08%) Informatica
16 22 (0.99%) Qualys
17 21 (0.94%) SolarWinds