Azure Contracts in Merton

Microsoft Azure
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 3 5 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 20.83% 15.79% 2.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 83.33% 60.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £224 £220 -
25th Percentile £241 £231 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £250 £475
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% -47.37% +22.58%
75th Percentile £491 £344 £488
90th Percentile £519 £400 -
South London median daily rate £470 £475 £520
% change year-on-year -1.05% -8.65% +5.05%

All Cloud Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 25.00% 26.32% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £228 £228 £176
25th Percentile £250 £250 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £475
90th Percentile £513 £480 £488
South London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -2.91%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Merton

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Merton

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Merton

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Merton 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
Morden +4 3 £388 +19.31%
Azure
South London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Local Government
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Proofpoint
2 2 (40.00%) VMware