Azure Contract Job Trends in Merton

Microsoft Azure
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merton 13.89% 4.17% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.56% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £185 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% - -
75th Percentile £438 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £500 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +14.94% -8.42% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - -
Median hourly rate £58.94 - -
75th Percentile £63.32 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 9 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 25.00% 8.33% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £185 £373 £423
25th Percentile £243 £388 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -10.05% +119.77%
75th Percentile £369 £463 £499
90th Percentile £438 £478 £512
South London median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - -
Median hourly rate £58.94 - -
75th Percentile £63.32 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +73.34% - -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Merton

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Merton over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

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 28 February 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
Morden - 4 £308 - 1
New Malden - 1 - -
Azure
South London

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) DKIM
2 1 (20.00%) DMARC
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) NGFW
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint