Azure Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Microsoft Azure
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 39.13% - 2.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 75.00% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £556 - £369
25th Percentile £591 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.52%
75th Percentile - - £416
90th Percentile £628 - £421
West London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -11.89%

All Cloud Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12 6 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 52.17% 85.71% 45.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 32
10th Percentile £426 - £351
25th Percentile £550 £188 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £390 £531
Median % change year-on-year +54.49% -26.59% -3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £597
90th Percentile - - £621
West London median daily rate £500 £450 £515
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.62% -0.39%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Richmond upon Thames

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Richmond upon Thames over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Richmond upon Thames

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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 8 (88.89%) Apache Spark
2 4 (44.44%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Collibra
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Data Lake
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
2 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 4 (44.44%) Mixpanel
2 4 (44.44%) OLAP
2 4 (44.44%) OLTP
2 4 (44.44%) Power BI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Principal Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Principal Software Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Kafka
2 4 (44.44%) Great Expectations
2 4 (44.44%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Analytics
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) Data Architecture
1 8 (88.89%) Data Engineering
1 8 (88.89%) Observability
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (44.44%) AI
2 4 (44.44%) Architecture Governance
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
2 4 (44.44%) Data Privacy
2 4 (44.44%) Data Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) MapReduce
2 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 4 (44.44%) Monte Carlo Method
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (44.44%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Databricks
2 4 (44.44%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft