Azure App Service Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure App Service
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure App Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 176 208
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.027% 0.047% 0.018%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.083% 0.17% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.89%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £650 £673
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.35% +34.50%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Azure App Service 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,208 1,201 1,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.34% 28.51% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 810 1,102
10th Percentile £204 £262 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
England median daily rate £500 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 47
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.16 £47.50 £23.95
Median % change year-on-year -61.77% +98.33% +17.63%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.95 £50.79
90th Percentile £40.16 £64.73 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% +29.09% +22.22%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure App Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Azure App Service job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure App Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure App Service

Azure App Service
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure App Service within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Thames Valley +8 1 £400 -
Berkshire +6 1 £400 -
Azure App Service
England

Azure App Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Twilio
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform