Azure Developer Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Developer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the South East is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 168 231
Rank change year-on-year +4 +63 -48
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 34 51 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.62% 0.90% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.95% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 46 19
10th Percentile £485 £514 £405
25th Percentile £525 £544 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £588
90th Percentile £688 £750 £608
England median daily rate £580 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +0.87% +6.98% +7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,091 5,373 7,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 94.75% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,070 3,753 4,943
10th Percentile £213 £220 £203
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.42% +9.56%
75th Percentile £619 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 242 324
10th Percentile £12.79 £16.53 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.33 £15.59
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -19.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £75.00 £58.12
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the South East

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the South East

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the South East

Azure Developer
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 Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 -17 25 £625 +4.17%
Berkshire -16 22 £650 +8.33%
Buckinghamshire +12 3 £600 -7.69%
Hampshire +1 3 £450 -14.29% 4
Sussex - 2 - -
Kent - 2 £550 - 1
East Sussex +7 1 £625 +66.67%
West Sussex +4 1 - -
Azure Developer
England

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Azure Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (79.41%) DevOps
3 24 (70.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (67.65%) Python
5 22 (64.71%) Full Stack Development
5 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
6 21 (61.76%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (58.82%) Serverless
7 20 (58.82%) Azure Functions
8 19 (55.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 19 (55.88%) Git
9 18 (52.94%) NoSQL
10 17 (50.00%) React
10 17 (50.00%) Entra ID
10 17 (50.00%) SDLC
10 17 (50.00%) Active Directory
10 17 (50.00%) Microservices
10 17 (50.00%) Product Ownership
11 16 (47.06%) Agile
12 15 (44.12%) Product Backlog
13 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
13 12 (35.29%) Unit Testing
13 12 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (35.29%) Change Management
14 10 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (23.53%) Finance
15 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
16 6 (17.65%) SQL
16 6 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (17.65%) Azure API Management

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (70.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (61.76%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (58.82%) Azure Functions
4 20 (58.82%) Serverless
5 19 (55.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (50.00%) Entra ID
7 10 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (17.65%) Azure API Management
8 6 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
10 2 (5.88%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) NoSQL
2 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 5 (14.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (8.82%) Power BI
4 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (55.88%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Selenium
2 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (8.82%) Music Industry
5 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) React
2 5 (14.71%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.88%) Django
4 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.88%) OpenID
4 2 (5.88%) REST
4 2 (5.88%) Swagger
5 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.94%) OAuth
5 1 (2.94%) SOAP
5 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) DevOps
2 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 22 (64.71%) Full Stack Development
3 17 (50.00%) Microservices
3 17 (50.00%) SDLC
4 16 (47.06%) Agile
5 15 (44.12%) Product Backlog
6 12 (35.29%) Change Management
6 12 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (35.29%) Unit Testing
7 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
8 4 (11.76%) API Management
9 3 (8.82%) Analytics
9 3 (8.82%) Application Security
9 3 (8.82%) Break/Fix
9 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (8.82%) Security Testing
9 3 (8.82%) SOLID
9 3 (8.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) C#
4 3 (8.82%) C
4 3 (8.82%) Java
4 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft