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 in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 174 179
Rank change year-on-year +37 +5 +63
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 22 31 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.56% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.60% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 38
10th Percentile £411 £504 £513
25th Percentile £500 £525 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile - £688 £750
England median daily rate £568 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -2.16% +0.87% +8.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Thames Valley +43 22 £625 -3.85%
Berkshire +33 21 £625 -3.85%
Buckinghamshire +14 1 £545 -9.17%
Azure Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (72.73%) Python
3 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 15 (68.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (59.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 13 (59.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (50.00%) React
6 10 (45.45%) Agile
6 10 (45.45%) Serverless
7 9 (40.91%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
7 9 (40.91%) Java
7 9 (40.91%) Selenium
8 8 (36.36%) Git
8 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
8 8 (36.36%) Microservices
8 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
8 8 (36.36%) Azure API Management
8 8 (36.36%) Azure Functions
8 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (31.82%) Product Ownership
9 7 (31.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (27.27%) Product Backlog
10 6 (27.27%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (27.27%) SDLC
10 6 (27.27%) ADO
10 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
10 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
10 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
11 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (59.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 10 (45.45%) Serverless
5 9 (40.91%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (36.36%) Azure API Management
6 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (36.36%) Azure Functions
7 7 (31.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
9 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
10 2 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
11 1 (4.55%) PaaS
11 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) Parquet
4 1 (4.55%) Redis
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Selenium
2 8 (36.36%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) React
2 6 (27.27%) ADO
3 3 (13.64%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) OpenID
5 1 (4.55%) Prisma
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) Redux
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Product Ownership
2 6 (27.27%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
4 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
5 8 (36.36%) Microservices
5 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 6 (27.27%) Product Backlog
6 6 (27.27%) SDLC
6 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
7 3 (13.64%) API Development
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (9.09%) Change Management
8 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (9.09%) Release Management
8 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (4.55%) API Design
9 1 (4.55%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (4.55%) Front End Development
9 1 (4.55%) Identity Access Management
9 1 (4.55%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Spotify
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Snow