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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 169 181
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 +66
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 10 31 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.56% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.61% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 35
10th Percentile £400 £425 £525
25th Percentile £434 £506 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £601
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +3.99% +14.48%
75th Percentile £569 £644 £728
90th Percentile £578 £685 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%

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 3,078 5,078 5,494
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.29% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,989 3,022 3,804
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £627 £601
90th Percentile £663 £699 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 472 252
10th Percentile £14.18 £13.03 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £27.88 £54.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.25% +9.88% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.31 £70.39 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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
Berkshire +13 7 £500 -20.00%
Thames Valley +3 7 £500 -20.00%
Surrey - 3 £550 -
Azure Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (40.00%) React
4 4 (40.00%) REST
4 4 (40.00%) C#
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
4 4 (40.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Databricks
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
5 3 (30.00%) Technology Transformation
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
6 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
6 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Bicep
6 2 (20.00%) Azure App Service
6 2 (20.00%) MLOps
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault

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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (20.00%) Azure App Service
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Twilio
6 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Parquet
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
4 1 (10.00%) FHIR
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) LangChain
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) Redux
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) Technology Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) MLOps
3 2 (20.00%) OOP
3 2 (20.00%) SOLID
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) LLM
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Snow