Azure Contracts in South London

Microsoft Azure
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing Azure 19 23 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 10.33% 9.54% 5.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.68% 18.70% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 18
10th Percentile £255 £231 £292
25th Percentile £400 £422 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -8.65% +5.05%
75th Percentile £498 £506 £550
90th Percentile £532 £553 £614
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £23.40 £34.50
% change year-on-year +49.57% -32.17% -37.27%

All Cloud Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 74 123 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 40.22% 51.04% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 96 128
10th Percentile £380 £206 £292
25th Percentile £463 £407 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £544 £540 £649
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile - - £20.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in South London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in South London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in South London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Croydon +4 8 £475 -5.00% 1
Merton +2 5 £350 +40.10% 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 - - 7
Bromley -7 1 £675 +42.11% 6
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (52.63%) Entra ID
3 8 (42.11%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) WAN
2 3 (15.79%) LAN
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Games
5 2 (10.53%) Local Government
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Android
2 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.26%) VMS
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (26.32%) Process Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) CQRS
5 3 (15.79%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (15.79%) Identity Management
5 3 (15.79%) Service Management
5 3 (15.79%) TDD
5 3 (15.79%) Workflow
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Proofpoint
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Apple
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) EMC
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) SonicWALL