Azure Contract Job Trends in South London

Microsoft Azure
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure 31 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 17.22% 7.58% 5.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.80% 19.23% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 16
10th Percentile £420 £380 £350
25th Percentile £463 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £509
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -16.46% +2.78%
75th Percentile £556 £488 £588
90th Percentile £731 £522 £654
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 82 78 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 45.56% 39.39% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 61 104
10th Percentile £254 £300 £387
25th Percentile £422 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £538 £628
90th Percentile £738 £567 £675
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile - - £17.29
Median hourly rate - - £19.07
75th Percentile - - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £28.75 £30.59 £38.00
% change year-on-year -6.02% -19.50% +13.43%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South London over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South London

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Azure

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 25 September 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 +9 20 £528 +38.50% 8
Bromley -5 4 £713 +23.91% 10
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 - - 10
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 12 (38.71%) Confluence
2 10 (32.26%) nginx
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.23%) IIS
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) AWS
2 17 (54.84%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon S3
3 10 (32.26%) AWS KMS
3 10 (32.26%) Route 53
3 10 (32.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (25.81%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
1 10 (32.26%) Firewall
1 10 (32.26%) FTP
1 10 (32.26%) HTTP
1 10 (32.26%) IMAP
1 10 (32.26%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (32.26%) SMTP
1 10 (32.26%) SSH
2 3 (9.68%) LAN
2 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.68%) WAN
2 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.23%) Skype
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (32.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (32.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Jenkins
2 13 (41.94%) Git
3 12 (38.71%) JIRA
4 10 (32.26%) Vagrant
5 2 (6.45%) GitLab
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (41.94%) Public Sector
3 11 (35.48%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (9.68%) Games
7 2 (6.45%) Banking
7 2 (6.45%) Finance
7 2 (6.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (32.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (32.26%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (25.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Exchange Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) LDAP
2 5 (16.13%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) pytest
4 1 (3.23%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (3.23%) Great Expectations
4 1 (3.23%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Replication
2 6 (19.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) VMS
1 11 (35.48%) Windows
2 10 (32.26%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.45%) Android
4 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 16 (51.61%) DevOps
3 11 (35.48%) Cloud Security
4 10 (32.26%) Change Management
4 10 (32.26%) Configuration Management
4 10 (32.26%) Patch Management
4 10 (32.26%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (32.26%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (22.58%) Microservices
7 6 (19.35%) Agile
7 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.13%) CQRS
8 5 (16.13%) Design Patterns
8 5 (16.13%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (16.13%) TDD
9 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
9 4 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (12.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
1 13 (41.94%) SQL
2 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
3 10 (32.26%) Groovy
4 6 (19.35%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
1 19 (61.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) Azure Certification
2 13 (41.94%) Degree
3 12 (38.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Docker
2 10 (32.26%) DFS Replication
2 10 (32.26%) Dovecot
2 10 (32.26%) Postfix
2 10 (32.26%) Squid
3 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Grafana
2 10 (32.26%) Nessus
2 10 (32.26%) Prometheus
2 10 (32.26%) Proxmox
2 10 (32.26%) Terraform
3 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.23%) Ambari
5 1 (3.23%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) SCCM
5 1 (3.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) ServiceNow
2 10 (32.26%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Apple
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.23%) Remedy