Azure Event Grid Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Azure Event Grid skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 129 107
Rank change year-on-year -2 -22 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 1 1 36
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.043% 0.048% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.16% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 31
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £650
75th Percentile - - £716
90th Percentile - - £775
England median daily rate £504 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -22.50% +1.96% +21.43%

All Cloud Skills
South West

Azure Event Grid 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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 672 612 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.66% 29.42% 29.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 409 673
10th Percentile £250 £247 £217
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £700
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 34
10th Percentile - £13.10 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.83 £15.09
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%
75th Percentile £47.41 £68.75 £33.00
90th Percentile £70.09 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +11.11%

Azure Event Grid
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Event Grid relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Azure Event Grid job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure Event Grid.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Event Grid within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Somerset - 1 £550 - 2
Azure Event Grid
England

Azure Event Grid
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST