Azure App Service Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure App Service
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure App Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 113 126
Rank change year-on-year -38 +13 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.061% 0.091%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.15% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £515 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £400 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

Azure App Service 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 898 656 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.29% 39.85% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 393 458
10th Percentile £342 £242 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 19 16
10th Percentile £17.55 £14.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £20.39
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.87 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +297.46% -46.85% +9.91%
75th Percentile £89.13 £32.18 £60.72
90th Percentile £110.48 £42.02 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £18.82 £42.50
% change year-on-year +205.53% -55.72% +57.41%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure App Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Azure App Service job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure App Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure App Service

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure App Service in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure App Service in the Thames Valley

Azure App Service
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure App Service within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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 -24 7 £500 +25.00% 2
Azure App Service
South East

Azure App Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) Azure API Management
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Storage
2 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) REST
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Core
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
2 5 (71.43%) Entity Framework
2 5 (71.43%) OAuth
2 5 (71.43%) OpenID
2 5 (71.43%) SAML
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) YAML
5 1 (14.29%) JSON
5 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 7 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 7 (100.00%) RBAC
2 5 (71.43%) B2C
2 5 (71.43%) Code Coverage
2 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) API Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
3 3 (42.86%) MLOps
3 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Management
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Bicep
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) VMware