Azure Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 123 114
Rank change year-on-year +43 -9 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 22 22 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.46% 0.82% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.88% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 34
10th Percentile £411 £506 £525
25th Percentile £500 £575 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.11%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £698
90th Percentile - £688 £750
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +15.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the Thames Valley

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the Thames Valley

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the Thames Valley

Azure Developer
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 Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +33 21 £625 -3.85%
Buckinghamshire +14 1 £545 -9.17%
Azure Developer
South East

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (72.73%) Python
3 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 15 (68.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (59.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 13 (59.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (50.00%) React
6 10 (45.45%) Agile
6 10 (45.45%) Serverless
7 9 (40.91%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
7 9 (40.91%) Java
7 9 (40.91%) Selenium
8 8 (36.36%) Git
8 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
8 8 (36.36%) Microservices
8 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
8 8 (36.36%) Azure API Management
8 8 (36.36%) Azure Functions
8 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (31.82%) Product Ownership
9 7 (31.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (27.27%) Product Backlog
10 6 (27.27%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (27.27%) SDLC
10 6 (27.27%) ADO
10 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
10 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
10 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
11 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (59.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 10 (45.45%) Serverless
5 9 (40.91%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (36.36%) Azure API Management
6 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (36.36%) Azure Functions
7 7 (31.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
9 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
10 2 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
11 1 (4.55%) PaaS
11 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) Parquet
4 1 (4.55%) Redis
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Selenium
2 8 (36.36%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) React
2 6 (27.27%) ADO
3 3 (13.64%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) OpenID
5 1 (4.55%) Prisma
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) Redux
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Product Ownership
2 6 (27.27%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
4 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
5 8 (36.36%) Microservices
5 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 6 (27.27%) Product Backlog
6 6 (27.27%) SDLC
6 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
7 3 (13.64%) API Development
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (9.09%) Change Management
8 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (9.09%) Release Management
8 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (4.55%) API Design
9 1 (4.55%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (4.55%) Front End Development
9 1 (4.55%) Identity Access Management
9 1 (4.55%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Spotify
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Snow