Azure Developer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 85 120
Rank change year-on-year -19 +35 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 6 37 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 1.65% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.81% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 28 25
10th Percentile £406 £506 £559
25th Percentile £434 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £750
90th Percentile £588 £651 -
South East median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.96% +8.98%

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 1,498 2,042 2,616
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 91.32% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 1,146 1,760
10th Percentile £250 £258 £250
25th Percentile £380 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +0.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £615
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 101 96
10th Percentile £14.20 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £27.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £49.07
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +19.21% +173.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £71.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.40 £90.00 £74.90
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.43 £50.71
% change year-on-year -56.20% +13.24% +111.29%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Developer job vacancies 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 19 September 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 19 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
Berkshire -13 6 £525 -16.00%
Azure Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) React
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) SOLID
3 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (33.33%) Virgin Media
3 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (33.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 2 (33.33%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) HL7
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Validation

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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Twilio
4 1 (16.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Express.js
3 1 (16.67%) FHIR
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) LangChain
3 1 (16.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) SOLID
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Inmon Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) HL7
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Snow