Azure Event Grid Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Event Grid skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 117 144
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +41
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.22% 0.036%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.73% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £500 £453 -
25th Percentile £501 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% - -
75th Percentile £508 £494 -
90th Percentile £510 £498 -
South East median daily rate £504 £475 £588
% change year-on-year +6.05% -19.15% +11.90%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 637 685 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.75% 30.64% 28.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 465 564
10th Percentile £250 £363 £232
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £650 £663 £725
South East median daily rate £488 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 19
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £17.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.39 £18.88
Median hourly rate £17.19 £35.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -51.59% +9.91% +53.81%
75th Percentile £32.05 £60.72 £45.75
90th Percentile £42.71 £64.73 £66.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -53.53% +48.62% +30.63%

Azure Event Grid
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure Event Grid as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Event Grid in the Thames Valley

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Event Grid.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid
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 Event Grid 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 +15 3 £504 +6.05% 1
Azure Event Grid
South East

Azure Event Grid
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Snow