Azure Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Microsoft Azure
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 13 14 46
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 23.21% 21.54% 30.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.43% 60.87% 65.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 44
10th Percentile £369 - £481
25th Percentile £503 £450 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -6.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £585 £563 £588
90th Percentile - £585 -
East London median daily rate £540 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
East London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Cloud Skills
Tower Hamlets

Azure 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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 28 23 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 50.00% 35.38% 45.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 68
10th Percentile £378 - £489
25th Percentile £450 £450 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -6.09% -5.74%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £591
90th Percentile £695 £612 £706
East London median daily rate £540 £455 £550
% change year-on-year +18.68% -17.27% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.89 - -
25th Percentile £34.49 - -
Median hourly rate £43.83 - -
75th Percentile £53.16 - -
90th Percentile £58.77 - -
East London median hourly rate £43.83 - -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Azure job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Tower Hamlets

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Canary Wharf 0 13 £540 - 2
Azure
East London

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 1 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (7.69%) Camunda
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Azure AI
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Figma
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) JMeter
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 1 (7.69%) eggPlant
4 1 (7.69%) Gerrit
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (7.69%) NeoLoad
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Backend Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) JSON
1 4 (30.77%) XML
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) JPA
2 3 (23.08%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) Sass
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (7.69%) CSS3
4 1 (7.69%) Drools
4 1 (7.69%) HTML5
4 1 (7.69%) JMS
4 1 (7.69%) JSP
4 1 (7.69%) OSGi
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) PKI
1 2 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
5 5 (38.46%) Microservices
6 4 (30.77%) BDD
6 4 (30.77%) TDD
7 3 (23.08%) AI
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 3 (23.08%) Software Delivery
8 2 (15.38%) Architecture Governance
8 2 (15.38%) Data Science
8 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (15.38%) Key Management
8 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
8 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
1 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kibana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) logstash
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Calypso
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Murex
3 1 (7.69%) SAP