Azure App Service Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure App Service
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure App Service skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure App Service over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 392 435
Rank change year-on-year +63 +43 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 5 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.053% 0.088%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 16
10th Percentile £415 £327 -
25th Percentile £438 £340 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £607 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +12.93% -6.11%
75th Percentile £488 £611 £600
90th Percentile £555 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £594 £600
% change year-on-year +1.05% -1.04% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,082 5,368 7,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.93% 25.98% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 3,804 5,903
10th Percentile £237 £213 £248
25th Percentile £388 £370 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 259 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%
75th Percentile £33.10 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £61.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure App Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure App Service in the UK excluding London

Azure App Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure App Service in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure App Service in the UK excluding London

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure App Service in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure App Service in the UK excluding London

Azure App Service
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South West +41 2 £450 +28.57% 2
North of England +18 2 £450 -
North West +16 2 £450 -
South East - 2 £400 - 8
West Midlands +9 1 £600 -1.15%
Midlands +6 1 £600 -1.15%
Azure App Service
UK

Azure App Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Code Coverage
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft