Azure App Service Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure App Service
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure App Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 357 405
Rank change year-on-year -8 +48 +84
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 4 15 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.086% 0.084%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.078% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £408 £483 £556
25th Percentile £419 £516 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £619
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% -5.05% -1.00%
75th Percentile £506 £634 £647
90th Percentile £563 £644 £665
UK median daily rate £450 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% -

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 5,102 4,905 6,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.51% 28.01% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,449 3,146 4,870
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £378 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 132 239
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.38 £14.21
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.27 £33.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +42.00% +16.20%
75th Percentile £35.34 £68.98 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £34.47 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.69% +4.44% +49.46%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure App Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure App Service job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure App Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure App Service

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 3 October 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 3 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
Midlands -13 3 £450 -25.00%
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
South East +7 1 £400 - 1
West Midlands -9 1 £600 -
Azure App Service
UK

Azure App Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Twilio
3 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Express.js
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) FHIR
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HL7
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On