Azure Blueprints Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Blueprints over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 - 460
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.042% - 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.98%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £751 £650 £500
% change year-on-year +15.54% +30.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Azure Blueprints falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK excluding London

Azure Blueprints
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK excluding London

Azure Blueprints
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 Blueprints within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
East of England - 1 £751 -
Azure Blueprints
UK

Azure Blueprints
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft