Azure Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 344 343
Rank change year-on-year +52 -1 +55
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 44 55 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.26% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.29% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 45 107
10th Percentile £355 £388 £440
25th Percentile £412 £506 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £580 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +3.11% +15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile - £683 £688
UK median daily rate £563 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -3.02% +0.87% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
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 Developer 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
South East +37 22 £625 - 10
North of England +17 9 £563 +18.42% 7
South West +51 7 £370 -45.19%
North West +18 7 £575 +21.05% 2
Scotland +15 3 £500 +33.33%
Midlands +15 2 £588 +1.29% 4
West Midlands +7 2 £588 +1.29% 2
Yorkshire +6 2 £525 +50.00% 2
East of England +30 1 £438 -27.08% 3
Azure Developer
UK

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (47.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 20 (45.45%) DevOps
4 18 (40.91%) Python
5 17 (38.64%) C#
5 17 (38.64%) Java
6 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
7 15 (34.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (34.09%) Agile
7 15 (34.09%) Test Automation
8 14 (31.82%) Microservices
8 14 (31.82%) .NET
8 14 (31.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (27.27%) Serverless
11 11 (25.00%) React
12 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
12 10 (22.73%) Azure API Management
13 9 (20.45%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
13 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
13 9 (20.45%) Finance
13 9 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (20.45%) Node.js
13 9 (20.45%) Git
13 9 (20.45%) Selenium
14 8 (18.18%) SAP
14 8 (18.18%) CSS
14 8 (18.18%) HTML
14 8 (18.18%) Active Directory

Azure Developer Skill Set
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 4 (9.09%) Camunda
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (31.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 13 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (27.27%) Serverless
6 10 (22.73%) Azure API Management
7 9 (20.45%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (18.18%) Azure Functions
8 8 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (15.91%) AWS
10 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
10 6 (13.64%) GCP
11 4 (9.09%) Azure AKS
11 4 (9.09%) GitHub
12 3 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
14 1 (2.27%) Azure App Service
14 1 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
14 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.55%) Big Data
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.27%) DB2
6 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.27%) Parquet
6 1 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (2.27%) QlikView
6 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Git
1 9 (20.45%) Selenium
2 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) JUnit
2 1 (2.27%) Mockito
2 1 (2.27%) Postman
General
1 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
2 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 7 (15.91%) Electronics
4 7 (15.91%) Manufacturing
4 7 (15.91%) Marketing
5 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) .NET
2 11 (25.00%) React
3 9 (20.45%) Node.js
4 8 (18.18%) CSS
4 8 (18.18%) HTML
5 6 (13.64%) ADO
6 3 (6.82%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.82%) RESTful
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.55%) Express.js
7 2 (4.55%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.55%) REST
8 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
8 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
8 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
8 1 (2.27%) JSON
8 1 (2.27%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (2.27%) SAML
8 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.64%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) FMCG
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (45.45%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 15 (34.09%) Agile
4 15 (34.09%) Test Automation
5 14 (31.82%) Microservices
6 9 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 7 (15.91%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (15.91%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (15.91%) Programme Management
8 7 (15.91%) SDLC
8 7 (15.91%) Software Delivery
8 7 (15.91%) TDD
8 7 (15.91%) User Experience
8 7 (15.91%) Web Development
9 6 (13.64%) Computer Science
9 6 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) Python
2 17 (38.64%) C#
2 17 (38.64%) Java
3 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.64%) SQL
5 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Azure Certification
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) SAP
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Google
3 6 (13.64%) Virgin Media
4 2 (4.55%) Databricks
4 2 (4.55%) Spotify
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Snow