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 £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 335 323
Rank change year-on-year +38 -12 +79
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 39 58 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.28% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 47 112
10th Percentile £355 £395 £450
25th Percentile £400 £503 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.87% +21.05%
75th Percentile £594 £644 £650
90th Percentile £638 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +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 11,786 18,942 22,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.49% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,550 15,489
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,258 1,140
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.72 £17.86
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +115.78%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%

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 9 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 9 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 +22 16 £606 -3.00% 8
North of England +15 9 £563 +18.42% 5
South West +42 7 £370 -45.19% 4
North West +14 7 £575 +21.05% 2
Scotland +18 3 £500 +33.33% 3
West Midlands +9 3 £588 +1.29% 1
Midlands +4 3 £588 +1.29% 3
Yorkshire +9 2 £525 +50.00% 1
East of England +34 1 £438 -27.08% 2
Azure Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (46.15%) C#
3 16 (41.03%) DevOps
4 15 (38.46%) .NET
4 15 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (35.90%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (35.90%) Java
5 14 (35.90%) Test Automation
6 13 (33.33%) Python
6 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 12 (30.77%) Agile
8 10 (25.64%) Finance
8 10 (25.64%) Azure API Management
8 10 (25.64%) Public Sector
9 9 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
9 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
9 9 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (23.08%) Microservices
10 8 (20.51%) Node.js
10 8 (20.51%) SAP
10 8 (20.51%) CSS
10 8 (20.51%) HTML
10 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (20.51%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (20.51%) Serverless
10 8 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
11 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
11 7 (17.95%) Manufacturing

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 (10.26%) Camunda
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Azure API Management
4 9 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (20.51%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (20.51%) Serverless
6 7 (17.95%) AWS
7 6 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (15.38%) GCP
8 4 (10.26%) Azure AKS
8 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
8 4 (10.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (10.26%) GitHub
9 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
10 2 (5.13%) Azure App Service
10 2 (5.13%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (5.13%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) DB2
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) Parquet
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) QlikView
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Selenium
2 5 (12.82%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) JUnit
3 1 (2.56%) Mockito
3 1 (2.56%) Postman
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
1 10 (25.64%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Electronics
3 7 (17.95%) Manufacturing
3 7 (17.95%) Marketing
3 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) .NET
2 8 (20.51%) CSS
2 8 (20.51%) HTML
2 8 (20.51%) Node.js
3 7 (17.95%) React
4 5 (12.82%) ADO
5 3 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.69%) Express.js
5 3 (7.69%) REST
5 3 (7.69%) RESTful
6 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (2.56%) OAuth
7 1 (2.56%) OpenID
7 1 (2.56%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.82%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) FMCG
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) DevOps
2 15 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (35.90%) Test Automation
4 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.77%) Agile
6 9 (23.08%) Microservices
7 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (17.95%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (17.95%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (17.95%) Programme Management
8 7 (17.95%) Software Delivery
8 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
8 7 (17.95%) TDD
8 7 (17.95%) User Experience
8 7 (17.95%) Web Development
9 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
9 6 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) C#
2 14 (35.90%) Java
3 13 (33.33%) Python
4 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.82%) SQL
6 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.13%) Bicep
7 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) HL7
1 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) SAP
2 6 (15.38%) Google
2 6 (15.38%) Virgin Media
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Spotify
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Snow