Azure App Service Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure App Service
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure App Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 509 539
Rank change year-on-year -47 +30 +164
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 30 44 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.36% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 31
10th Percentile £394 £479 £385
25th Percentile £413 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% +9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £734
90th Percentile £583 £695 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £538 £694
% change year-on-year -16.28% -22.52% +14.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,080 12,304 15,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.24% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,624 8,185 10,792
10th Percentile £308 £313 £294
25th Percentile £406 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 175 264
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.59 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.13 £68.75 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.28 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.56% +15.14% +6.54%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure App Service job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure App Service over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure App Service in the UK

Azure App Service
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure App Service.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure App Service

Azure App Service
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 December 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
England -42 22 £500 -23.08% 114
London -21 21 £500 -23.08% 14
Work from Home +9 11 £450 -23.40% 8
UK excluding London -49 2 £450 -16.28% 112
Wales -2 1 - - 3
Midlands -44 1 £450 -25.00% 22
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 8

Azure App Service
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (63.33%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (60.00%) Azure Functions
3 18 (60.00%) Serverless
4 16 (53.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 16 (53.33%) Entra ID
5 14 (46.67%) GitHub
6 13 (43.33%) Azure AKS
6 13 (43.33%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (36.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (36.67%) Azure Storage
9 9 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (26.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 8 (26.67%) PaaS
11 7 (23.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Firewall
1 6 (20.00%) VPN
2 5 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.67%) Big Data
5 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) JUnit
2 5 (16.67%) Mockito
3 4 (13.33%) Liquibase
4 1 (3.33%) Pylint
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Backend Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Technical Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
7 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Data Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (3.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) .NET
2 7 (23.33%) .NET Core
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (23.33%) Node.js
2 7 (23.33%) REST
3 6 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 6 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 6 (20.00%) React
3 6 (20.00%) TensorFlow
4 5 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 5 (16.67%) RESTful
4 5 (16.67%) SOAP
4 5 (16.67%) WireMock
5 4 (13.33%) Web Services
6 3 (10.00%) Spring
7 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.67%) Java EE
7 2 (6.67%) RAML
7 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (66.67%) DevOps
3 19 (63.33%) Analytics
4 15 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 13 (43.33%) Microservices
6 12 (40.00%) Agile
7 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (33.33%) AI
8 10 (33.33%) Observability
9 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (26.67%) Log Analytics
11 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
11 7 (23.33%) RBAC
11 7 (23.33%) Task Automation
12 6 (20.00%) API Management
12 6 (20.00%) Data Science
12 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
13 5 (16.67%) CQRS
13 5 (16.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) C#
3 11 (36.67%) Python
4 9 (30.00%) Bicep
4 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (20.00%) Java
5 6 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (16.67%) Bash
6 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) MCP
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (53.33%) Docker
2 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (43.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (36.67%) Databricks
3 8 (26.67%) OpenAI