Azure Blueprints Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 557 568
Rank change year-on-year -102 +11 +80
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 15 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.012% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £519 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.39%
75th Percentile £617 - £688
90th Percentile £630 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,772 8,431 9,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.61% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 5,662 6,398
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.74% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 181 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £48.45 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.39% -14.77% -1.83%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +6.12%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Blueprints job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Blueprints
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Blueprints over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Top 6 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 Blueprints within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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 -97 14 £585 - 3
London - 9 £585 - 2
Work from Home -61 7 £585 - 2
UK excluding London -92 5 £630 - 1
North of England - 5 £630 - 1
North West - 5 £630 - 1

Azure Blueprints
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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) GCP
4 5 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (33.33%) Serverless
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (26.67%) AWS KMS
5 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (26.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
1 5 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Security Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Security Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Enterprise Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Governance Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (26.67%) CMDB
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (6.67%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) RBAC
2 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (60.00%) DevOps
3 9 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
3 9 (60.00%) SIEM
3 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (53.33%) Configuration Management
4 8 (53.33%) Key Management
4 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
4 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
5 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 5 (33.33%) Security Architecture
6 5 (33.33%) SOAR
6 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Bicep
2 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (46.67%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (40.00%) CISSP
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) CISM
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) ISSAP
6 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (6.67%) CCSP
6 1 (6.67%) CISA
6 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.67%) GCIH
6 1 (6.67%) GIAC
6 1 (6.67%) GSEC
6 1 (6.67%) IBM Certification
6 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
2 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) Google
3 4 (26.67%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (26.67%) Okta
3 4 (26.67%) Qualys
3 4 (26.67%) Rapid7
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 4 (26.67%) Tenable
4 3 (20.00%) TOWER Software
5 1 (6.67%) Databricks
5 1 (6.67%) IBM