Azure Developer Contracts

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the UK 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 436 412 418
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 84 172 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.39% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.43% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 136 257
10th Percentile £369 £414 £429
25th Percentile £448 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +0.87% +6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £662 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £580 £563
% change year-on-year -3.02% +3.11% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer.

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
England -23 70 £568 -2.16% 35
UK excluding London +52 44 £563 -3.02% 25
Work from Home -12 34 £625 +13.64% 27
London -24 27 £557 -4.38% 15
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (40.48%) DevOps
3 33 (39.29%) C#
3 33 (39.29%) .NET
4 27 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (30.95%) Python
5 26 (30.95%) Agile
6 24 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 23 (27.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (26.19%) SQL
9 20 (23.81%) Java
9 20 (23.81%) Microsoft
10 19 (22.62%) React
11 18 (21.43%) Finance
11 18 (21.43%) Test Automation
12 17 (20.24%) JavaScript
13 16 (19.05%) Microservices
13 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
13 16 (19.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (17.86%) Serverless
14 15 (17.86%) Git
15 14 (16.67%) HTML
15 14 (16.67%) CSS
15 14 (16.67%) Node.js
15 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
16 13 (15.48%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
17 12 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
17 12 (14.29%) SQL Server

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.76%) Camunda
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.19%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (27.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (19.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (17.86%) Serverless
6 13 (15.48%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (14.29%) Azure API Management
8 11 (13.10%) Azure Functions
8 11 (13.10%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (13.10%) Entra ID
9 10 (11.90%) AWS
10 9 (10.71%) GCP
11 6 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (5.95%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
13 4 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (4.76%) GitHub
13 4 (4.76%) PowerApps
14 3 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.10%) NoSQL
2 11 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.57%) Power BI
5 2 (2.38%) Big Data
5 2 (2.38%) QlikView
5 2 (2.38%) Redis
6 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.19%) DB2
6 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.19%) Parquet
6 1 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Git
2 9 (10.71%) Selenium
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) MSTest
3 2 (2.38%) NUnit
3 2 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.19%) GitLab
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
4 1 (1.19%) JUnit
4 1 (1.19%) Mockito
4 1 (1.19%) Postman
4 1 (1.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (21.43%) Finance
2 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 9 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 8 (9.52%) Electronics
5 8 (9.52%) Marketing
6 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.29%) .NET
2 19 (22.62%) React
3 14 (16.67%) CSS
3 14 (16.67%) HTML
3 14 (16.67%) Node.js
4 10 (11.90%) REST
5 9 (10.71%) .NET Core
5 9 (10.71%) Web Services
6 8 (9.52%) ADO
7 7 (8.33%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 6 (7.14%) RESTful
9 5 (5.95%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (4.76%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.76%) WCF
11 3 (3.57%) JSON
11 3 (3.57%) Middleware
11 3 (3.57%) Vue
11 3 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Clustering
6 1 (1.19%) FMCG
6 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) IoT
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
1 2 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (1.19%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.48%) DevOps
2 27 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (30.95%) Agile
4 24 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 18 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 16 (19.05%) Microservices
7 12 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (14.29%) Web Development
8 11 (13.10%) API Development
8 11 (13.10%) TDD
8 11 (13.10%) User Experience
9 10 (11.90%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.71%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (10.71%) SDLC
10 9 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (10.71%) Unit Testing
11 8 (9.52%) Digital Marketing
11 8 (9.52%) Event-Driven
11 8 (9.52%) OO
11 8 (9.52%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.29%) C#
2 26 (30.95%) Python
3 22 (26.19%) SQL
4 20 (23.81%) Java
5 17 (20.24%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.57%) Bicep
9 2 (2.38%) ActionScript
9 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Degree
2 8 (9.52%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.38%) MCPD
5 2 (2.38%) MCSD
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
4 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.29%) SAP
3 9 (10.71%) Google
4 6 (7.14%) Virgin Media
5 5 (5.95%) Databricks
6 3 (3.57%) Oracle
6 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.38%) Infor
7 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.38%) Spotify
8 1 (1.19%) Informatica
8 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.19%) Snow