Azure Event Grid Contracts

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure Event Grid skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Event Grid over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 562 640
Rank change year-on-year +66 +78 +129
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 24 20 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.046% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.14% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 68
10th Percentile £469 £413 £450
25th Percentile £497 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £568
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -4.85% +0.89%
75th Percentile £703 £575 £625
90th Percentile £760 £634 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +1.01%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Event Grid 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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure Event Grid
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Event Grid as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Event Grid in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Event Grid in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Event Grid in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Event Grid 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 +57 19 £575 +6.73% 53
Work from Home +46 13 £650 +30.00% 48
London +35 11 £575 +5.50% 19
UK excluding London +67 8 £575 +27.78% 39
South East +48 4 £538 +13.16% 11
South West +47 2 £825 +135.71% 2
East of England - 2 £713 - 2
Midlands +22 1 £575 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 2

Azure Event Grid
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 3 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (75.00%) Serverless
3 14 (58.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 14 (58.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 13 (54.17%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (50.00%) Azure Functions
6 9 (37.50%) Azure API Management
6 9 (37.50%) Entra ID
7 7 (29.17%) Azure AKS
7 7 (29.17%) PaaS
8 6 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (25.00%) IaaS
8 6 (25.00%) SaaS
9 5 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (16.67%) AWS
10 4 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JUnit
1 2 (8.33%) Maven
1 2 (8.33%) Mockito
1 2 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Moq
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Architect
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Architect
3 6 (25.00%) Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (16.67%) Senior
6 3 (12.50%) Integration Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Lead
6 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Consultant
7 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Integration Consultant
7 2 (8.33%) React Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
8 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) .NET
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
3 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
3 5 (20.83%) OAuth
4 4 (16.67%) ARM Templates
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (16.67%) YAML
5 3 (12.50%) OpenAPI
5 3 (12.50%) OpenID
5 3 (12.50%) React
5 3 (12.50%) RESTful
5 3 (12.50%) SAML
5 3 (12.50%) Swagger
6 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.33%) JSON
6 2 (8.33%) SOAP
6 2 (8.33%) Spring
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (8.33%) XML
6 2 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (12.50%) Reinsurance
4 2 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) IoT
5 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
1 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) API Management
5 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.67%) Cost Management
7 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 4 (16.67%) High Availability
7 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 3 (12.50%) Clean Code
8 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) C#
2 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 6 (25.00%) Bicep
4 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (16.67%) Java
6 3 (12.50%) Python
7 2 (8.33%) Bash
7 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
1 4 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Snow