Azure Event Grid Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Event Grid skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 517 541
Rank change year-on-year -39 +24 +176
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 28 27 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.079% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.22% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 47
10th Percentile £414 £531 £450
25th Percentile £472 £538 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +1.96% +21.43%
75th Percentile £547 £675 £714
90th Percentile £629 - £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -21.92% +8.33% +14.29%

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 14,018 12,403 15,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.07% 36.28% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,570 8,250 11,053
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 172 273
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.19 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £76.84 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.38% +26.19% +7.69%

Azure Event Grid
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Event Grid job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Event Grid over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Event Grid in the UK

Azure Event Grid
Top 9 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 Event Grid within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 -28 26 £504 -22.50% 6
London -13 18 £500 -23.08% 2
UK excluding London -34 7 £508 -21.92% 4
Work from Home -4 6 £425 -26.09% 2
South East -24 2 £508 -21.92% 3
North West - 2 £450 -
East of England - 2 £725 -
North of England - 2 £450 -
South West -7 1 £550 -

Azure Event Grid
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:

Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (82.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 22 (78.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 17 (60.71%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (53.57%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (53.57%) Serverless
6 14 (50.00%) Azure Functions
7 13 (46.43%) Entra ID
8 12 (42.86%) GitHub
9 11 (39.29%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (32.14%) Azure AKS
11 9 (32.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (28.57%) Azure API Management
12 8 (28.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 8 (28.57%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (21.43%) Azure App Service
14 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Postman
2 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Electronics
3 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Integration Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.71%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Backend Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (7.14%) DBA
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Integration Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) .NET
2 11 (39.29%) .NET Core
3 9 (32.14%) Node.js
4 8 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 8 (28.57%) PyTorch
4 8 (28.57%) React
4 8 (28.57%) TensorFlow
5 6 (21.43%) RESTful
6 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 4 (14.29%) JSON
6 4 (14.29%) REST
6 4 (14.29%) XML
6 4 (14.29%) XSLT
7 3 (10.71%) ARM Templates
7 3 (10.71%) OAuth
7 3 (10.71%) SOAP
8 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
8 2 (7.14%) Swagger
8 2 (7.14%) WSDL
8 2 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) AI Agents
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 20 (71.43%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Microservices
4 12 (42.86%) Agile
4 12 (42.86%) Analytics
5 10 (35.71%) API Management
6 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (28.57%) AI
7 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
8 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 7 (25.00%) RBAC
9 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (17.86%) Compliance Management
10 5 (17.86%) Data Encryption
10 5 (17.86%) Data Science
10 5 (17.86%) Deep Learning
10 5 (17.86%) ETL
10 5 (17.86%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) C#
2 14 (50.00%) Bicep
2 14 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
4 10 (35.71%) Python
5 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NCSC
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Terraform
2 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (32.14%) Databricks
3 8 (28.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media