Azure Service Fabric Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Service Fabric
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Service Fabric skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 545 592
Rank change year-on-year -35 +47 +187
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Fabric 9 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.027% 0.021%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.064% 0.073% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £512 £509 £389
25th Percentile £520 £514 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £581 £537 £547
90th Percentile - £539 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Service Fabric 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 14,088 12,279 15,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.96% 36.23% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,634 8,171 10,802
10th Percentile £306 £313 £295
25th Percentile £406 £413 £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 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 175 264
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 £77.25 £68.75 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% +15.14% +6.54%

Azure Service Fabric
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Service Fabric job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Service Fabric
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Service Fabric
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Service Fabric
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 Service Fabric within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 -36 9 £575 +10.58% 49
London -2 7 £575 +10.58% 9
Work from Home -3 2 £527 -1.55% 7
UK excluding London -44 2 - - 46
North of England -51 2 - - 9
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4

Azure Service Fabric
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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Entra ID
2 7 (77.78%) PaaS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) ARM Templates
1 7 (77.78%) Entity Framework
1 7 (77.78%) YAML
2 4 (44.44%) SailPoint
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) B2C
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) VB
3 1 (11.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI