Azure Developer Contracts

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 406 431
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 -61
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 180 309 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.53% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.56% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 256 416
10th Percentile £409 £428 £406
25th Percentile £500 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £573 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +6.51% +10.26%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £563 £481
% change year-on-year +3.11% +16.88% +8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

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 12 May 2024.

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 14 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 12 May 2024. 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 +9 158 £580 +0.87% 33
London +47 95 £550 -8.33% 9
Work from Home +50 90 £550 -3.51% 32
UK excluding London -1 58 £580 +3.11% 24
South East +2 34 £625 +4.17% 6
North of England -4 11 £475 -9.52% 7
Midlands +26 9 £580 +22.11% 10
West Midlands +13 9 £580 +22.11% 9
North West +14 6 £475 -9.52% 4
Yorkshire +1 4 £350 -30.00% 2
South West 0 2 £675 +24.42% 3
Scotland +39 1 £375 -37.50%
North East +15 1 - - 1
East of England +7 1 £600 -

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Azure
2 108 (60.00%) DevOps
3 96 (53.33%) C#
4 92 (51.11%) .NET
5 81 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (41.67%) Agile
7 69 (38.33%) CI/CD
8 59 (32.78%) Microsoft
9 58 (32.22%) SQL Server
10 52 (28.89%) Full Stack Development
11 47 (26.11%) Git
12 42 (23.33%) React
13 41 (22.78%) Serverless
13 41 (22.78%) Active Directory
14 40 (22.22%) Finance
14 40 (22.22%) Azure Functions
15 39 (21.67%) Entra ID
16 38 (21.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 37 (20.56%) Product Ownership
17 37 (20.56%) PowerShell
17 37 (20.56%) SQL
18 35 (19.44%) Scrum
18 35 (19.44%) Microservices
18 35 (19.44%) Azure Service Bus
19 33 (18.33%) Python
20 32 (17.78%) .NET Framework
20 32 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
21 31 (17.22%) Azure Monitor
22 30 (16.67%) XML
23 27 (15.00%) .NET Core

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 8 (4.44%) CMS
2 5 (2.78%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.78%) Kentico
3 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.11%) Endur
2 2 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) Azure
2 81 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (22.78%) Serverless
4 40 (22.22%) Azure Functions
5 39 (21.67%) Entra ID
6 38 (21.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 35 (19.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 32 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (17.22%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (11.67%) Azure API Management
12 15 (8.33%) Power Platform
13 9 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (4.44%) PaaS
15 7 (3.89%) Azure App Service
16 6 (3.33%) Azure AKS
16 6 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
17 4 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
17 4 (2.22%) Azure Storage
17 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (32.22%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.44%) NoSQL
3 15 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.56%) Power BI
5 7 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.33%) Redis
6 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.11%) Big Data
8 2 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.11%) GIS
8 2 (1.11%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.11%) OLTP
8 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (26.11%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.89%) Selenium
4 5 (2.78%) SpecFlow
4 5 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.11%) Postman
5 2 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) git-flow
6 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.56%) Moq
6 1 (0.56%) MSTest
6 1 (0.56%) NUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Pylint
6 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (22.22%) Finance
2 23 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.11%) Marketing
6 7 (3.89%) Law
7 5 (2.78%) Banking
7 5 (2.78%) Electronics
7 5 (2.78%) Front Office
7 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.22%) Back Office
9 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.67%) Music Industry
10 2 (1.11%) Danish Language
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) International Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (51.11%) .NET
2 42 (23.33%) React
3 32 (17.78%) .NET Framework
4 30 (16.67%) XML
5 27 (15.00%) .NET Core
6 22 (12.22%) HTML
7 20 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 19 (10.56%) CSS
9 12 (6.67%) REST
10 11 (6.11%) ASP.NET
10 11 (6.11%) GraphQL
11 9 (5.00%) ARM Templates
11 9 (5.00%) YAML
12 8 (4.44%) Node.js
13 7 (3.89%) Entity Framework
13 7 (3.89%) Swagger
14 6 (3.33%) Kafka
15 5 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (2.78%) Express.js
15 5 (2.78%) koa
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.56%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.11%) Contactless
4 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.11%) Tandem
5 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.56%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.56%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.78%) Linux
2 3 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (60.00%) DevOps
2 75 (41.67%) Agile
3 69 (38.33%) CI/CD
4 52 (28.89%) Full Stack Development
5 35 (19.44%) Microservices
5 35 (19.44%) Scrum
6 25 (13.89%) B2C
6 25 (13.89%) SDLC
7 23 (12.78%) Test Automation
7 23 (12.78%) Unit Testing
8 21 (11.67%) API Management
9 19 (10.56%) TDD
10 18 (10.00%) Product Backlog
11 17 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (8.33%) Clean Code
12 15 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.33%) SOLID
13 14 (7.78%) Change Management
14 13 (7.22%) OO
Programming Languages
1 96 (53.33%) C#
2 37 (20.56%) PowerShell
2 37 (20.56%) SQL
3 33 (18.33%) Python
4 25 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.44%) Bicep
5 17 (9.44%) Java
5 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.67%) C
7 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.56%) Go
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.11%) Degree
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.22%) WCAG
2 3 (1.67%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (22.78%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.00%) Docker
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.78%) Terraform
2 13 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.11%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Packer
4 1 (0.56%) Puppet
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (32.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.78%) SAP
3 3 (1.67%) Databricks
4 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.56%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.56%) mParticle
4 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.56%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media