Azure Contracts

Microsoft Azure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,653 5,987 10,467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.00% 13.54% 16.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.01% 41.59% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 4,325 7,666
10th Percentile £350 £341 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -5.87% +1.41%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 57 116
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.79 £17.72
25th Percentile £24.00 £22.30 £24.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -35.78% +3.81%
75th Percentile £72.50 £59.95 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -36.00% -13.04% +28.49%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure 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 11,077 14,394 23,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 32.56% 37.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,768 10,193 16,888
10th Percentile £313 £294 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £501
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.10% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 347 388
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.61 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -23.64% +30.24%
75th Percentile £41.74 £35.25 £65.19
90th Percentile £76.44 £61.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £22.16
% change year-on-year +29.80% -20.04% +19.78%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 19 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 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 0 3,877 £525 -2.78% 5,510
London +1 2,253 £550 - 3,123
Work from Home +2 1,761 £518 -1.43% 2,943
UK excluding London +3 1,751 £500 - 2,897
South East +5 491 £538 +1.65% 820
North of England +1 432 £485 -0.51% 779
North West +5 277 £500 - 456
Scotland 0 248 £475 - 222
Midlands -2 246 £500 - 412
South West -3 217 £525 +2.69% 333
West Midlands -2 190 £525 - 259
Yorkshire 0 118 £450 -5.26% 238
East of England +13 79 £580 +22.11% 229
Wales +1 67 £406 -18.75% 90
East Midlands 0 51 £475 +1.33% 147
North East +1 36 £481 -6.10% 90
Northern Ireland -15 8 £475 -15.56% 59
Isle of Man +1 2 - - 3
Channel Islands - 2 £298 -

Azure
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
1 311 (6.68%) SharePoint
2 217 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 113 (2.43%) Confluence
4 98 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 56 (1.20%) Apache
6 34 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.34%) CMS
8 14 (0.30%) IIS
9 12 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
10 11 (0.24%) SAS
10 11 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.19%) Mule
12 9 (0.19%) nginx
12 9 (0.19%) Skype for Business
12 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.15%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 107 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.43%) Trello
6 5 (0.11%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.086%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.064%) Sketch
9 1 (0.021%) 1Password
9 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 91 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.21%) Endur
5 7 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
6 6 (0.13%) Kondor
6 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.13%) SAP GTS
7 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.086%) Unica
9 3 (0.064%) Infor CloudSuite
9 3 (0.064%) Primavera
9 3 (0.064%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.043%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 1,377 (29.59%) AWS
2 839 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
3 702 (15.09%) GCP
4 635 (13.65%) Microsoft 365
5 585 (12.57%) Power Platform
6 564 (12.12%) Entra ID
7 275 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 257 (5.52%) GitHub
9 243 (5.22%) SaaS
10 227 (4.88%) Serverless
11 226 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
12 206 (4.43%) PaaS
13 198 (4.26%) PowerApps
14 178 (3.83%) IaaS
15 168 (3.61%) Azure AKS
16 165 (3.55%) Power Automate
17 153 (3.29%) Azure Functions
18 143 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
19 140 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
20 127 (2.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 379 (8.15%) Firewall
2 260 (5.59%) DNS
3 213 (4.58%) VPN
4 176 (3.78%) Network Security
5 145 (3.12%) DHCP
6 130 (2.79%) TCP/IP
7 115 (2.47%) WAN
8 77 (1.65%) HTTP
9 75 (1.61%) BGP
10 66 (1.42%) LAN
11 65 (1.40%) MPLS
12 63 (1.35%) SD-WAN
13 55 (1.18%) OSPF
14 52 (1.12%) Wireless
15 50 (1.07%) VLAN
16 46 (0.99%) SSL
17 43 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
18 38 (0.82%) SAN
19 36 (0.77%) NGFW
20 28 (0.60%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (8.47%) Power BI
2 364 (7.82%) SQL Server
3 222 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (4.60%) Data Lake
5 145 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 140 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 128 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 114 (2.45%) Big Data
9 106 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 81 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 67 (1.44%) MySQL
11 67 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 59 (1.27%) Metadata
13 57 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 55 (1.18%) Hadoop
15 53 (1.14%) Tableau
16 50 (1.07%) Redis
17 41 (0.88%) Oracle Database
18 36 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
19 35 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 325 (6.98%) Git
2 266 (5.72%) JIRA
3 200 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 165 (3.55%) GitLab
5 71 (1.53%) Selenium
6 49 (1.05%) Postman
7 41 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 36 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 35 (0.75%) JUnit
11 33 (0.71%) JMeter
12 30 (0.64%) Maven
13 25 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.54%) ERwin
13 25 (0.54%) MSI
14 22 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
15 21 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
16 20 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 20 (0.43%) SpecFlow
16 20 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 1,230 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 902 (19.39%) Finance
3 524 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 273 (5.87%) Banking
6 120 (2.58%) Marketing
7 118 (2.54%) Telecoms
8 96 (2.06%) Retail
9 90 (1.93%) Legal
10 86 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 79 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 71 (1.53%) Front Office
13 63 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 56 (1.20%) Investment Banking
15 49 (1.05%) Law
16 44 (0.95%) Electronics
17 40 (0.86%) Back Office
17 40 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
18 39 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 829 (17.82%) Architect
2 755 (16.23%) Developer
3 494 (10.62%) Senior
4 400 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
5 328 (7.05%) Data Engineer
6 284 (6.10%) Lead
7 281 (6.04%) Analyst
8 250 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
9 230 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 212 (4.56%) Consultant
11 158 (3.40%) Azure Architect
12 149 (3.20%) Support Engineer
13 146 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 123 (2.64%) Technical Architect
15 119 (2.56%) Senior Developer
16 116 (2.49%) Data Architect
17 115 (2.47%) Security Architect
18 113 (2.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 113 (2.43%) Cloud Architect
19 107 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (9.95%) .NET
2 211 (4.53%) React
3 175 (3.76%) REST
4 162 (3.48%) HTML
5 161 (3.46%) CSS
6 154 (3.31%) Kafka
7 151 (3.25%) RESTful
8 139 (2.99%) AngularJS
9 121 (2.60%) Node.js
10 116 (2.49%) PySpark
11 104 (2.24%) JSON
12 97 (2.08%) OAuth
13 95 (2.04%) .NET Core
14 91 (1.96%) SOAP
15 86 (1.85%) Web Services
16 82 (1.76%) .NET Framework
17 71 (1.53%) ADO
18 69 (1.48%) ARM Templates
19 64 (1.38%) YAML
20 63 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 170 (3.65%) Cloud Native
2 163 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 135 (2.90%) Public Cloud
4 128 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 117 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 107 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 88 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 82 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 79 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 72 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 71 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 60 (1.29%) PKI
13 51 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 51 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 48 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 43 (0.92%) Replication
16 42 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
17 36 (0.77%) Mobile App
18 35 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
19 34 (0.73%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 654 (14.06%) Windows
2 322 (6.92%) Linux
3 305 (6.55%) Windows Server
4 123 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 94 (2.02%) Unix
6 89 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 42 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (0.71%) Android
8 33 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 31 (0.67%) VMS
9 31 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (0.64%) Ubuntu
11 25 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (0.52%) CentOS
13 21 (0.45%) AIX
14 18 (0.39%) Solaris
15 11 (0.24%) Mac OS
16 9 (0.19%) Rocky
16 9 (0.19%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,475 (31.70%) DevOps
2 1,096 (23.55%) Agile
3 904 (19.43%) CI/CD
4 875 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
5 582 (12.51%) Migration
6 481 (10.34%) Analytics
7 408 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 394 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
9 351 (7.54%) Data Modelling
10 336 (7.22%) Containerisation
11 332 (7.14%) Test Automation
12 317 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 316 (6.79%) Software Engineering
14 313 (6.73%) Microservices
15 303 (6.51%) ETL
16 272 (5.85%) Machine Learning
17 264 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
17 264 (5.67%) Scrum
18 261 (5.61%) Cloud Security
19 255 (5.48%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (22.33%) Python
2 907 (19.49%) SQL
3 572 (12.29%) PowerShell
4 484 (10.40%) C#
5 442 (9.50%) Java
6 392 (8.42%) JavaScript
7 179 (3.85%) Bash
8 169 (3.63%) TypeScript
9 118 (2.54%) Bicep
10 64 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 63 (1.35%) Scala
12 52 (1.12%) C++
13 48 (1.03%) Go
14 47 (1.01%) R
15 40 (0.86%) PL/SQL
16 35 (0.75%) Shell Script
17 34 (0.73%) Ruby
18 32 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 32 (0.69%) Perl
19 22 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 776 (16.68%) Security Cleared
2 619 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 419 (9.00%) Degree
4 257 (5.52%) Azure Certification
5 155 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 143 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 130 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 124 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 97 (2.08%) CISSP
10 91 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
11 60 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 57 (1.23%) CISM
13 51 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 45 (0.97%) CCNP
15 33 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 31 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.64%) PMI Certification
18 28 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 28 (0.60%) CCNA
18 28 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.72%) QA
2 168 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 146 (3.14%) GDPR
4 115 (2.47%) NIST
5 97 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.93%) Accessibility
7 54 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 52 (1.12%) SLA
9 44 (0.95%) HIPAA
10 32 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 30 (0.64%) NCSC
11 30 (0.64%) PMO
12 23 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
13 17 (0.37%) GRC
14 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.17%) MiFID
17 8 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 645 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 412 (8.85%) Docker
3 213 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 93 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 90 (1.93%) Hyper-V
6 57 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 57 (1.23%) vSphere
7 32 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 13 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 12 (0.26%) XenApp
12 10 (0.21%) BitLocker
12 10 (0.21%) NFS
13 8 (0.17%) RACF
13 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.15%) HDFS
14 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.11%) KVM
16 4 (0.086%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 612 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 609 (13.09%) Terraform
3 374 (8.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 284 (6.10%) Ansible
5 116 (2.49%) SCCM
6 102 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 85 (1.83%) Grafana
8 81 (1.74%) Puppet
9 77 (1.65%) Prometheus
10 41 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 33 (0.71%) WSUS
12 29 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.58%) FortiGate
14 19 (0.41%) vCenter Server
15 18 (0.39%) Nessus
16 14 (0.30%) Kibana
17 13 (0.28%) logstash
17 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
17 13 (0.28%) NetBackup
17 13 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,440 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 374 (8.04%) Databricks
3 313 (6.73%) VMware
4 240 (5.16%) Google
5 208 (4.47%) Oracle
6 160 (3.44%) Cisco
7 130 (2.79%) SAP
8 124 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 113 (2.43%) Palo Alto
10 102 (2.19%) Red Hat
11 78 (1.68%) Citrix
12 71 (1.53%) Fortinet
13 69 (1.48%) CheckPoint
14 67 (1.44%) CyberArk
15 62 (1.33%) Splunk
16 55 (1.18%) IBM
17 53 (1.14%) Salesforce
18 46 (0.99%) SolarWinds
19 40 (0.86%) F5
20 39 (0.84%) Okta