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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,641 5,999 10,465
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 15.98% 13.55% 16.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.95% 41.59% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 4,332 7,664
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -5.83% +1.36%
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 59 116
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.80 £17.72
25th Percentile £24.00 £22.40 £24.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% -29.36% +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 £50.53 £57.50
% change year-on-year -36.67% -12.13% +27.78%

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 11,064 14,425 23,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.08% 32.59% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,765 10,217 16,883
10th Percentile £313 £294 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £501
% change year-on-year -3.13% -2.03% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 352 387
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.00 £15.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -23.64% +30.64%
75th Percentile £41.50 £39.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.80 £62.00 £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 1 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 1 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 1 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 3,868 £525 -2.78% 5,448
London +1 2,250 £550 - 3,084
Work from Home +2 1,745 £517 -1.48% 2,924
UK excluding London +3 1,744 £500 - 2,872
South East +4 486 £538 +1.65% 829
North of England +1 430 £488 - 766
North West +6 275 £500 - 452
Scotland +1 247 £475 -1.81% 219
Midlands -1 245 £500 - 402
South West -1 218 £525 +2.69% 334
West Midlands -2 189 £525 - 255
Yorkshire 0 118 £450 -5.26% 227
East of England +13 79 £580 +22.11% 224
Wales +1 68 £413 -17.50% 90
East Midlands 0 51 £475 +1.33% 141
North East +1 36 £481 -6.10% 92
Northern Ireland -16 8 £475 -15.56% 57
Isle of Man +1 2 - - 1
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
1 310 (6.68%) SharePoint
2 216 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 110 (2.37%) Confluence
4 97 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 56 (1.21%) Apache
6 34 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.37%) CMS
8 14 (0.30%) IIS
9 12 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
10 11 (0.24%) SAS
10 11 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.22%) 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%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) JBoss
13 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 107 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.73%) 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 (0.065%) Sketch
9 1 (0.022%) 1Password
9 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 89 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.22%) 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 (0.065%) Infor CloudSuite
9 3 (0.065%) Primavera
9 3 (0.065%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.065%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.043%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 1,366 (29.43%) AWS
2 837 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
3 700 (15.08%) GCP
4 634 (13.66%) Microsoft 365
5 580 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 564 (12.15%) Entra ID
7 277 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 257 (5.54%) GitHub
9 240 (5.17%) SaaS
10 227 (4.89%) Serverless
11 224 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
12 203 (4.37%) PaaS
13 195 (4.20%) PowerApps
14 175 (3.77%) IaaS
15 168 (3.62%) Azure AKS
16 163 (3.51%) Power Automate
17 154 (3.32%) Azure Functions
18 142 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
18 142 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
19 125 (2.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 376 (8.10%) Firewall
2 259 (5.58%) DNS
3 211 (4.55%) VPN
4 174 (3.75%) Network Security
5 144 (3.10%) DHCP
6 128 (2.76%) TCP/IP
7 114 (2.46%) WAN
8 77 (1.66%) HTTP
9 74 (1.59%) BGP
10 65 (1.40%) LAN
10 65 (1.40%) MPLS
11 63 (1.36%) SD-WAN
12 54 (1.16%) OSPF
13 50 (1.08%) VLAN
13 50 (1.08%) Wireless
14 47 (1.01%) SSL
15 44 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
16 38 (0.82%) SAN
17 36 (0.78%) NGFW
18 28 (0.60%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (8.42%) Power BI
2 362 (7.80%) SQL Server
3 221 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 213 (4.59%) Data Lake
5 145 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 139 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 130 (2.80%) NoSQL
8 113 (2.43%) Big Data
9 106 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 80 (1.72%) 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 (1.19%) Hadoop
15 52 (1.12%) Tableau
16 50 (1.08%) Redis
17 41 (0.88%) Oracle Database
18 36 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
19 35 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 323 (6.96%) Git
2 260 (5.60%) JIRA
3 198 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 162 (3.49%) GitLab
5 68 (1.47%) Selenium
6 49 (1.06%) Postman
7 41 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 35 (0.75%) JUnit
10 34 (0.73%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.71%) JMeter
12 30 (0.65%) Maven
13 25 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.54%) ERwin
13 25 (0.54%) MSI
14 21 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
14 21 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
15 20 (0.43%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.43%) SpecFlow
15 20 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 1,222 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 897 (19.33%) Finance
3 519 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 463 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 271 (5.84%) Banking
6 120 (2.59%) Marketing
7 118 (2.54%) Telecoms
8 96 (2.07%) Retail
9 90 (1.94%) Legal
10 85 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 77 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 70 (1.51%) Front Office
13 63 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 55 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 46 (0.99%) Law
17 44 (0.95%) Electronics
18 40 (0.86%) Back Office
18 40 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
19 39 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 831 (17.91%) Architect
2 750 (16.16%) Developer
3 490 (10.56%) Senior
4 400 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
5 331 (7.13%) Data Engineer
6 284 (6.12%) Lead
7 280 (6.03%) Analyst
8 248 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
9 230 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 211 (4.55%) Consultant
11 157 (3.38%) Azure Architect
12 147 (3.17%) Support Engineer
13 146 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 123 (2.65%) Technical Architect
15 119 (2.56%) Senior Developer
16 118 (2.54%) Security Architect
17 115 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
17 115 (2.48%) Data Architect
18 112 (2.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 108 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (9.98%) .NET
2 211 (4.55%) React
3 175 (3.77%) REST
4 162 (3.49%) HTML
5 161 (3.47%) CSS
6 155 (3.34%) Kafka
7 151 (3.25%) RESTful
8 138 (2.97%) AngularJS
9 119 (2.56%) Node.js
10 117 (2.52%) PySpark
11 104 (2.24%) JSON
12 97 (2.09%) .NET Core
12 97 (2.09%) OAuth
13 91 (1.96%) SOAP
14 86 (1.85%) Web Services
15 81 (1.75%) .NET Framework
16 71 (1.53%) ADO
17 66 (1.42%) Spring
18 65 (1.40%) ARM Templates
19 64 (1.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (3.62%) Cloud Native
2 166 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 137 (2.95%) Public Cloud
4 127 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 115 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 105 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 88 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 82 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 72 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 71 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 59 (1.27%) PKI
13 51 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 50 (1.08%) Algorithms
15 48 (1.03%) Data Structures
16 43 (0.93%) Replication
17 41 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (0.80%) Mobile App
19 35 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
20 34 (0.73%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 653 (14.07%) Windows
2 323 (6.96%) Linux
3 303 (6.53%) Windows Server
4 121 (2.61%) Windows 10
5 94 (2.03%) Unix
6 89 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 41 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (0.71%) Android
9 32 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 31 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 31 (0.67%) VMS
11 30 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
12 25 (0.54%) CentOS
12 25 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 21 (0.45%) AIX
14 18 (0.39%) Solaris
15 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
16 9 (0.19%) Rocky
16 9 (0.19%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,469 (31.65%) DevOps
2 1,091 (23.51%) Agile
3 906 (19.52%) CI/CD
4 869 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
5 582 (12.54%) Migration
6 476 (10.26%) Analytics
7 402 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 389 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
9 351 (7.56%) Data Modelling
10 334 (7.20%) Containerisation
11 330 (7.11%) Test Automation
12 315 (6.79%) Microservices
13 314 (6.77%) Software Engineering
13 314 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 306 (6.59%) ETL
15 270 (5.82%) Machine Learning
16 263 (5.67%) Cloud Security
16 263 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
17 261 (5.62%) Scrum
18 255 (5.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1,038 (22.37%) Python
2 905 (19.50%) SQL
3 572 (12.32%) PowerShell
4 480 (10.34%) C#
5 442 (9.52%) Java
6 390 (8.40%) JavaScript
7 181 (3.90%) Bash
8 169 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 115 (2.48%) Bicep
10 64 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 62 (1.34%) Scala
12 52 (1.12%) C++
13 48 (1.03%) Go
14 47 (1.01%) R
15 40 (0.86%) PL/SQL
16 36 (0.78%) 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
1 767 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 611 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 417 (8.99%) Degree
4 255 (5.49%) Azure Certification
5 153 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 142 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 129 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 122 (2.63%) AWS Certification
9 97 (2.09%) CISSP
10 89 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 57 (1.23%) CISM
13 50 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 44 (0.95%) CCNP
15 33 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 30 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 30 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.62%) CCNA
18 28 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 28 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (3.75%) QA
2 168 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 146 (3.15%) GDPR
4 115 (2.48%) NIST
5 99 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 55 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 51 (1.10%) SLA
9 44 (0.95%) HIPAA
10 33 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 30 (0.65%) NCSC
11 30 (0.65%) PMO
12 23 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
13 17 (0.37%) GRC
14 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.22%) 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
1 642 (13.83%) Active Directory
2 408 (8.79%) Docker
3 213 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 92 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 90 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 56 (1.21%) vSphere
7 54 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 32 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 13 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 12 (0.26%) XenApp
13 10 (0.22%) BitLocker
13 10 (0.22%) NFS
14 8 (0.17%) RACF
14 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.15%) HDFS
15 7 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.11%) KVM
17 4 (0.086%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 608 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 604 (13.01%) Terraform
3 371 (7.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 283 (6.10%) Ansible
5 114 (2.46%) SCCM
6 102 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 85 (1.83%) Grafana
8 81 (1.75%) Puppet
9 77 (1.66%) Prometheus
10 42 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 32 (0.69%) WSUS
12 28 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 26 (0.56%) 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 1,432 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 377 (8.12%) Databricks
3 312 (6.72%) VMware
4 240 (5.17%) Google
5 208 (4.48%) Oracle
6 159 (3.43%) Cisco
7 130 (2.80%) SAP
8 125 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 111 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 103 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 76 (1.64%) Citrix
12 71 (1.53%) Fortinet
13 68 (1.47%) CheckPoint
14 66 (1.42%) CyberArk
15 62 (1.34%) Splunk
16 56 (1.21%) IBM
17 53 (1.14%) Salesforce
18 44 (0.95%) SolarWinds
19 39 (0.84%) F5
19 39 (0.84%) Okta