Azure Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Microsoft Azure
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 7 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 20.59% 10.26% 9.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 27.59% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £413 £518 -
25th Percentile £445 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +11.52% +4.98%
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West End of London

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 in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14 29 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 41.18% 37.18% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 13
10th Percentile £429 £149 £263
25th Percentile £463 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +0.97% -6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £605
90th Percentile £610 £600 £635
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Azure job vacancy trend in West End of London

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in West End of London over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in West End of London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Westminster - 3 £480 - 3
Holborn - 1 £400 - 1
Azure
Central London

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Mattermost
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) git-flow
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Publishing
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Release Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) CRM Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Loki
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) WebRTC
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe