Azure Contracts in West London

Microsoft Azure
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 18 40 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 8.74% 11.14% 9.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.09% 30.30% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 45
10th Percentile £381 £403 £360
25th Percentile £407 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +38.96%
75th Percentile £541 £509 £700
90th Percentile £571 £563 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £22.45 -
25th Percentile - £22.68 £62.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.05 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.81% -63.98% +42.22%
75th Percentile - £23.43 £66.00
90th Percentile - £23.65 -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £23.40 £34.50
% change year-on-year +49.57% -32.17% -37.27%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 69 132 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 33.50% 36.77% 42.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 104 187
10th Percentile £290 £250 £303
25th Percentile £363 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -17.39% +11.64%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £650
90th Percentile £720 £599 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 21
10th Percentile - £22.60 £61.25
25th Percentile - £23.05 £64.50
Median hourly rate £22.27 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% -68.27% +253.36%
75th Percentile £27.32 £45.40 £80.00
90th Percentile £29.04 £58.36 £90.00
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in West London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in West London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in West London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in West London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in West London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in West 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Wembley 0 6 £550 +37.50% 4
Hillingdon -4 3 £475 - 7
Hounslow +2 2 £488 +2.63% 6
Hammersmith -3 1 £409 -9.11% 6
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
5 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) DKIM
2 1 (5.56%) DMARC
2 1 (5.56%) Extranet
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
1 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Digital Programme Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation
6 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Release Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (16.67%) Autofac
1 3 (16.67%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 3 (16.67%) REST
1 3 (16.67%) StructureMap
1 3 (16.67%) WCF
1 3 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (11.11%) YAML
3 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.56%) Prisma
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) BDD
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) CRM
4 3 (16.67%) Data Design
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
4 3 (16.67%) MVC
4 3 (16.67%) OOP
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Server Patching
4 3 (16.67%) TDD
4 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Web Development
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) MCPD
2 3 (16.67%) MCSD
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) Avaya
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Mitel
3 1 (5.56%) MobileIron
3 1 (5.56%) NEC
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint