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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 21 41 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 9.25% 11.20% 9.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% 30.37% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 49
10th Percentile £320 £403 £343
25th Percentile £372 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -32.14% +51.35%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £813
90th Percentile £551 £562 £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 £29.00 £23.80 £46.25
% change year-on-year +21.85% -48.54% -7.50%

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 84 135 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 37.00% 36.89% 42.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 106 199
10th Percentile £231 £255 £240
25th Percentile £341 £372 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -19.15% +17.50%
75th Percentile £520 £569 £650
90th Percentile £681 £625 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 19
10th Percentile - £22.60 £61.85
25th Percentile £22.27 £23.05 £64.75
Median hourly rate £25.64 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -68.27% +253.36%
75th Percentile £33.68 £45.40 £90.00
90th Percentile £49.75 £58.36 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +11.81% -50.48% +31.25%

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 31 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 31 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 7 £475 +18.75%
Hounslow +1 2 £488 +2.63% 11
Hillingdon -6 1 - - 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 3 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (4.76%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (14.29%) Firebase
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DHCP
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) DKIM
2 1 (4.76%) DMARC
2 1 (4.76%) Extranet
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Redis
1 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Local Government
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Back Office
4 2 (9.52%) Billing
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Release Manager
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Technical Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Web Services
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (14.29%) Autofac
2 3 (14.29%) Dapper ORM
2 3 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 3 (14.29%) Node.js
2 3 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) StructureMap
2 3 (14.29%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.76%) Android
4 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Agile
1 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (19.05%) Microservices
3 3 (14.29%) BDD
3 3 (14.29%) CRM
3 3 (14.29%) Data Design
3 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 3 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 3 (14.29%) MVC
3 3 (14.29%) OOP
3 3 (14.29%) Scrum
3 3 (14.29%) Server Patching
3 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (14.29%) TDD
3 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 3 (14.29%) User Experience
3 3 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) C#
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
2 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) MCPD
1 3 (14.29%) MCSD
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Qualys
4 1 (4.76%) Avaya
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Mitel
4 1 (4.76%) MobileIron
4 1 (4.76%) Proofpoint
4 1 (4.76%) Remedy
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow