Azure Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Microsoft Azure
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Westminster requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 40.00% - 7.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 66.67% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £494 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.58%
75th Percentile £650 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £580 £575 £456
% change year-on-year +0.87% +26.03% -45.52%

All Cloud Skills
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 60.00% 46.67% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £488 £410 £518
25th Percentile £521 £463 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -12.28% +20.00%
75th Percentile £717 £538 £609
90th Percentile £800 £663 £626
City of Westminster median daily rate £543 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +41.18%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Westminster

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Westminster over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Westminster

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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 (16.67%) Mattermost
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DKIM
1 1 (16.67%) DMARC
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) PSTN
1 1 (16.67%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Loki
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Data Encryption
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 2 (33.33%) SABSA
2 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (33.33%) CASP
2 2 (33.33%) CCSP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) CREST Certified
2 2 (33.33%) CSSLP
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) GIAC
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) SELinux
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) VMware