Azure Blueprints Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Blueprints over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 335 476
Rank change year-on-year +34 +141 +137
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 3 10 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.065% 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.27% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.54% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £751 £650 £500
% change year-on-year +15.54% +30.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Azure Blueprints falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Azure Blueprints
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Blueprints as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Blueprints trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Blueprints
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Blueprints.

Azure Blueprints daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Blueprints
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (100.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft