Azure Event Grid Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Event Grid skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Event Grid 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 291 337 448
Rank change year-on-year +46 +111 +116
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 13 8 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.052% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.14% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 27
10th Percentile £488 £413 £463
25th Percentile £494 £428 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -15.25% +12.38%
75th Percentile £751 £563 £681
90th Percentile - £575 £770
UK median daily rate £575 £540 £568
% change year-on-year +6.48% -4.85% +0.89%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Event Grid falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Event Grid
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Event Grid trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Event Grid
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 Event Grid.

Azure Event Grid daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Event Grid over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure Event Grid daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Event Grid
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Serverless
3 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (53.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (46.15%) Azure Functions
6 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
7 4 (30.77%) Azure API Management
8 3 (23.08%) AWS
8 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
8 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (23.08%) GCP
8 3 (23.08%) IaaS
8 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (23.08%) PaaS
8 3 (23.08%) SaaS
9 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Moq
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Azure Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.69%) React Developer
5 1 (7.69%) SOA Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 5 (38.46%) .NET Framework
3 4 (30.77%) YAML
4 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
5 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
5 2 (15.38%) Swagger
6 1 (7.69%) EDI
6 1 (7.69%) JSON
6 1 (7.69%) OAuth
6 1 (7.69%) REST
6 1 (7.69%) SOAP
6 1 (7.69%) WCF
6 1 (7.69%) XML
6 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (23.08%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
1 3 (23.08%) Reinsurance
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) B2B
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Cost Management
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) High Availability
5 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
5 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) Bicep
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
1 3 (23.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Snow