Hybrid/Remote Azure Event Grid Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Event Grid
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Event Grid skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 297 355
Rank change year-on-year -20 +58 +136
Contract jobs citing Azure Event Grid 8 11 18
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.075% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 12
10th Percentile £397 £501 £419
25th Percentile £402 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -37.31% - +27.45%
75th Percentile £538 £751 £722
90th Percentile £695 £768 £773
UK median daily rate £500 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +10.87%

All Cloud Computing 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 4,491 4,200 6,144
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.24% 39.34% 36.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,895 4,416
10th Percentile £337 £350 £350
25th Percentile £414 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £634 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 46 100
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.90 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.13 £26.25 £19.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +34.62% -49.02%
75th Percentile £64.00 £56.88 £61.59
90th Percentile £85.50 £76.88 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

Azure Event Grid
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Event Grid and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Event Grid job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Event Grid.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Event Grid over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Azure Event Grid daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Event Grid
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Integration Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) XSLT
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
3 1 (12.50%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Compliance Audit
2 2 (25.00%) Cost Control
2 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (25.00%) Decision Tree
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) FedRAMP
1 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Foundry