Azure Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 1,697 2,350 4,675
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.14% 15.40% 18.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.01% 42.56% 45.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 1,660 3,440
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £427 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 58
10th Percentile £35.00 £21.16 £28.39
25th Percentile £50.00 £22.61 £54.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -46.97% +0.70%
75th Percentile £70.63 - £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £47.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -39.13% +6.48%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure 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 3,946 5,521 10,172
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.87% 36.19% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,894 3,959 7,476
10th Percentile £351 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -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 87 126
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.44
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.82 £21.52
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.29% +98.18%
75th Percentile £70.63 £46.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.25 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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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.

Azure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Azure daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Azure hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 103 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 59 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.94%) Confluence
4 25 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 23 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.94%) Apache
7 6 (0.35%) CMS
8 5 (0.29%) IIS
8 5 (0.29%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
10 3 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.12%) Mule
11 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.059%) Mattermost
Applications
1 30 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.59%) Trello
4 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.059%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.059%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 31 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.41%) Endur
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.18%) Primavera
8 3 (0.18%) Unica
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.059%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.059%) Maximo
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 550 (32.41%) AWS
2 354 (20.86%) Azure DevOps
3 292 (17.21%) GCP
4 227 (13.38%) Power Platform
5 219 (12.91%) Entra ID
6 200 (11.79%) Microsoft 365
7 114 (6.72%) SaaS
8 96 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
9 94 (5.54%) GitHub
10 88 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 79 (4.66%) PaaS
12 76 (4.48%) PowerApps
13 73 (4.30%) IaaS
13 73 (4.30%) Serverless
14 60 (3.54%) Azure AKS
14 60 (3.54%) Power Automate
15 58 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 58 (3.42%) Snowflake
16 52 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
16 52 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 135 (7.96%) Firewall
2 94 (5.54%) DNS
3 69 (4.07%) VPN
4 61 (3.59%) DHCP
5 60 (3.54%) Network Security
6 52 (3.06%) TCP/IP
7 43 (2.53%) HTTP
7 43 (2.53%) WAN
8 33 (1.94%) BGP
9 27 (1.59%) LAN
10 26 (1.53%) OSPF
11 25 (1.47%) HTTPS
12 20 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (1.12%) Wireless
14 17 (1.00%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.94%) SSL
16 15 (0.88%) MPLS
17 12 (0.71%) Internet
17 12 (0.71%) SMTP
17 12 (0.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (8.49%) Power BI
2 132 (7.78%) SQL Server
3 89 (5.24%) Data Lake
4 79 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 46 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 38 (2.24%) Big Data
9 36 (2.12%) MongoDB
10 35 (2.06%) NoSQL
11 30 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (1.59%) Redis
13 25 (1.47%) Hadoop
13 25 (1.47%) Oracle Database
14 22 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (1.24%) Metadata
16 20 (1.18%) Neo4j
16 20 (1.18%) Tableau
17 19 (1.12%) MySQL
18 12 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (7.37%) Git
2 110 (6.48%) JIRA
3 82 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.42%) GitLab
5 27 (1.59%) Selenium
6 23 (1.36%) Postman
7 20 (1.18%) JMeter
8 16 (0.94%) REST Assured
8 16 (0.94%) Visual Studio
9 14 (0.82%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.77%) MSI
11 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.65%) NUnit
12 11 (0.65%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.59%) Maven
13 10 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.53%) JUnit
General
1 442 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 331 (19.51%) Finance
3 192 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 180 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (6.19%) Banking
6 44 (2.59%) Retail
7 40 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (2.30%) Front Office
9 33 (1.94%) Marketing
10 30 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (1.71%) Investment Banking
12 27 (1.59%) Law
13 26 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.41%) Legal
15 22 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.94%) Back Office
18 14 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
19 10 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 321 (18.92%) Developer
2 304 (17.91%) Architect
3 182 (10.72%) Senior
4 145 (8.54%) Azure Engineer
5 120 (7.07%) Data Engineer
6 109 (6.42%) Lead
7 94 (5.54%) Analyst
8 93 (5.48%) Consultant
9 86 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 85 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.77%) Technical Architect
12 61 (3.59%) Azure Architect
13 59 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 58 (3.42%) .NET Developer
15 57 (3.36%) Data Architect
16 46 (2.71%) Cloud Architect
17 44 (2.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 44 (2.59%) Security Architect
18 41 (2.42%) Security Engineer
18 41 (2.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (9.96%) .NET
2 88 (5.19%) REST
3 85 (5.01%) React
4 71 (4.18%) AngularJS
5 60 (3.54%) HTML
6 57 (3.36%) Kafka
7 56 (3.30%) CSS
8 52 (3.06%) RESTful
9 45 (2.65%) .NET Core
10 43 (2.53%) OAuth
11 41 (2.42%) Node.js
12 40 (2.36%) SOAP
13 39 (2.30%) PySpark
14 37 (2.18%) Web Services
15 33 (1.94%) .NET Framework
16 31 (1.83%) ADO
17 28 (1.65%) JSON
18 27 (1.59%) ARM Templates
18 27 (1.59%) Vue
19 24 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.83%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.89%) Product Ownership
3 42 (2.47%) Data Centre
4 38 (2.24%) Security Posture
5 36 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 33 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 20 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.06%) Hedge funds
15 17 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
16 15 (0.88%) Equities
16 15 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 15 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 185 (10.90%) Windows
2 97 (5.72%) Linux
3 79 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.77%) Unix
5 18 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.88%) Android
7 14 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.77%) VMS
8 13 (0.77%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.41%) AIX
10 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.24%) Solaris
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.18%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.12%) CentOS
14 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.12%) SUSE
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (33.24%) DevOps
2 436 (25.69%) Agile
3 323 (19.03%) CI/CD
4 309 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
5 225 (13.26%) Migration
6 185 (10.90%) Analytics
7 165 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 142 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
9 141 (8.31%) Data Modelling
10 132 (7.78%) Containerisation
11 122 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 120 (7.07%) Test Automation
13 112 (6.60%) Software Engineering
14 110 (6.48%) Microservices
15 106 (6.25%) Machine Learning
16 100 (5.89%) ETL
17 99 (5.83%) Cloud Security
18 97 (5.72%) Scrum
19 94 (5.54%) Artificial Intelligence
20 91 (5.36%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 350 (20.62%) Python
2 326 (19.21%) SQL
3 213 (12.55%) PowerShell
4 194 (11.43%) C#
5 160 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 153 (9.02%) Java
7 70 (4.12%) Bash
8 64 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 60 (3.54%) Bicep
10 25 (1.47%) C++
10 25 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.36%) Scala
12 19 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.82%) Ruby
13 14 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.77%) Go
14 13 (0.77%) R
15 10 (0.59%) Perl
16 9 (0.53%) C
16 9 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 278 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 244 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 122 (7.19%) Degree
4 99 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 61 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 50 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.53%) CISSP
9 35 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.24%) CISM
12 20 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 18 (1.06%) CCNP
13 18 (1.06%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (0.71%) CCNA
16 10 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.59%) GIAC
17 9 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.95%) GDPR
2 63 (3.71%) QA
3 54 (3.18%) NIST
4 50 (2.95%) Data Quality
5 47 (2.77%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.30%) HIPAA
9 17 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.71%) SLA
11 9 (0.53%) GRC
11 9 (0.53%) NCSC
12 7 (0.41%) PMO
13 5 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.29%) HL7
13 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.29%) WCAG
14 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.24%) ITGC
System Software
1 208 (12.26%) Active Directory
2 157 (9.25%) Docker
3 49 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.24%) vSphere
6 18 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.24%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) RACF
10 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.18%) XenApp
12 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 230 (13.55%) Terraform
2 210 (12.37%) Kubernetes
3 96 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 70 (4.12%) Ansible
5 43 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (2.18%) Grafana
7 35 (2.06%) SCCM
8 30 (1.77%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.47%) Puppet
10 21 (1.24%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.71%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.59%) WSUS
13 9 (0.53%) Kibana
14 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.41%) Perfmon
16 6 (0.35%) Nessus
17 5 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.29%) Istio
17 5 (0.29%) Podman
18 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 508 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 138 (8.13%) Databricks
3 82 (4.83%) VMware
4 79 (4.66%) Google
5 72 (4.24%) Oracle
6 60 (3.54%) Cisco
7 57 (3.36%) Palo Alto
8 40 (2.36%) SAP
9 37 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.12%) CyberArk
11 34 (2.00%) CheckPoint
12 32 (1.89%) Fortinet
13 30 (1.77%) Splunk
14 24 (1.41%) Citrix
15 23 (1.36%) IBM
16 17 (1.00%) Qualys
17 16 (0.94%) Red Hat
18 15 (0.88%) Okta
19 13 (0.77%) Zscaler
20 12 (0.71%) Dynatrace