Azure Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 460 669 767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 19.17% 17.89% 16.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.02% 46.23% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 418 607
10th Percentile £382 £400 £413
25th Percentile £452 £482 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £656
90th Percentile £775 £813 £750
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £54.25 £24.12
25th Percentile £22.50 £58.75 £30.64
Median hourly rate £23.00 £67.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.93% +62.65% +43.10%
75th Percentile £23.50 £76.25 £92.00
90th Percentile - £80.75 £122.30
London median hourly rate £23.40 £40.00 £44.40
% change year-on-year -41.50% -9.91% -22.11%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 958 1,447 1,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.92% 38.70% 43.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 983 1,584
10th Percentile £350 £300 £375
25th Percentile £425 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 11
10th Percentile £12.75 £22.45 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +308.72% -10.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £88.30 £34.63
90th Percentile £36.30 - £50.00
London median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £40.25
% change year-on-year -45.26% +18.01% +20.15%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Central London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London 0 422 £550 -4.35% 159
West End of London -4 4 £535 -10.83% 9
Camden 0 3 £650 +100.00% 9
City of Westminster -5 2 £550 +37.50% 6
Azure
London

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 39 (8.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.83%) Confluence
4 9 (1.96%) Apache
4 9 (1.96%) IIS
5 7 (1.52%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.87%) Site Server
8 3 (0.65%) CMS
9 2 (0.43%) JBoss
9 2 (0.43%) Luigi
9 2 (0.43%) nginx
9 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.22%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.74%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.43%) Primavera
3 2 (0.43%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (24.35%) Azure DevOps
2 98 (21.30%) AWS
3 73 (15.87%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (13.91%) Power Platform
5 59 (12.83%) Entra ID
6 35 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (7.39%) GCP
8 28 (6.09%) GitHub
8 28 (6.09%) Power Automate
8 28 (6.09%) PowerApps
8 28 (6.09%) Serverless
9 26 (5.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (5.00%) Azure Functions
11 21 (4.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 18 (3.91%) IaaS
13 16 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (3.26%) Mimecast
15 14 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.04%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.39%) Firewall
2 20 (4.35%) DNS
3 10 (2.17%) Network Security
4 7 (1.52%) DHCP
4 7 (1.52%) Internet
5 6 (1.30%) LAN
5 6 (1.30%) MPLS
5 6 (1.30%) VPN
5 6 (1.30%) WAN
6 4 (0.87%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.65%) SAN
7 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.65%) Wireless
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.43%) CTI
8 2 (0.43%) HTTP
8 2 (0.43%) SSL
8 2 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.78%) SQL Server
2 42 (9.13%) Power BI
3 30 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.65%) Data Lake
5 22 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.17%) MySQL
10 7 (1.52%) Big Data
10 7 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.30%) Redis
12 5 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.87%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.87%) GIS
13 4 (0.87%) Parquet
13 4 (0.87%) Power Query
13 4 (0.87%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (5.87%) Git
2 14 (3.04%) GitLab
3 13 (2.83%) JIRA
4 11 (2.39%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.17%) SpecFlow
6 8 (1.74%) Selenium
7 7 (1.52%) JMeter
8 6 (1.30%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.30%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.87%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.87%) Postman
10 4 (0.87%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.65%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.43%) Deequ
12 2 (0.43%) Subversion
13 1 (0.22%) AppScan
13 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.22%) RStudio
General
1 122 (26.52%) Finance
2 110 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.13%) Banking
4 40 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.48%) Retail
8 15 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.17%) Legal
11 8 (1.74%) Back Office
11 8 (1.74%) General Ledger
12 7 (1.52%) French Language
12 7 (1.52%) Front Office
12 7 (1.52%) Marketing
13 5 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.87%) Local Government
15 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (23.70%) Developer
2 75 (16.30%) Architect
3 56 (12.17%) Senior
4 32 (6.96%) Analyst
5 30 (6.52%) Consultant
5 30 (6.52%) Full Stack Developer
6 28 (6.09%) Lead
7 27 (5.87%) Senior Developer
8 25 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (3.91%) Data Engineer
9 18 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.70%) Azure Architect
10 17 (3.70%) Azure Developer
11 16 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.26%) Software Developer
13 13 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.83%) Product Owner
14 12 (2.61%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.39%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.17%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.17%) .NET
2 27 (5.87%) XML
3 26 (5.65%) .NET Core
4 25 (5.43%) REST
5 23 (5.00%) .NET Framework
5 23 (5.00%) React
6 21 (4.57%) ASP.NET
6 21 (4.57%) HTML
7 18 (3.91%) Web Services
8 17 (3.70%) Kafka
9 16 (3.48%) CSS
10 14 (3.04%) JSON
11 11 (2.39%) Blazor
11 11 (2.39%) Node.js
12 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (1.96%) PySpark
13 9 (1.96%) RESTful
14 8 (1.74%) SAML
14 8 (1.74%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 13 (2.83%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.61%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.61%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 9 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.52%) PKI
6 7 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.87%) Contactless
8 4 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.87%) Derivative
8 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.87%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.65%) Windows
2 28 (6.09%) Linux
3 22 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.09%) Unix
6 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (33.70%) DevOps
2 154 (33.48%) Agile
3 77 (16.74%) CI/CD
4 60 (13.04%) Migration
5 54 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (11.30%) Scrum
7 47 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (9.13%) Software Engineering
9 38 (8.26%) Analytics
10 34 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (7.17%) Full Stack Development
12 30 (6.52%) Data Modelling
13 28 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 27 (5.87%) Computer Science
15 26 (5.65%) SDLC
16 25 (5.43%) Data Loss Prevention
17 24 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (5.22%) Project Management
18 23 (5.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 92 (20.00%) SQL
2 80 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 79 (17.17%) Python
4 72 (15.65%) C#
5 32 (6.96%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.00%) Java
7 20 (4.35%) Bicep
8 13 (2.83%) C++
9 12 (2.61%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.96%) Go
11 7 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.52%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.87%) Bash
13 4 (0.87%) Korn
13 4 (0.87%) R
13 4 (0.87%) Rust
13 4 (0.87%) Scala
13 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 51 (11.09%) Degree
2 21 (4.57%) Azure Certification
3 20 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.39%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.74%) CISSP
8 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.09%) CISM
8 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.65%) CRISC
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) CCSK
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.83%) QA
2 11 (2.39%) NIST
3 10 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.74%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.74%) SLA
5 7 (1.52%) GDPR
5 7 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.09%) WCAG
7 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.65%) ISO 31000
8 3 (0.65%) NCSC
8 3 (0.65%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.65%) PMO
9 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 77 (16.74%) Active Directory
2 32 (6.96%) Docker
3 15 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.43%) XenApp
8 1 (0.22%) Ceph
8 1 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) NFS
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.39%) Terraform
3 32 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.96%) PingFederate
4 9 (1.96%) SCCM
5 8 (1.74%) Ansible
6 6 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.30%) Puppet
6 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.09%) Argo
7 5 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.87%) Grafana
8 4 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.65%) Nagios
9 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.43%) Graylog
11 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.22%) Mesos
11 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 178 (38.70%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.04%) Oracle
3 29 (6.30%) Databricks
4 22 (4.78%) VMware
5 17 (3.70%) Citrix
6 13 (2.83%) Google
7 10 (2.17%) Cisco
8 8 (1.74%) Okta
8 8 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.52%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.52%) SAP
10 6 (1.30%) Splunk
11 4 (0.87%) Aruba
11 4 (0.87%) ESRI
11 4 (0.87%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.87%) IBM
11 4 (0.87%) Informatica
11 4 (0.87%) Juniper
11 4 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.87%) Symantec