Azure Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 429 647 690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 19.92% 18.76% 16.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.77% 48.72% 38.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 385 537
10th Percentile £400 £413 £433
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £675
90th Percentile £775 £813 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £54.25 £26.32
25th Percentile - £58.75 £36.14
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +22.73% +89.66%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £100.00
90th Percentile - £80.75 £125.50
Central London median hourly rate - £67.50 £48.25
% change year-on-year - +39.90% +66.38%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 862 1,328 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.02% 38.50% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 869 1,417
10th Percentile £363 £313 £379
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -7.76% +0.87% +7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £12.75 £30.45 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £47.50 £15.28
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £23.34
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +253.43% +27.03%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £51.88
90th Percentile £38.63 - £83.00
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +154.72% +17.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 35 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.53%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.03%) Confluence
4 9 (2.10%) IIS
5 7 (1.63%) Apache
6 5 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.93%) Site Server
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) JBoss
8 2 (0.47%) Luigi
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
8 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.86%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.47%) Primavera
3 2 (0.47%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.23%) Endur
4 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (26.57%) Azure DevOps
2 87 (20.28%) AWS
3 62 (14.45%) Power Platform
4 56 (13.05%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (11.89%) Entra ID
6 37 (8.62%) GCP
7 34 (7.93%) Dynamics 365
8 27 (6.29%) Power Automate
8 27 (6.29%) PowerApps
9 26 (6.06%) GitHub
9 26 (6.06%) Serverless
10 25 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
11 21 (4.90%) Azure Functions
12 15 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (3.50%) IaaS
13 14 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.03%) Azure AKS
14 13 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.23%) Firewall
2 15 (3.50%) DNS
3 11 (2.56%) Network Security
4 9 (2.10%) Internet
5 7 (1.63%) VPN
5 7 (1.63%) WAN
6 5 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.93%) MPLS
7 4 (0.93%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.70%) DHCP
8 3 (0.70%) LAN
8 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.47%) CTI
9 2 (0.47%) HTTP
9 2 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.47%) SAN
9 2 (0.47%) SSL
9 2 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.69%) SQL Server
2 42 (9.79%) Power BI
3 33 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.59%) Data Lake
5 21 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.33%) MySQL
9 7 (1.63%) Big Data
10 6 (1.40%) Redis
11 5 (1.17%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.93%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.93%) GIS
12 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.70%) Metadata
13 3 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.06%) Git
2 15 (3.50%) GitLab
3 13 (3.03%) JIRA
4 11 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.33%) SpecFlow
6 9 (2.10%) Selenium
7 7 (1.63%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.63%) JMeter
8 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.17%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.93%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.93%) Postman
10 4 (0.93%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.70%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.47%) Gradle
12 2 (0.47%) Maven
12 2 (0.47%) Mockito
12 2 (0.47%) Subversion
13 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
General
1 119 (27.74%) Finance
2 103 (24.01%) Social Skills
3 46 (10.72%) Banking
4 37 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (3.96%) Retail
8 14 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.26%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.80%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.33%) Legal
11 8 (1.86%) General Ledger
12 7 (1.63%) Front Office
12 7 (1.63%) Marketing
13 6 (1.40%) Back Office
14 5 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.93%) French Language
16 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.47%) Advertising
17 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 99 (23.08%) Developer
2 66 (15.38%) Architect
3 48 (11.19%) Senior
4 31 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (6.99%) Consultant
6 27 (6.29%) Analyst
6 27 (6.29%) Full Stack Developer
7 26 (6.06%) Lead
8 20 (4.66%) Senior Developer
9 19 (4.43%) Data Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.50%) Azure Architect
12 12 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.80%) Product Owner
12 12 (2.80%) Software Developer
12 12 (2.80%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.33%) .NET Developer
13 10 (2.33%) Business Analyst
14 9 (2.10%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (16.78%) .NET
2 24 (5.59%) REST
3 21 (4.90%) .NET Core
3 21 (4.90%) .NET Framework
3 21 (4.90%) Kafka
3 21 (4.90%) React
3 21 (4.90%) XML
4 20 (4.66%) HTML
5 18 (4.20%) ASP.NET
5 18 (4.20%) Web Services
6 15 (3.50%) CSS
7 11 (2.56%) RESTful
8 10 (2.33%) JSON
8 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
8 10 (2.33%) Node.js
9 9 (2.10%) PySpark
9 9 (2.10%) SAML
10 8 (1.86%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (1.86%) Blazor
10 8 (1.86%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.63%) PKI
9 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.93%) Derivative
10 4 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.93%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.93%) Wiki
11 3 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.70%) IoT
11 3 (0.70%) IVR
11 3 (0.70%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 61 (14.22%) Windows
2 30 (6.99%) Linux
3 19 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.17%) Unix
6 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (35.43%) DevOps
2 138 (32.17%) Agile
3 70 (16.32%) CI/CD
4 54 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (12.35%) Migration
6 47 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (10.96%) Scrum
7 38 (8.86%) Software Engineering
8 35 (8.16%) Analytics
9 31 (7.23%) Full Stack Development
9 31 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (6.76%) Computer Science
11 27 (6.29%) Data Modelling
12 25 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (5.59%) Project Management
14 23 (5.36%) Data Loss Prevention
14 23 (5.36%) SDLC
15 22 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.68%) SQL
2 82 (19.11%) Python
3 75 (17.48%) PowerShell
4 67 (15.62%) C#
5 28 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.83%) Java
7 15 (3.50%) Bicep
8 12 (2.80%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.56%) C++
10 8 (1.86%) Go
11 6 (1.40%) Bash
11 6 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.17%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.93%) Korn
13 4 (0.93%) R
13 4 (0.93%) Rust
14 3 (0.70%) Scala
15 2 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (11.66%) Degree
2 21 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.50%) Azure Certification
4 12 (2.80%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.63%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.17%) CISSP
7 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.93%) CISM
8 4 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.70%) CRISC
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) CIMA
10 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.47%) PMP
10 2 (0.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.80%) QA
2 10 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.86%) NIST
5 7 (1.63%) GDPR
5 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.40%) SLA
7 4 (0.93%) WCAG
8 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.70%) COBIT
8 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.70%) ISO 31000
8 3 (0.70%) NCSC
8 3 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.70%) PMO
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 39 (9.09%) Docker
3 14 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.47%) XenApp
8 1 (0.23%) Ceph
8 1 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.23%) NFS
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (12.35%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.39%) Terraform
3 27 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.10%) PingFederate
4 9 (2.10%) SCCM
5 8 (1.86%) Ansible
6 7 (1.63%) Puppet
6 7 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.17%) Argo
8 5 (1.17%) Grafana
8 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.70%) CASB
10 3 (0.70%) Nagios
11 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.47%) Graylog
11 2 (0.47%) SCOrch
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 156 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.46%) Oracle
3 28 (6.53%) Databricks
4 17 (3.96%) VMware
5 16 (3.73%) Citrix
6 13 (3.03%) Google
7 9 (2.10%) Cisco
7 9 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.63%) SAP
9 6 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.17%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.17%) Okta
10 5 (1.17%) Splunk
11 4 (0.93%) ESRI
11 4 (0.93%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.93%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.93%) IBM
11 4 (0.93%) Symantec
12 3 (0.70%) Adobe
12 3 (0.70%) Proofpoint