Azure Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,878 4,589 6,967
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.13% 16.98% 17.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.69% 43.51% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,118 3,303 5,123
10th Percentile £375 £413 £423
25th Percentile £461 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £768 £788 £775
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 19
10th Percentile £17.78 £21.53 £22.58
25th Percentile £22.08 £24.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £34.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% -38.18% -3.51%
75th Percentile £29.40 £61.00 £81.88
90th Percentile £35.00 £80.20 £91.72
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -1.48%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,741 10,548 16,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.78% 39.02% 41.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 7,702 12,104
10th Percentile £343 £375 £400
25th Percentile £445 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £781 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 87
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.18
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.63 £21.89
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +1.27% +19.07%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.05
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Central London +1 457 £550 -4.35% 182
West London +7 39 £475 -26.92% 52
East London -1 35 £540 +4.85% 55
South London +16 22 £475 -8.65% 29
North London +2 2 £438 +191.67% 10
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 158 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 113 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (3.02%) Apache
4 66 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
5 64 (2.22%) Confluence
6 54 (1.88%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.94%) IIS
8 21 (0.73%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
9 11 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.35%) nginx
10 10 (0.35%) Site Server
11 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.24%) Skype for Business
12 6 (0.21%) JBoss
12 6 (0.21%) Tornado
13 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 62 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 31 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.069%) Sketch
8 2 (0.069%) Trello
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.035%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.035%) InDesign
9 1 (0.035%) InVision
9 1 (0.035%) Marvel
9 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 76 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.52%) Endur
4 10 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.28%) Shopify
7 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 5 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
10 3 (0.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.10%) Primavera
11 2 (0.069%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.069%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
11 2 (0.069%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 768 (26.69%) AWS
2 647 (22.48%) Azure DevOps
3 388 (13.48%) GCP
4 335 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
5 319 (11.08%) Power Platform
6 301 (10.46%) Entra ID
7 166 (5.77%) Serverless
8 163 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 149 (5.18%) Dynamics 365
10 144 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 134 (4.66%) GitHub
12 116 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 116 (4.03%) PaaS
13 108 (3.75%) IaaS
14 104 (3.61%) Azure Functions
15 100 (3.47%) Power Automate
16 97 (3.37%) PowerApps
17 95 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
18 92 (3.20%) SaaS
19 87 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 169 (5.87%) Firewall
2 113 (3.93%) DNS
3 60 (2.08%) VPN
4 50 (1.74%) DHCP
5 49 (1.70%) WAN
6 47 (1.63%) LAN
7 44 (1.53%) Network Security
8 34 (1.18%) MPLS
9 31 (1.08%) TCP/IP
10 29 (1.01%) Wireless
11 28 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 26 (0.90%) SAN
13 25 (0.87%) VLAN
14 24 (0.83%) OSPF
15 23 (0.80%) Internet
16 22 (0.76%) BGP
17 21 (0.73%) HTTP
18 19 (0.66%) IPsec
19 18 (0.63%) NAS
20 13 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (14.87%) SQL Server
2 249 (8.65%) Power BI
3 181 (6.29%) Data Lake
4 161 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
5 153 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
6 133 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 110 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 96 (3.34%) Big Data
9 56 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 53 (1.84%) Relational Database
11 50 (1.74%) MongoDB
12 49 (1.70%) MySQL
13 48 (1.67%) Apache Ignite
14 35 (1.22%) Tableau
15 27 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 23 (0.80%) Metadata
17 22 (0.76%) Delta Lake
17 22 (0.76%) RDBMS
18 21 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 19 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 211 (7.33%) Git
2 117 (4.07%) JIRA
3 99 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.33%) GitLab
5 54 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 49 (1.70%) SpecFlow
7 47 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 41 (1.42%) Selenium
9 30 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 29 (1.01%) Maven
10 29 (1.01%) Postman
11 19 (0.66%) JMeter
12 17 (0.59%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 14 (0.49%) WebDriver
14 11 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio Team System
15 10 (0.35%) SoapUI
16 9 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 769 (26.72%) Finance
2 619 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 289 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 251 (8.72%) Banking
5 228 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 173 (6.01%) Front Office
7 90 (3.13%) Marketing
8 74 (2.57%) Retail
9 73 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
10 53 (1.84%) Back Office
11 43 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 43 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 38 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.25%) Law
14 35 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 34 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.04%) Legal
17 25 (0.87%) Electronics
17 25 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 644 (22.38%) Developer
2 469 (16.30%) Architect
3 347 (12.06%) Senior
4 285 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
5 207 (7.19%) Data Engineer
6 184 (6.39%) Lead
7 170 (5.91%) Analyst
8 163 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 157 (5.46%) Consultant
10 154 (5.35%) Senior Developer
11 136 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
12 124 (4.31%) .NET Developer
13 117 (4.07%) Python Developer
14 113 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
15 106 (3.68%) C# Developer
16 99 (3.44%) Data Architect
17 94 (3.27%) Azure Data Engineer
17 94 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
18 90 (3.13%) Azure Developer
19 88 (3.06%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 469 (16.30%) .NET
2 209 (7.26%) React
3 163 (5.66%) .NET Core
4 149 (5.18%) XML
5 123 (4.27%) HTML
6 118 (4.10%) .NET Framework
6 118 (4.10%) REST
7 103 (3.58%) AngularJS
8 98 (3.41%) CSS
8 98 (3.41%) Kafka
9 91 (3.16%) PySpark
10 85 (2.95%) ASP.NET
11 83 (2.88%) Node.js
11 83 (2.88%) Redux
12 75 (2.61%) JSON
13 65 (2.26%) Web Services
14 61 (2.12%) gRPC
15 58 (2.02%) Protocol Buffers
16 57 (1.98%) RESTful
17 54 (1.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 143 (4.97%) Product Ownership
2 109 (3.79%) Fixed Income
3 103 (3.58%) Hedge funds
4 90 (3.13%) Derivative
5 86 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 76 (2.64%) Equities
7 75 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 60 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 59 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 58 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 58 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 53 (1.84%) Onboarding
12 41 (1.42%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 37 (1.29%) PKI
15 32 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 26 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
17 25 (0.87%) Mobile App
17 25 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
17 25 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 342 (11.88%) Windows
2 179 (6.22%) Linux
3 132 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.63%) Unix
6 29 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.73%) Android
7 21 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.45%) VMS
10 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.42%) Windows 7
10 12 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.38%) Solaris
12 10 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.31%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.21%) CentOS
16 3 (0.10%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (36.69%) DevOps
2 895 (31.10%) Agile
3 464 (16.12%) CI/CD
4 355 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
5 351 (12.20%) Software Engineering
6 330 (11.47%) Migration
7 288 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
8 285 (9.90%) Scrum
9 256 (8.90%) Analytics
10 231 (8.03%) Data Modelling
11 193 (6.71%) ETL
12 183 (6.36%) TDD
13 180 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
14 166 (5.77%) Microservices
15 163 (5.66%) Computer Science
16 162 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 150 (5.21%) Project Delivery
17 150 (5.21%) Test Automation
18 149 (5.18%) Asset Management
19 138 (4.79%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 629 (21.86%) SQL
2 586 (20.36%) Python
3 511 (17.76%) C#
4 412 (14.32%) PowerShell
5 243 (8.44%) JavaScript
6 182 (6.32%) Java
7 181 (6.29%) TypeScript
8 108 (3.75%) Bicep
9 66 (2.29%) Bash
10 56 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.46%) Scala
12 38 (1.32%) C++
13 30 (1.04%) R
14 29 (1.01%) Go
15 22 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 18 (0.63%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.52%) PHP
18 15 (0.52%) Rust
19 14 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 268 (9.31%) Security Cleared
2 263 (9.14%) Degree
3 235 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 103 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.39%) CISSP
9 35 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 29 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 27 (0.94%) CISM
13 22 (0.76%) CCNP
14 20 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.45%) CCNA
17 11 (0.38%) PMP
18 10 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 10 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 9 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (3.82%) QA
2 93 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 51 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (1.74%) NIST
5 48 (1.67%) GDPR
6 37 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 32 (1.11%) SLA
9 20 (0.69%) WCAG
10 16 (0.56%) NCSC
11 14 (0.49%) PMO
12 10 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.35%) GRC
13 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.21%) COBIT
15 5 (0.17%) IFRS
15 5 (0.17%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.17%) ISO 31000
15 5 (0.17%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 424 (14.73%) Active Directory
2 204 (7.09%) Docker
3 75 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.70%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.49%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) Firmware
9 7 (0.24%) ACF2
9 7 (0.24%) IAG
9 7 (0.24%) RACF
9 7 (0.24%) XenApp
10 6 (0.21%) KVM
10 6 (0.21%) NFS
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.17%) vCloud
12 4 (0.14%) Shibboleth
13 2 (0.069%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.069%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.069%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 285 (9.90%) Terraform
2 248 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 124 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 100 (3.47%) Ansible
5 68 (2.36%) SCCM
6 38 (1.32%) Puppet
7 34 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (0.83%) Grafana
10 22 (0.76%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.56%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.52%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.45%) Argo
14 13 (0.45%) SCOM
15 12 (0.42%) PingFederate
16 11 (0.38%) Netcool
17 9 (0.31%) Kibana
18 8 (0.28%) Data Guard
18 8 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 966 (33.56%) Microsoft
2 225 (7.82%) Databricks
3 182 (6.32%) Oracle
4 131 (4.55%) Google
5 120 (4.17%) VMware
6 84 (2.92%) SAP
7 72 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.43%) Cisco
9 57 (1.98%) Splunk
10 46 (1.60%) Citrix
11 42 (1.46%) CyberArk
12 39 (1.36%) Salesforce
13 31 (1.08%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.01%) MuleSoft
15 28 (0.97%) F5
15 28 (0.97%) Informatica
15 28 (0.97%) Red Hat
16 26 (0.90%) Okta
17 25 (0.87%) IBM
18 24 (0.83%) Dell