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 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 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,962 4,284 6,951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.94% 16.85% 17.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.51% 43.30% 43.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 3,126 5,172
10th Percentile £375 £413 £414
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £789 £775
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 20
10th Percentile £18.21 £22.63 £22.91
25th Percentile £22.08 £29.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.67% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £85.00
90th Percentile - £83.75 £91.31
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -44.44% +36.22% -14.35%

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 6,807 9,894 15,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.93% 38.91% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,019 7,270 12,034
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
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 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 76 69
10th Percentile £17.16 £19.47 £19.96
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +29.63% +0.62%
75th Percentile £38.13 £76.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.50 £90.00 £79.50
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
Central London +1 470 £550 -4.35% 172
West London +11 42 £475 -32.14% 36
East London +1 37 £538 +4.37% 12
South London +5 17 £430 -21.10% 14
North London +2 2 £438 +59.09% 6
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
1 157 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 117 (3.95%) Apache
3 101 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 90 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
5 67 (2.26%) Apache Spark
6 60 (2.03%) Confluence
7 28 (0.95%) IIS
8 25 (0.84%) CMS
9 12 (0.41%) nginx
10 10 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.27%) Anypoint
12 8 (0.27%) Site Server
13 6 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
14 5 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 54 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.068%) Trello
8 1 (0.034%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.034%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 78 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.51%) Endur
4 9 (0.30%) Shopify
5 8 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
7 5 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.10%) Primavera
10 2 (0.068%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.068%) Maximo
11 1 (0.034%) ION MarketView
11 1 (0.034%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 779 (26.30%) AWS
2 672 (22.69%) Azure DevOps
3 411 (13.88%) GCP
4 324 (10.94%) Power Platform
5 315 (10.63%) Entra ID
5 315 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
6 173 (5.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 166 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 160 (5.40%) Serverless
9 158 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
10 128 (4.32%) GitHub
11 124 (4.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 124 (4.19%) PaaS
12 108 (3.65%) IaaS
13 103 (3.48%) PowerApps
14 100 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 98 (3.31%) Power Automate
16 97 (3.27%) Azure Functions
17 89 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 89 (3.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 163 (5.50%) Firewall
2 94 (3.17%) DNS
3 52 (1.76%) VPN
4 49 (1.65%) WAN
5 46 (1.55%) LAN
6 41 (1.38%) Network Security
7 40 (1.35%) DHCP
8 30 (1.01%) MPLS
9 27 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 26 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 25 (0.84%) Internet
11 25 (0.84%) Wireless
12 23 (0.78%) OSPF
12 23 (0.78%) SAN
13 21 (0.71%) BGP
14 18 (0.61%) HTTP
14 18 (0.61%) IPsec
14 18 (0.61%) VLAN
15 17 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (0.51%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 450 (15.19%) SQL Server
2 259 (8.74%) Power BI
3 190 (6.41%) Data Lake
4 171 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 159 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 155 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
7 129 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 108 (3.65%) Big Data
9 68 (2.30%) Apache Ignite
10 62 (2.09%) Relational Database
11 50 (1.69%) MySQL
12 49 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 48 (1.62%) Tableau
14 47 (1.59%) MongoDB
15 32 (1.08%) Redis
16 26 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.81%) RDBMS
18 21 (0.71%) Delta Lake
19 19 (0.64%) Metadata
20 17 (0.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 222 (7.49%) Git
2 102 (3.44%) JIRA
3 98 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 70 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 66 (2.23%) GitLab
6 52 (1.76%) SpecFlow
7 48 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 46 (1.55%) Selenium
9 24 (0.81%) Postman
10 23 (0.78%) Maven
10 23 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 21 (0.71%) JMeter
12 19 (0.64%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 14 (0.47%) WebDriver
15 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
18 8 (0.27%) LoadRunner
18 8 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 820 (27.68%) Finance
2 640 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 292 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 283 (9.55%) Banking
5 250 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 203 (6.85%) Front Office
7 77 (2.60%) Marketing
7 77 (2.60%) Retail
8 66 (2.23%) Back Office
9 61 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (1.55%) Investment Banking
11 38 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (1.22%) Legal
14 35 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.08%) Manufacturing
17 26 (0.88%) Law
18 21 (0.71%) General Ledger
19 20 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 693 (23.40%) Developer
2 478 (16.14%) Architect
3 363 (12.26%) Senior
4 293 (9.89%) Azure Engineer
5 215 (7.26%) Data Engineer
6 186 (6.28%) Software Engineer
7 181 (6.11%) Analyst
8 178 (6.01%) Lead
9 169 (5.71%) Consultant
10 165 (5.57%) Senior Developer
11 139 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
12 135 (4.56%) Python Developer
13 130 (4.39%) .NET Developer
14 128 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 112 (3.78%) C# Developer
16 111 (3.75%) Full Stack Developer
17 100 (3.38%) Data Architect
18 99 (3.34%) Python Engineer
19 98 (3.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 93 (3.14%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (17.18%) .NET
2 239 (8.07%) React
3 172 (5.81%) .NET Core
4 161 (5.44%) XML
5 150 (5.06%) HTML
6 129 (4.36%) .NET Framework
7 119 (4.02%) REST
8 114 (3.85%) Kafka
9 113 (3.81%) AngularJS
10 109 (3.68%) CSS
11 103 (3.48%) PySpark
12 98 (3.31%) Redux
13 92 (3.11%) ASP.NET
14 81 (2.73%) gRPC
15 77 (2.60%) Protocol Buffers
16 72 (2.43%) Web Services
17 71 (2.40%) Material-UI
18 69 (2.33%) JSON
19 68 (2.30%) Node.js
20 65 (2.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 158 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 120 (4.05%) Hedge funds
3 117 (3.95%) Fixed Income
4 82 (2.77%) Derivative
4 82 (2.77%) Equities
5 78 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 71 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 60 (2.03%) Data Structures
7 60 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 57 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 52 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
10 47 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 47 (1.59%) Management Information System
11 39 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 36 (1.22%) PKI
13 31 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 29 (0.98%) Algorithms
15 28 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 27 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
17 24 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 333 (11.24%) Windows
2 175 (5.91%) Linux
3 112 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 55 (1.86%) Unix
6 29 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (0.54%) Android
9 15 (0.51%) VMS
10 14 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.34%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.27%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.27%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.20%) Solaris
14 6 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.14%) CentOS
17 2 (0.068%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,051 (35.48%) DevOps
2 935 (31.57%) Agile
3 496 (16.75%) CI/CD
4 380 (12.83%) Software Engineering
5 370 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
6 351 (11.85%) Migration
7 293 (9.89%) Scrum
8 287 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
9 278 (9.39%) Analytics
10 240 (8.10%) Data Modelling
11 198 (6.68%) Computer Science
12 195 (6.58%) Full Stack Development
13 187 (6.31%) ETL
14 186 (6.28%) TDD
15 181 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
16 180 (6.08%) Microservices
17 167 (5.64%) Asset Management
18 158 (5.33%) Test Automation
19 150 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence
20 148 (5.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 682 (23.02%) SQL
2 621 (20.97%) Python
3 537 (18.13%) C#
4 418 (14.11%) PowerShell
5 248 (8.37%) JavaScript
6 208 (7.02%) Java
7 200 (6.75%) TypeScript
8 121 (4.09%) Bicep
9 67 (2.26%) Bash
10 59 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 50 (1.69%) Scala
12 39 (1.32%) C++
12 39 (1.32%) Go
13 29 (0.98%) R
14 27 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 24 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.61%) Ruby
17 17 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.54%) Rust
19 15 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 299 (10.09%) Degree
2 278 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 236 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 122 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 119 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 43 (1.45%) CISSP
9 39 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 37 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 30 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (0.95%) CISM
13 21 (0.71%) CCNP
14 18 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.47%) CCNA
16 13 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.41%) CISA
18 11 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 9 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 9 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (3.65%) QA
2 100 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 53 (1.79%) GDPR
4 52 (1.76%) PCI DSS
5 44 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.38%) NIST
7 37 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.05%) SLA
9 22 (0.74%) WCAG
10 12 (0.41%) PMO
11 10 (0.34%) NCSC
12 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.24%) COBIT
13 7 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.24%) GRC
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.14%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.10%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 429 (14.48%) Active Directory
2 229 (7.73%) Docker
3 72 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 26 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.44%) vSphere
8 10 (0.34%) Firmware
9 7 (0.24%) ACF2
9 7 (0.24%) IAG
9 7 (0.24%) RACF
9 7 (0.24%) XenApp
10 6 (0.20%) KVM
10 6 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.17%) NFS
11 5 (0.17%) vCloud
12 4 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.14%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 307 (10.36%) Terraform
2 283 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 123 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 102 (3.44%) Ansible
5 68 (2.30%) SCCM
6 44 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 37 (1.25%) Puppet
8 27 (0.91%) Grafana
9 21 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (0.64%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.47%) PingFederate
13 13 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.37%) Argo
14 11 (0.37%) SCOM
15 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.27%) Netcool
16 8 (0.27%) Podman
16 8 (0.27%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 978 (33.02%) Microsoft
2 222 (7.49%) Databricks
3 178 (6.01%) Oracle
4 161 (5.44%) Google
5 115 (3.88%) VMware
6 94 (3.17%) SAP
7 76 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.19%) Cisco
9 52 (1.76%) Splunk
10 50 (1.69%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.49%) Salesforce
12 43 (1.45%) Citrix
13 32 (1.08%) MuleSoft
14 31 (1.05%) F5
15 30 (1.01%) Informatica
16 28 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 25 (0.84%) NetApp
18 24 (0.81%) Okta
19 22 (0.74%) Adobe
19 22 (0.74%) BeyondTrust