Azure Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 330 394
Rank change year-on-year -8 +64 -48
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 56 120 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.52% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.55% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 106 96
10th Percentile £391 £425 £364
25th Percentile £502 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £494
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +16.46% +10.96%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £697 £656
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK excluding London

Azure Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Developer within the UK excluding 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
South East -2 34 £625 +4.17% 8
North of England 0 11 £475 -5.00% 5
Midlands +23 8 £580 +10.48% 9
West Midlands +22 8 £580 +10.48% 9
North West +12 6 £475 -9.52% 3
Yorkshire -5 4 £350 -26.32% 1
Scotland +31 1 £375 -37.50%
North East +11 1 - - 1
East of England +9 1 £600 -
South West -4 1 - - 4
Azure Developer
UK

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Azure Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (64.29%) DevOps
3 33 (58.93%) Full Stack Development
4 24 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 24 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (41.07%) Serverless
5 23 (41.07%) Azure Functions
5 23 (41.07%) Python
6 22 (39.29%) Agile
7 21 (37.50%) Microservices
7 21 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
8 20 (35.71%) Git
9 19 (33.93%) Product Ownership
9 19 (33.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (32.14%) NoSQL
10 18 (32.14%) React
10 18 (32.14%) SDLC
11 17 (30.36%) Entra ID
11 17 (30.36%) Active Directory
12 16 (28.57%) C#
13 15 (26.79%) Product Backlog
13 15 (26.79%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (25.00%) .NET
14 14 (25.00%) Unit Testing
15 13 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
16 12 (21.43%) Change Management
17 10 (17.86%) SQL
18 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
18 9 (16.07%) Finance

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 23 (41.07%) Azure Functions
3 23 (41.07%) Serverless
4 21 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (33.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (30.36%) Entra ID
7 15 (26.79%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (10.71%) Azure API Management
10 5 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
12 3 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (3.57%) GitHub
13 2 (3.57%) PaaS
14 1 (1.79%) OCI
14 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) NoSQL
2 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.36%) Power BI
4 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.57%) GIS
5 2 (3.57%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.57%) Redis
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (35.71%) Git
2 3 (5.36%) Selenium
2 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.57%) Postman
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Music Industry
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Advertising
6 1 (1.79%) Back Office
6 1 (1.79%) Electronics
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) React
2 14 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.36%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.36%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (5.36%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.36%) REST
5 2 (3.57%) Django
5 2 (3.57%) Node.js
5 2 (3.57%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.57%) OpenID
5 2 (3.57%) OpenLayers
5 2 (3.57%) PostGIS
5 2 (3.57%) SignalR
5 2 (3.57%) Swagger
6 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.79%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.93%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) DevOps
2 33 (58.93%) Full Stack Development
3 24 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 22 (39.29%) Agile
5 21 (37.50%) Microservices
6 18 (32.14%) SDLC
7 15 (26.79%) Product Backlog
8 14 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 13 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (21.43%) Change Management
11 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
12 8 (14.29%) Human-in-the-Loop
12 8 (14.29%) Machine Learning
12 8 (14.29%) Use Case
12 8 (14.29%) Workflow
13 6 (10.71%) SOLID
13 6 (10.71%) TDD
14 5 (8.93%) OO
15 4 (7.14%) API Management
15 4 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) C#
3 10 (17.86%) SQL
4 5 (8.93%) Java
4 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.36%) C
6 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.79%) Bicep
7 1 (1.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.79%) mParticle
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle
2 1 (1.79%) SAP