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 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 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,895 4,363 6,940
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.58% 16.86% 18.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.04% 43.26% 43.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,128 3,175 5,146
10th Percentile £375 £413 £418
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 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 18
10th Percentile £18.21 £21.80 £22.26
25th Percentile £22.08 £24.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £23.40 £40.00 £44.40
Median % change year-on-year -41.50% -9.91% -22.11%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £83.44
90th Percentile - £95.00 £92.13
England median hourly rate £35.00 £60.70 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.34% +27.79% -8.21%

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 6,727 10,085 15,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.54% 38.97% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,962 7,407 12,018
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 £769
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 83 80
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.14 £19.77
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +18.01% +20.15%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.81
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.60
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

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 16 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 16 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 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
Central London +1 460 £550 -4.35% 195
West London +6 39 £475 -32.14% 48
East London +1 39 £540 +4.85% 44
South London +6 21 £475 -13.64% 27
North London +2 2 £438 +191.67% 9
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
1 159 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 110 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 109 (3.77%) Apache
4 82 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
5 63 (2.18%) Confluence
6 62 (2.14%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.90%) IIS
8 24 (0.83%) CMS
9 12 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
10 11 (0.38%) nginx
11 10 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.28%) Site Server
13 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.24%) JBoss
14 6 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 6 (0.21%) Skype for Business
14 6 (0.21%) Tornado
15 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
15 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
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 77 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.59%) Endur
4 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.28%) Shopify
4 8 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.21%) 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 (0.069%) BusinessWorks
11 1 (0.035%) FLEXCUBE
11 1 (0.035%) ION MarketView
11 1 (0.035%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 777 (26.84%) AWS
2 645 (22.28%) Azure DevOps
3 400 (13.82%) GCP
4 331 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
5 317 (10.95%) Power Platform
6 308 (10.64%) Entra ID
7 167 (5.77%) Serverless
8 162 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 160 (5.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 153 (5.28%) Dynamics 365
11 132 (4.56%) GitHub
12 124 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 112 (3.87%) PaaS
14 104 (3.59%) Azure Functions
15 103 (3.56%) PowerApps
16 102 (3.52%) IaaS
17 100 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
18 99 (3.42%) Power Automate
19 86 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
19 86 (2.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (5.80%) Firewall
2 101 (3.49%) DNS
3 53 (1.83%) VPN
4 47 (1.62%) WAN
5 45 (1.55%) LAN
6 44 (1.52%) DHCP
7 42 (1.45%) Network Security
8 34 (1.17%) MPLS
9 28 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.93%) TCP/IP
11 26 (0.90%) Wireless
12 24 (0.83%) Internet
12 24 (0.83%) OSPF
13 23 (0.79%) VLAN
14 22 (0.76%) BGP
14 22 (0.76%) HTTP
14 22 (0.76%) SAN
15 18 (0.62%) IPsec
16 16 (0.55%) NAS
17 14 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 438 (15.13%) SQL Server
2 248 (8.57%) Power BI
3 182 (6.29%) Data Lake
4 160 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
5 154 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
6 153 (5.28%) NoSQL
7 114 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 104 (3.59%) Big Data
9 64 (2.21%) Apache Ignite
10 59 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.76%) MySQL
12 49 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 44 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 36 (1.24%) Tableau
15 26 (0.90%) Redis
16 25 (0.86%) RDBMS
17 22 (0.76%) Delta Lake
18 21 (0.73%) Metadata
18 21 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 17 (0.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 210 (7.25%) Git
2 103 (3.56%) JIRA
3 91 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 68 (2.35%) GitLab
5 67 (2.31%) Cypress.io
6 50 (1.73%) SpecFlow
7 47 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 42 (1.45%) Selenium
9 27 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 22 (0.76%) Maven
11 20 (0.69%) Postman
12 19 (0.66%) JMeter
13 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 14 (0.48%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
17 10 (0.35%) CircleCI
18 9 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
18 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
19 8 (0.28%) ERwin
General
1 797 (27.53%) Finance
2 624 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 299 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 272 (9.40%) Banking
5 238 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 194 (6.70%) Front Office
7 83 (2.87%) Marketing
8 73 (2.52%) Retail
9 68 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 65 (2.25%) Back Office
11 45 (1.55%) Investment Banking
12 39 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 38 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 37 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (1.28%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.17%) Legal
16 32 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 29 (1.00%) Law
18 24 (0.83%) Local Government
19 22 (0.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 667 (23.04%) Developer
2 474 (16.37%) Architect
3 355 (12.26%) Senior
4 280 (9.67%) Azure Engineer
5 208 (7.18%) Data Engineer
6 185 (6.39%) Analyst
6 185 (6.39%) Lead
7 179 (6.18%) Software Engineer
8 159 (5.49%) Consultant
8 159 (5.49%) Senior Developer
9 135 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
10 132 (4.56%) Python Developer
11 121 (4.18%) .NET Developer
12 119 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
13 108 (3.73%) C# Developer
14 107 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
15 101 (3.49%) Data Architect
16 95 (3.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 94 (3.25%) Azure Developer
18 93 (3.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (17.03%) .NET
2 233 (8.05%) React
3 171 (5.91%) .NET Core
4 160 (5.53%) XML
5 142 (4.91%) HTML
6 124 (4.28%) .NET Framework
7 117 (4.04%) REST
8 105 (3.63%) AngularJS
9 104 (3.59%) CSS
10 103 (3.56%) Kafka
11 99 (3.42%) PySpark
12 96 (3.32%) Redux
13 91 (3.14%) ASP.NET
14 77 (2.66%) gRPC
15 74 (2.56%) JSON
16 73 (2.52%) Protocol Buffers
17 72 (2.49%) Node.js
18 70 (2.42%) Web Services
19 67 (2.31%) Material-UI
20 58 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 155 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 119 (4.11%) Fixed Income
3 118 (4.08%) Hedge funds
4 85 (2.94%) Derivative
5 83 (2.87%) Cloud Native
5 83 (2.87%) Equities
6 71 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 62 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 60 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 55 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 54 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
11 51 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 43 (1.49%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
14 35 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.17%) PKI
16 27 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
17 25 (0.86%) Algorithms
17 25 (0.86%) Mobile App
17 25 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 340 (11.74%) Windows
2 180 (6.22%) Linux
3 116 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.73%) Unix
6 32 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (0.66%) Android
9 16 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.38%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.35%) VMS
12 10 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.31%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.28%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.24%) Solaris
16 6 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
17 4 (0.14%) CentOS
18 2 (0.069%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,034 (35.72%) DevOps
2 914 (31.57%) Agile
3 481 (16.61%) CI/CD
4 371 (12.82%) Software Engineering
5 358 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
6 336 (11.61%) Migration
7 283 (9.78%) Scrum
8 277 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
9 264 (9.12%) Analytics
10 228 (7.88%) Data Modelling
11 193 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
12 183 (6.32%) ETL
13 180 (6.22%) TDD
14 174 (6.01%) Computer Science
15 173 (5.98%) Microservices
16 165 (5.70%) Asset Management
17 159 (5.49%) Test Automation
18 158 (5.46%) Infrastructure as Code
19 144 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence
20 142 (4.91%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 655 (22.63%) SQL
2 611 (21.11%) Python
3 526 (18.17%) C#
4 411 (14.20%) PowerShell
5 255 (8.81%) JavaScript
6 202 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 196 (6.77%) Java
8 119 (4.11%) Bicep
9 66 (2.28%) Bash
10 54 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.66%) Scala
12 40 (1.38%) C++
13 39 (1.35%) Go
14 30 (1.04%) R
15 22 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 17 (0.59%) Ruby
19 15 (0.52%) PHP
19 15 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 270 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 269 (9.29%) Degree
3 234 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 107 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 107 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (1.55%) CISSP
7 38 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.90%) CISM
11 20 (0.69%) CCNP
12 19 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.45%) CCNA
15 11 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.35%) CISA
17 9 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (3.97%) QA
2 92 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 50 (1.73%) GDPR
4 48 (1.66%) NIST
5 47 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 44 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.14%) SLA
8 32 (1.11%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.73%) WCAG
10 12 (0.41%) NCSC
10 12 (0.41%) PMO
11 10 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.31%) GRC
13 8 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.17%) COBIT
16 4 (0.14%) IFRS
16 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 3 (0.10%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 425 (14.68%) Active Directory
2 214 (7.39%) Docker
3 69 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.48%) vSphere
8 10 (0.35%) 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 3 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.10%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.069%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 281 (9.71%) Terraform
2 264 (9.12%) Kubernetes
3 121 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 97 (3.35%) Ansible
5 64 (2.21%) SCCM
6 45 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 36 (1.24%) Puppet
8 24 (0.83%) Grafana
9 23 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (0.62%) Prometheus
11 17 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.48%) PingFederate
14 13 (0.45%) FortiGate
15 11 (0.38%) Argo
16 10 (0.35%) SCOM
17 9 (0.31%) Kibana
17 9 (0.31%) Netcool
18 8 (0.28%) Podman
19 7 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 959 (33.13%) Microsoft
2 227 (7.84%) Databricks
3 189 (6.53%) Oracle
4 147 (5.08%) Google
5 116 (4.01%) VMware
6 88 (3.04%) SAP
7 72 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 64 (2.21%) Cisco
9 56 (1.93%) Splunk
10 50 (1.73%) CyberArk
11 46 (1.59%) Citrix
12 38 (1.31%) Salesforce
13 32 (1.11%) MuleSoft
14 29 (1.00%) F5
14 29 (1.00%) Informatica
15 28 (0.97%) Okta
16 26 (0.90%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.79%) NetApp
17 23 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 22 (0.76%) Dell