Azure Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 3,015 4,294 6,879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 17.05% 17.07% 17.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.63% 43.49% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,213 3,122 5,134
10th Percentile £375 £409 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 17
10th Percentile £18.21 £22.69 £30.29
25th Percentile £22.08 £32.25 £41.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £57.75 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -58.79% -0.24% +1.56%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.63 £85.00
90th Percentile - £72.50 £92.54
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -12.04%

All Cloud Skills
London

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,910 9,873 15,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.08% 39.26% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,084 7,274 11,930
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 £780 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 77 63
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.57 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +32.53% +23.88%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £56.50 £88.98 £81.75
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +1 477 £550 -7.95% 173
West London +10 43 £475 -32.14% 45
East London +2 37 £538 +7.50% 37
South London +4 17 £430 -18.10% 26
North London 0 2 £438 +59.09% 11
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
1 163 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 123 (4.08%) Apache
3 103 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 94 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
5 76 (2.52%) Apache Spark
6 65 (2.16%) Confluence
7 30 (1.00%) IIS
8 25 (0.83%) CMS
9 12 (0.40%) nginx
9 12 (0.40%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.27%) Site Server
11 7 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
12 6 (0.20%) JBoss
12 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
13 5 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 54 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.066%) Trello
7 1 (0.033%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 86 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
3 14 (0.46%) 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 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
7 5 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.13%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.100%) Primavera
10 2 (0.066%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.066%) Maximo
11 1 (0.033%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 786 (26.07%) AWS
2 680 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
3 420 (13.93%) GCP
4 329 (10.91%) Entra ID
5 327 (10.85%) Power Platform
6 325 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
7 173 (5.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 167 (5.54%) Dynamics 365
9 164 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 160 (5.31%) Serverless
11 138 (4.58%) GitHub
12 131 (4.34%) PaaS
13 123 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 115 (3.81%) IaaS
15 102 (3.38%) PowerApps
16 99 (3.28%) Azure Functions
16 99 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
16 99 (3.28%) Power Automate
17 95 (3.15%) SaaS
18 92 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 163 (5.41%) Firewall
2 96 (3.18%) DNS
3 51 (1.69%) VPN
4 48 (1.59%) WAN
5 43 (1.43%) LAN
6 40 (1.33%) DHCP
7 39 (1.29%) Network Security
8 30 (1.00%) MPLS
9 29 (0.96%) TCP/IP
10 26 (0.86%) Internet
11 25 (0.83%) SD-WAN
12 24 (0.80%) Wireless
13 22 (0.73%) OSPF
13 22 (0.73%) SAN
14 21 (0.70%) BGP
15 20 (0.66%) HTTP
16 17 (0.56%) IPsec
16 17 (0.56%) VLAN
17 16 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
18 15 (0.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 260 (8.62%) Power BI
3 199 (6.60%) Data Lake
4 186 (6.17%) NoSQL
5 171 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
6 159 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
7 132 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 117 (3.88%) Big Data
9 68 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
10 66 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 56 (1.86%) Tableau
12 52 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 51 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 49 (1.63%) MySQL
15 34 (1.13%) Redis
16 27 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 25 (0.83%) RDBMS
18 21 (0.70%) Delta Lake
18 21 (0.70%) Metadata
19 17 (0.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 226 (7.50%) Git
2 108 (3.58%) JIRA
3 98 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 70 (2.32%) Cypress.io
5 67 (2.22%) GitLab
6 55 (1.82%) Visual Studio
7 51 (1.69%) SpecFlow
8 47 (1.56%) Selenium
9 24 (0.80%) Postman
10 23 (0.76%) JMeter
10 23 (0.76%) Maven
10 23 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 21 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.53%) Visual Studio Team System
13 15 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 14 (0.46%) WebDriver
15 12 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
18 8 (0.27%) Gradle
General
1 830 (27.53%) Finance
2 661 (21.92%) Social Skills
3 301 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 295 (9.78%) Banking
5 259 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 198 (6.57%) Front Office
7 75 (2.49%) Marketing
8 74 (2.45%) Retail
9 66 (2.19%) Back Office
10 61 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 40 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 39 (1.29%) Legal
14 36 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 36 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 33 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 25 (0.83%) Law
18 21 (0.70%) Electronics
19 19 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 701 (23.25%) Developer
2 480 (15.92%) Architect
3 379 (12.57%) Senior
4 300 (9.95%) Azure Engineer
5 223 (7.40%) Data Engineer
6 187 (6.20%) Lead
7 181 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 179 (5.94%) Analyst
9 176 (5.84%) Senior Developer
10 171 (5.67%) Consultant
11 138 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
12 136 (4.51%) Python Developer
13 135 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
14 129 (4.28%) .NET Developer
15 111 (3.68%) Full Stack Developer
16 110 (3.65%) C# Developer
17 100 (3.32%) Python Engineer
18 99 (3.28%) Data Architect
19 96 (3.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 91 (3.02%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (17.35%) .NET
2 241 (7.99%) React
3 172 (5.70%) .NET Core
4 163 (5.41%) XML
5 159 (5.27%) HTML
6 134 (4.44%) .NET Framework
7 123 (4.08%) REST
8 121 (4.01%) Kafka
9 112 (3.71%) AngularJS
10 111 (3.68%) CSS
11 109 (3.62%) PySpark
12 100 (3.32%) ASP.NET
13 96 (3.18%) Redux
14 83 (2.75%) gRPC
15 78 (2.59%) Protocol Buffers
16 73 (2.42%) Web Services
17 72 (2.39%) JSON
17 72 (2.39%) RESTful
18 71 (2.35%) Material-UI
19 66 (2.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 155 (5.14%) Product Ownership
2 116 (3.85%) Hedge funds
3 113 (3.75%) Fixed Income
4 78 (2.59%) Equities
5 77 (2.55%) Cloud Native
6 74 (2.45%) Derivative
7 69 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 63 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 60 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 59 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 51 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.56%) Management Information System
13 45 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 41 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 37 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.09%) PKI
17 32 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
18 29 (0.96%) Mobile App
19 28 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
19 28 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 341 (11.31%) Windows
2 171 (5.67%) Linux
3 115 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 54 (1.79%) Unix
6 28 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.70%) Android
7 21 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (0.60%) VMS
9 13 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.33%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.27%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.27%) Solaris
14 7 (0.23%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
17 4 (0.13%) CentOS
18 2 (0.066%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,057 (35.06%) DevOps
2 947 (31.41%) Agile
3 526 (17.45%) CI/CD
4 382 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
5 381 (12.64%) Software Engineering
6 354 (11.74%) Migration
7 299 (9.92%) Scrum
8 294 (9.75%) Analytics
9 288 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
10 258 (8.56%) Data Modelling
11 208 (6.90%) Computer Science
12 200 (6.63%) ETL
13 196 (6.50%) Full Stack Development
14 194 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 184 (6.10%) Microservices
16 183 (6.07%) TDD
17 165 (5.47%) Asset Management
18 162 (5.37%) Test Automation
19 159 (5.27%) Machine Learning
20 158 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 697 (23.12%) SQL
2 629 (20.86%) Python
3 551 (18.28%) C#
4 427 (14.16%) PowerShell
5 250 (8.29%) JavaScript
6 216 (7.16%) Java
7 199 (6.60%) TypeScript
8 119 (3.95%) Bicep
9 70 (2.32%) Bash
10 67 (2.22%) T-SQL
11 50 (1.66%) Scala
12 38 (1.26%) C++
13 37 (1.23%) Go
14 34 (1.13%) R
15 24 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 22 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.63%) Ruby
18 16 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.53%) Rust
19 15 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 311 (10.32%) Degree
2 295 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 251 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 127 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 122 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 43 (1.43%) CISSP
9 41 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 37 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 30 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (0.93%) CISM
13 20 (0.66%) CCNP
14 16 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.46%) CCNA
15 14 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.40%) CISA
17 9 (0.30%) PMP
18 8 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (3.58%) Data Quality
1 108 (3.58%) QA
2 54 (1.79%) GDPR
3 52 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 48 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (1.46%) NIST
6 40 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.03%) SLA
8 23 (0.76%) WCAG
9 11 (0.36%) PMO
10 10 (0.33%) NCSC
11 8 (0.27%) GRC
11 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.23%) COBIT
12 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.100%) IFRS
System Software
1 437 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 235 (7.79%) Docker
3 78 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 29 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.36%) vSphere
8 10 (0.33%) Firmware
9 7 (0.23%) ACF2
9 7 (0.23%) IAG
9 7 (0.23%) RACF
9 7 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.23%) XenApp
10 6 (0.20%) KVM
11 5 (0.17%) NFS
11 5 (0.17%) vCloud
12 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.13%) Shibboleth
12 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 326 (10.81%) Terraform
2 290 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 133 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 109 (3.62%) Ansible
5 70 (2.32%) SCCM
6 48 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 37 (1.23%) Puppet
8 27 (0.90%) Grafana
9 21 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (0.66%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.46%) PingFederate
13 13 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.36%) Argo
14 11 (0.36%) SCOM
15 9 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.27%) Netcool
16 8 (0.27%) Podman
16 8 (0.27%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,009 (33.47%) Microsoft
2 228 (7.56%) Databricks
3 181 (6.00%) Oracle
4 164 (5.44%) Google
5 119 (3.95%) VMware
6 101 (3.35%) SAP
7 77 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 66 (2.19%) Cisco
9 49 (1.63%) CyberArk
10 46 (1.53%) Splunk
11 44 (1.46%) Citrix
11 44 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 29 (0.96%) F5
12 29 (0.96%) Informatica
12 29 (0.96%) MuleSoft
13 27 (0.90%) Palo Alto
14 26 (0.86%) NetApp
15 24 (0.80%) Okta
16 22 (0.73%) Adobe
17 21 (0.70%) IBM