Azure App Service Contracts

Microsoft Azure App Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure App Service skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure App Service over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 588 770
Rank change year-on-year +60 +182 -107
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 43 99 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.085%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.47% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 69 48
10th Percentile £343 £450 £413
25th Percentile £521 £494 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year - +1.27% +15.61%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £730 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £607 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +1.17% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure App Service is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,862 20,912 33,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 36.72% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 15,137 24,583
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 333 406
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.49% +34.38% -3.76%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure App Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure App Service in the UK

Azure App Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure App Service in the UK

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure App Service over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure App Service in the UK

Azure App Service
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure App Service within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +69 39 £600 - 17
London +79 25 £600 -4.00% 9
UK excluding London +46 11 £607 +1.17% 9
Work from Home +70 9 £538 -10.42% 11
Midlands +30 8 £607 +42.82% 1
West Midlands +29 7 £607 +42.82%
North West +19 2 £625 -
North of England +17 2 £625 +16.28% 3
South West +6 1 £350 -42.86% 2
East Midlands - 1 £340 - 1

Azure App Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.33%) CMS
1 1 (2.33%) Drupal
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.33%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (44.19%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (41.86%) Azure Service Bus
4 17 (39.53%) Azure AKS
5 16 (37.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 11 (25.58%) Azure Event Grid
6 11 (25.58%) Serverless
7 10 (23.26%) Azure Functions
8 8 (18.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (16.28%) Azure Storage
10 6 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (11.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (11.63%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
12 4 (9.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (9.30%) PaaS
13 3 (6.98%) AWS
13 3 (6.98%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
1 4 (9.30%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) SSH
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (16.28%) NoSQL
2 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) SpecFlow
2 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Selenium
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) NUnit
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Banking
3 4 (9.30%) Front Office
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Azure Engineer
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 10 (23.26%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) .NET Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Angular Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (2.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (51.16%) .NET
2 11 (25.58%) Kafka
3 10 (23.26%) .NET Core
3 10 (23.26%) AngularJS
4 7 (16.28%) RESTful
5 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
6 3 (6.98%) Node.js
6 3 (6.98%) Spring
6 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.65%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) CSS3
7 2 (4.65%) HTML
7 2 (4.65%) HTML5
7 2 (4.65%) React
8 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (2.33%) Blazor
8 1 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.30%) Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) CentOS
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) DevOps
2 19 (44.19%) Microservices
3 16 (37.21%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
5 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
6 9 (20.93%) TDD
7 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
7 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
7 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (16.28%) Critical Thinking
8 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
9 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
9 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.95%) User Experience
9 6 (13.95%) UX Design
10 5 (11.63%) Analytics
10 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
10 5 (11.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) C#
1 24 (55.81%) SQL
2 14 (32.56%) Bicep
3 11 (25.58%) TypeScript
4 6 (13.95%) Java
5 4 (9.30%) Python
6 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) Bash
8 1 (2.33%) Perl
8 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
1 7 (16.28%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) Informatica
3 1 (2.33%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.33%) Virgin Media