Azure Developer Contracts

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 407 415
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 -18
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 180 297 519
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.55% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 247 414
10th Percentile £411 £429 £402
25th Percentile £499 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +10.26%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £575 £494
% change year-on-year +0.87% +16.46% +10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Developer in the UK

Azure Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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 +17 157 £580 +0.48% 45
London +57 95 £550 -8.33% 15
Work from Home +43 88 £540 -6.09% 32
UK excluding London -2 56 £580 +0.87% 33
South East +18 34 £625 +4.17% 12
North of England +7 11 £475 -9.52% 9
West Midlands +20 8 £580 +10.48% 9
Midlands +20 8 £580 +10.48% 10
North West +15 6 £475 -9.52% 6
Yorkshire -4 4 £350 -26.32% 2
Scotland +38 1 £375 -31.82%
North East +12 1 - - 1
East of England +4 1 £600 -
South West -7 1 - - 4

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 180 (100.00%) Azure
2 106 (58.89%) DevOps
3 96 (53.33%) C#
4 92 (51.11%) .NET
5 79 (43.89%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (40.00%) Agile
7 67 (37.22%) CI/CD
8 62 (34.44%) Microsoft
9 55 (30.56%) SQL Server
10 50 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
11 45 (25.00%) Git
12 44 (24.44%) React
13 42 (23.33%) Active Directory
14 41 (22.78%) Entra ID
15 40 (22.22%) Finance
16 39 (21.67%) SQL
16 39 (21.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 38 (21.11%) Serverless
17 38 (21.11%) Product Ownership
18 37 (20.56%) Azure Functions
18 37 (20.56%) PowerShell
19 36 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
20 35 (19.44%) Microservices
21 34 (18.89%) Scrum
22 33 (18.33%) Python
23 32 (17.78%) Azure Monitor
23 32 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
24 31 (17.22%) XML
25 30 (16.67%) .NET Framework
26 27 (15.00%) .NET Core

Azure Developer Skill Set
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 8 (4.44%) CMS
2 5 (2.78%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.78%) Kentico
3 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.11%) Endur
2 2 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) Azure
2 79 (43.89%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (22.78%) Entra ID
4 39 (21.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 38 (21.11%) Serverless
6 37 (20.56%) Azure Functions
7 36 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 32 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (17.78%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (13.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 22 (12.22%) Azure API Management
11 15 (8.33%) Power Platform
12 9 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (4.44%) PaaS
14 7 (3.89%) Azure AKS
15 5 (2.78%) Azure App Service
16 4 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
16 4 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
16 4 (2.22%) Azure Storage
16 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.56%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 15 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.56%) Power BI
5 7 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.33%) Redis
7 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.11%) Big Data
9 2 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.11%) GIS
9 2 (1.11%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (1.11%) OLTP
9 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.89%) Selenium
4 5 (2.78%) SpecFlow
4 5 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.11%) Postman
5 2 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) git-flow
6 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.56%) Moq
6 1 (0.56%) MSTest
6 1 (0.56%) NUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Pylint
6 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (22.22%) Finance
2 23 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.00%) Marketing
6 7 (3.89%) Law
7 6 (3.33%) Banking
8 5 (2.78%) Front Office
8 5 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.22%) Back Office
10 3 (1.67%) Electronics
10 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.67%) Music Industry
10 3 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.11%) Danish Language
11 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) International Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (51.11%) .NET
2 44 (24.44%) React
3 31 (17.22%) XML
4 30 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 27 (15.00%) .NET Core
6 23 (12.78%) HTML
7 20 (11.11%) CSS
8 18 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 12 (6.67%) REST
10 10 (5.56%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.00%) ARM Templates
11 9 (5.00%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.44%) Node.js
12 8 (4.44%) YAML
13 6 (3.33%) Kafka
14 5 (2.78%) Entity Framework
14 5 (2.78%) Express.js
14 5 (2.78%) JSON
14 5 (2.78%) koa
14 5 (2.78%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.11%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.11%) Contactless
4 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.11%) Tandem
5 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.56%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.56%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Linux
2 2 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (58.89%) DevOps
2 72 (40.00%) Agile
3 67 (37.22%) CI/CD
4 50 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
5 35 (19.44%) Microservices
6 34 (18.89%) Scrum
7 26 (14.44%) B2C
8 25 (13.89%) SDLC
9 23 (12.78%) Test Automation
10 22 (12.22%) API Management
11 21 (11.67%) Unit Testing
12 18 (10.00%) Product Backlog
12 18 (10.00%) TDD
13 16 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (7.78%) Change Management
15 14 (7.78%) Clean Code
15 14 (7.78%) SOLID
16 13 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
16 13 (7.22%) OO
Programming Languages
1 96 (53.33%) C#
2 39 (21.67%) SQL
3 37 (20.56%) PowerShell
4 33 (18.33%) Python
5 25 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.00%) Bicep
7 17 (9.44%) Java
7 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.67%) C
9 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (3.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (3.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.11%) Degree
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) WCAG
2 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.67%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.11%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (34.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.67%) Databricks
2 3 (1.67%) SAP
3 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
3 1 (0.56%) ION Trading
3 1 (0.56%) mParticle
3 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.56%) OpenLink
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle
3 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media