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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 587 758
Rank change year-on-year +65 +171 -92
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 53 95 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.091%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.47% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 63 49
10th Percentile £350 £450 £413
25th Percentile £538 £494 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £630
90th Percentile £675 £725 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £607 £538 £588
% change year-on-year +12.93% -8.51% +12.98%
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +62 49 £600 - 19
London +88 35 £600 - 16
Work from Home +77 11 £575 -4.17% 10
UK excluding London +27 11 £607 +12.93% 4
Midlands +30 8 £607 +42.82% 1
West Midlands +20 7 £607 +42.82%
North of England +10 3 £638 +34.21%
North West +19 2 £625 -
Yorkshire +7 1 £650 +36.84%
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 (1.89%) CMS
1 1 (1.89%) Drupal
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (47.17%) Azure Service Bus
3 22 (41.51%) Azure AKS
4 20 (37.74%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (33.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 16 (30.19%) Azure Event Grid
7 11 (20.75%) Serverless
8 10 (18.87%) Azure Functions
9 9 (16.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (16.98%) Azure Storage
10 8 (15.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (13.21%) PaaS
12 6 (11.32%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (9.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
14 4 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (7.55%) IaaS
15 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) VPN
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
3 1 (1.89%) DNS
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) SSH
3 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (24.53%) NoSQL
3 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) SpecFlow
2 4 (7.55%) Cypress.io
2 4 (7.55%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) Selenium
3 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.89%) GitLab
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) NUnit
4 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Finance
3 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Front Office
5 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Software Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Architect
4 7 (13.21%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) .NET Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Azure Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Angular Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Azure Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Azure Software Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Consultant
8 3 (5.66%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Consultant
8 3 (5.66%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Informatica Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (50.94%) .NET
2 17 (32.08%) Kafka
3 12 (22.64%) .NET Core
3 12 (22.64%) AngularJS
4 7 (13.21%) RESTful
5 4 (7.55%) ARM Templates
6 3 (5.66%) CSS
6 3 (5.66%) CSS3
6 3 (5.66%) HTML
6 3 (5.66%) HTML5
6 3 (5.66%) Node.js
6 3 (5.66%) React
6 3 (5.66%) Spring
6 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Derivative
1 6 (11.32%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Unix
2 4 (7.55%) Windows
3 3 (5.66%) VMS
4 2 (3.77%) Linux
5 1 (1.89%) CentOS
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (62.26%) DevOps
2 24 (45.28%) Microservices
3 23 (43.40%) Agile
4 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
6 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (26.42%) Software Engineering
7 13 (24.53%) TDD
8 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven
8 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
9 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
10 7 (13.21%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (13.21%) Migration
11 6 (11.32%) Clean Code
11 6 (11.32%) Cloud Security
11 6 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (11.32%) Electronic Trading
11 6 (11.32%) Scrum
11 6 (11.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) SQL
2 28 (52.83%) C#
3 14 (26.42%) Bicep
3 14 (26.42%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.32%) Java
5 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.55%) Python
5 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.77%) Bash
7 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 7 (13.21%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (13.21%) Docker
3 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (47.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.98%) Terraform
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) yum
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Informatica
3 3 (5.66%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco
4 1 (1.89%) Confluent
4 1 (1.89%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.89%) Skytap
4 1 (1.89%) Virgin Media