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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,908 4,402 7,000
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.64% 16.92% 17.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.04% 43.42% 43.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,142 3,203 5,187
10th Percentile £375 £413 £417
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 £798 £775
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.56% +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 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -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 6,757 10,139 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.66% 38.97% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 7,439 12,131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 80 78
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.89 £19.76
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £23.49
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.47 £78.98
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 463 £543 -5.65% 182
West London +6 39 £475 -32.14% 44
East London +2 38 £539 +4.61% 286
South London +5 21 £475 -13.64% 30
North London +1 2 £438 +191.67% 8
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
1 157 (5.40%) SharePoint
2 113 (3.89%) Apache
3 108 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 86 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
5 65 (2.24%) Apache Spark
6 62 (2.13%) Confluence
7 26 (0.89%) IIS
8 24 (0.83%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) nginx
10 10 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
10 10 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.31%) Site Server
12 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.24%) JBoss
13 6 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 6 (0.21%) Skype for Business
14 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
14 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 55 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 28 (0.96%) 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 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.034%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.034%) InDesign
9 1 (0.034%) InVision
9 1 (0.034%) Marvel
9 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 77 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.58%) Endur
4 9 (0.31%) Shopify
5 8 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.24%) 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 (0.034%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.034%) ION MarketView
11 1 (0.034%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 779 (26.79%) AWS
2 651 (22.39%) Azure DevOps
3 404 (13.89%) GCP
4 323 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 317 (10.90%) Power Platform
6 309 (10.63%) Entra ID
7 166 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 165 (5.67%) Serverless
9 163 (5.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 152 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
11 132 (4.54%) GitHub
12 125 (4.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 115 (3.95%) PaaS
14 104 (3.58%) IaaS
15 102 (3.51%) PowerApps
16 101 (3.47%) Azure Functions
16 101 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 98 (3.37%) Power Automate
18 87 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
18 87 (2.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (5.78%) Firewall
2 100 (3.44%) DNS
3 55 (1.89%) VPN
4 50 (1.72%) WAN
5 46 (1.58%) LAN
6 44 (1.51%) DHCP
7 41 (1.41%) Network Security
8 33 (1.13%) MPLS
9 28 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.93%) TCP/IP
11 26 (0.89%) Internet
11 26 (0.89%) Wireless
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 17 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
17 16 (0.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (14.99%) SQL Server
2 249 (8.56%) Power BI
3 183 (6.29%) Data Lake
4 163 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
5 155 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
6 153 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 116 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 104 (3.58%) Big Data
9 68 (2.34%) Apache Ignite
10 61 (2.10%) Relational Database
11 50 (1.72%) MySQL
12 47 (1.62%) MongoDB
13 44 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (1.31%) Tableau
15 27 (0.93%) Redis
16 25 (0.86%) RDBMS
17 23 (0.79%) Delta Lake
18 21 (0.72%) Metadata
18 21 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 17 (0.58%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 214 (7.36%) Git
2 103 (3.54%) JIRA
3 89 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 70 (2.41%) Cypress.io
5 66 (2.27%) GitLab
6 50 (1.72%) SpecFlow
7 47 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 42 (1.44%) Selenium
9 27 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 22 (0.76%) Maven
11 21 (0.72%) Postman
12 18 (0.62%) JMeter
12 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 14 (0.48%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
16 10 (0.34%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
17 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
18 8 (0.28%) Eclipse
General
1 807 (27.75%) Finance
2 628 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 296 (10.18%) Public Sector
4 274 (9.42%) Banking
5 239 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 200 (6.88%) Front Office
7 83 (2.85%) Marketing
8 74 (2.54%) Retail
9 65 (2.24%) Back Office
9 65 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 38 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 38 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 31 (1.07%) Legal
16 29 (1.00%) Law
17 22 (0.76%) Electronics
18 21 (0.72%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 673 (23.14%) Developer
2 469 (16.13%) Architect
3 359 (12.35%) Senior
4 282 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
5 211 (7.26%) Data Engineer
6 186 (6.40%) Analyst
7 183 (6.29%) Lead
8 182 (6.26%) Software Engineer
9 162 (5.57%) Consultant
10 161 (5.54%) Senior Developer
11 135 (4.64%) Python Developer
12 133 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
13 122 (4.20%) .NET Developer
14 117 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
15 111 (3.82%) Full Stack Developer
16 107 (3.68%) C# Developer
17 99 (3.40%) Data Architect
18 98 (3.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 96 (3.30%) Python Engineer
20 95 (3.27%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (16.99%) .NET
2 235 (8.08%) React
3 170 (5.85%) .NET Core
4 161 (5.54%) XML
5 145 (4.99%) HTML
6 125 (4.30%) .NET Framework
7 119 (4.09%) REST
8 107 (3.68%) CSS
9 106 (3.65%) AngularJS
10 102 (3.51%) PySpark
11 101 (3.47%) Kafka
12 99 (3.40%) Redux
13 90 (3.09%) ASP.NET
14 81 (2.79%) gRPC
15 77 (2.65%) Protocol Buffers
16 74 (2.54%) JSON
17 72 (2.48%) Web Services
18 71 (2.44%) Material-UI
19 69 (2.37%) Node.js
20 60 (2.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 155 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 121 (4.16%) Hedge funds
3 120 (4.13%) Fixed Income
4 86 (2.96%) Equities
5 83 (2.85%) Derivative
6 80 (2.75%) Cloud Native
7 72 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 62 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 52 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 50 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 48 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 38 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
15 35 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
16 34 (1.17%) PKI
17 26 (0.89%) Mobile App
18 25 (0.86%) Algorithms
18 25 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
18 25 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 341 (11.73%) Windows
2 178 (6.12%) Linux
3 118 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.72%) Unix
6 31 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (0.58%) Android
9 15 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.41%) VMS
11 11 (0.38%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.31%) Apple iOS
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 (35.56%) DevOps
2 923 (31.74%) Agile
3 483 (16.61%) CI/CD
4 375 (12.90%) Software Engineering
5 359 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
6 339 (11.66%) Migration
7 282 (9.70%) Scrum
8 278 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
9 264 (9.08%) Analytics
10 231 (7.94%) Data Modelling
11 197 (6.77%) Full Stack Development
12 186 (6.40%) ETL
13 181 (6.22%) Computer Science
13 181 (6.22%) TDD
14 171 (5.88%) Microservices
15 168 (5.78%) Asset Management
16 162 (5.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 159 (5.47%) Test Automation
18 147 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence
19 144 (4.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 668 (22.97%) SQL
2 618 (21.25%) Python
3 527 (18.12%) C#
4 414 (14.24%) PowerShell
5 252 (8.67%) JavaScript
6 201 (6.91%) Java
6 201 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 120 (4.13%) Bicep
8 66 (2.27%) Bash
9 52 (1.79%) T-SQL
10 49 (1.69%) Scala
11 39 (1.34%) C++
12 38 (1.31%) Go
13 30 (1.03%) R
14 20 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.62%) Ruby
16 17 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.52%) PHP
17 15 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 277 (9.53%) Degree
2 271 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 233 (8.01%) SC Cleared
4 112 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 112 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (1.55%) CISSP
7 40 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 35 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.03%) CISM
11 29 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (0.69%) CCNP
13 18 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.45%) CCNA
15 13 (0.45%) CISA
16 11 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (3.92%) QA
2 92 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 52 (1.79%) GDPR
4 49 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 46 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.58%) NIST
6 32 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.07%) SLA
8 22 (0.76%) WCAG
9 12 (0.41%) PMO
10 11 (0.38%) NCSC
11 10 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.28%) GRC
12 8 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.24%) COBIT
13 7 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.10%) ISO 31000
16 3 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 427 (14.68%) Active Directory
2 216 (7.43%) Docker
3 69 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.48%) vSphere
8 10 (0.34%) 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
1 284 (9.77%) Terraform
2 261 (8.98%) Kubernetes
3 124 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 96 (3.30%) Ansible
5 66 (2.27%) SCCM
6 47 (1.62%) 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 (0.58%) Progress Chef
12 16 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.48%) PingFederate
14 13 (0.45%) FortiGate
15 11 (0.38%) Argo
16 10 (0.34%) SCOM
17 9 (0.31%) Kibana
17 9 (0.31%) Netcool
18 8 (0.28%) Podman
19 7 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 964 (33.15%) Microsoft
2 228 (7.84%) Databricks
3 189 (6.50%) Oracle
4 151 (5.19%) Google
5 115 (3.95%) VMware
6 89 (3.06%) SAP
7 74 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 64 (2.20%) Cisco
9 55 (1.89%) Splunk
10 50 (1.72%) CyberArk
11 46 (1.58%) Citrix
12 42 (1.44%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 29 (1.00%) F5
14 29 (1.00%) Informatica
15 28 (0.96%) Okta
15 28 (0.96%) Palo Alto
16 24 (0.83%) Adobe
17 23 (0.79%) NetApp
18 22 (0.76%) Red Hat