Azure Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 305 355
Rank change year-on-year +43 +50 -31
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 79 154 281
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.65% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 125 224
10th Percentile £408 £405 £372
25th Percentile £475 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% +13.51%
75th Percentile £663 £699 £625
90th Percentile £688 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% +7.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Azure Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Developer.

Azure Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Developer over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Azure Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Developer.

Azure Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (64.56%) C#
2 51 (64.56%) DevOps
3 50 (63.29%) .NET
4 43 (54.43%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (40.51%) SQL Server
6 31 (39.24%) Microsoft
7 29 (36.71%) CI/CD
8 23 (29.11%) Agile
9 20 (25.32%) Git
10 19 (24.05%) PowerShell
10 19 (24.05%) Scrum
10 19 (24.05%) SQL
10 19 (24.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (21.52%) Finance
12 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
12 16 (20.25%) .NET Framework
12 16 (20.25%) Entra ID
13 15 (18.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (18.99%) XML
13 15 (18.99%) Product Ownership
14 14 (17.72%) .NET Core
14 14 (17.72%) React
15 13 (16.46%) JavaScript
15 13 (16.46%) B2C
15 13 (16.46%) Azure API Management
16 12 (15.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (13.92%) Public Sector
17 11 (13.92%) Microservices
17 11 (13.92%) CSS

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (7.59%) CMS
2 4 (5.06%) Headless CMS
2 4 (5.06%) Kentico
3 1 (1.27%) SAS
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Shopify
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (54.43%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (24.05%) Azure Service Bus
4 16 (20.25%) Entra ID
5 15 (18.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (16.46%) Azure API Management
7 12 (15.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (12.66%) Azure Functions
8 10 (12.66%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (12.66%) Serverless
9 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
11 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (5.06%) PaaS
12 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.80%) NuGet
12 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
13 2 (2.53%) Azure Pipelines
13 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (2.53%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (40.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 2 (2.53%) Redis
6 1 (1.27%) Big Data
6 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) OLTP
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (25.32%) Git
2 6 (7.59%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.06%) SpecFlow
3 4 (5.06%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.27%) git-flow
5 1 (1.27%) Moq
5 1 (1.27%) MSTest
5 1 (1.27%) NUnit
5 1 (1.27%) Postman
5 1 (1.27%) Selenium
5 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (21.52%) Finance
2 11 (13.92%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.39%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Law
5 5 (6.33%) Front Office
5 5 (6.33%) Marketing
6 4 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.80%) Back Office
7 3 (3.80%) Electronics
7 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.53%) Danish Language
9 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (63.29%) .NET
2 16 (20.25%) .NET Framework
3 15 (18.99%) XML
4 14 (17.72%) .NET Core
4 14 (17.72%) React
5 11 (13.92%) CSS
5 11 (13.92%) HTML
6 9 (11.39%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.39%) REST
7 7 (8.86%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.59%) ASP.NET
9 5 (6.33%) YAML
10 4 (5.06%) ARM Templates
10 4 (5.06%) DOM
10 4 (5.06%) GatsbyJS
11 3 (3.80%) Entity Framework
11 3 (3.80%) jQuery
11 3 (3.80%) Swagger
12 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (2.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.59%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Contactless
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.27%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (64.56%) DevOps
2 29 (36.71%) CI/CD
3 23 (29.11%) Agile
4 19 (24.05%) Scrum
5 13 (16.46%) B2C
6 11 (13.92%) Full Stack Development
6 11 (13.92%) Microservices
7 9 (11.39%) SOLID
7 9 (11.39%) TDD
8 8 (10.13%) API Management
8 8 (10.13%) SDLC
9 7 (8.86%) Front End Development
9 7 (8.86%) Test Automation
9 7 (8.86%) Unit Testing
10 6 (7.59%) Asset Management
10 6 (7.59%) OO
10 6 (7.59%) Software Engineering
11 5 (6.33%) API Development
11 5 (6.33%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (6.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (64.56%) C#
2 19 (24.05%) PowerShell
2 19 (24.05%) SQL
3 13 (16.46%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.66%) Bicep
5 8 (10.13%) Python
6 5 (6.33%) Java
6 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.53%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) WCAG
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Terraform
2 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (39.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Databricks
2 3 (3.80%) SAP
3 1 (1.27%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.27%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle
3 1 (1.27%) Salesforce