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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,981 4,281 6,927
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.98% 17.02% 17.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.49% 43.42% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 3,105 5,165
10th Percentile £374 £413 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £798 £775
England median daily rate £545 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 18
10th Percentile £18.21 £22.69 £31.47
25th Percentile £22.08 £32.25 £36.63
Median hourly rate £23.80 £57.75 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -58.79% +2.31% -0.97%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.63 £85.00
90th Percentile - £72.50 £92.13
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -13.64%

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 6,855 9,860 15,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.05% 39.20% 40.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,042 7,257 11,979
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £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 66 77 64
10th Percentile £17.01 £19.57 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +28.05% +17.14%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £60.00 £88.98 £81.38
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
Central London +1 471 £550 -7.56% 142
West London +12 41 £475 -32.14% 34
East London +2 38 £538 +5.91% 19
South London +2 17 £430 -21.10% 15
North London 0 2 £438 +59.09% 5
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
1 161 (5.40%) SharePoint
2 119 (3.99%) Apache
3 104 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 91 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
5 68 (2.28%) Apache Spark
6 62 (2.08%) Confluence
7 28 (0.94%) IIS
8 25 (0.84%) CMS
9 12 (0.40%) nginx
10 11 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 8 (0.27%) Site Server
12 7 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
12 7 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
14 5 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 54 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.067%) Trello
8 1 (0.034%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.034%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 85 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
3 14 (0.47%) Endur
4 9 (0.30%) Shopify
5 8 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
7 5 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.13%) 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 (0.067%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.067%) Maximo
11 1 (0.034%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.034%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 773 (25.93%) AWS
2 677 (22.71%) Azure DevOps
3 412 (13.82%) GCP
4 326 (10.94%) Entra ID
4 326 (10.94%) Power Platform
5 322 (10.80%) Microsoft 365
6 174 (5.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 168 (5.64%) Dynamics 365
8 162 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 158 (5.30%) Serverless
10 132 (4.43%) GitHub
11 130 (4.36%) PaaS
12 123 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 112 (3.76%) IaaS
14 104 (3.49%) PowerApps
15 99 (3.32%) Azure Functions
15 99 (3.32%) Power Automate
16 98 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
17 94 (3.15%) SaaS
18 91 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 161 (5.40%) Firewall
2 96 (3.22%) DNS
3 50 (1.68%) VPN
4 46 (1.54%) WAN
5 42 (1.41%) LAN
6 40 (1.34%) DHCP
7 38 (1.27%) Network Security
8 30 (1.01%) MPLS
9 28 (0.94%) TCP/IP
10 26 (0.87%) Internet
11 24 (0.81%) SD-WAN
11 24 (0.81%) Wireless
12 22 (0.74%) OSPF
13 21 (0.70%) BGP
13 21 (0.70%) SAN
14 19 (0.64%) HTTP
15 17 (0.57%) IPsec
15 17 (0.57%) VLAN
16 16 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (0.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 462 (15.50%) SQL Server
2 260 (8.72%) Power BI
3 194 (6.51%) Data Lake
4 179 (6.00%) NoSQL
5 160 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
6 155 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
7 129 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 112 (3.76%) Big Data
9 68 (2.28%) Apache Ignite
10 66 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.71%) Tableau
12 49 (1.64%) MongoDB
13 48 (1.61%) MySQL
13 48 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 31 (1.04%) Redis
15 26 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (0.84%) RDBMS
17 21 (0.70%) Delta Lake
18 20 (0.67%) Metadata
19 17 (0.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 224 (7.51%) Git
2 103 (3.46%) JIRA
3 98 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 70 (2.35%) Cypress.io
5 66 (2.21%) GitLab
6 54 (1.81%) Visual Studio
7 51 (1.71%) SpecFlow
8 47 (1.58%) Selenium
9 24 (0.81%) Postman
10 23 (0.77%) JMeter
10 23 (0.77%) Maven
10 23 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 20 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.54%) Visual Studio Team System
13 15 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 14 (0.47%) WebDriver
15 12 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
18 8 (0.27%) Gradle
General
1 824 (27.64%) Finance
2 641 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 295 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 287 (9.63%) Banking
5 254 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 200 (6.71%) Front Office
7 77 (2.58%) Retail
8 75 (2.52%) Marketing
9 66 (2.21%) Back Office
10 59 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 40 (1.34%) Legal
13 39 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 37 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 35 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 32 (1.07%) Manufacturing
18 25 (0.84%) Law
19 21 (0.70%) General Ledger
20 20 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 707 (23.72%) Developer
2 477 (16.00%) Architect
3 372 (12.48%) Senior
4 294 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
5 214 (7.18%) Data Engineer
6 184 (6.17%) Lead
6 184 (6.17%) Software Engineer
7 179 (6.00%) Analyst
8 176 (5.90%) Senior Developer
9 170 (5.70%) Consultant
10 139 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
11 136 (4.56%) Python Developer
12 132 (4.43%) .NET Developer
13 129 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 112 (3.76%) Full Stack Developer
15 111 (3.72%) C# Developer
16 99 (3.32%) Python Engineer
17 97 (3.25%) Data Architect
17 97 (3.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 92 (3.09%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 520 (17.44%) .NET
2 241 (8.08%) React
3 171 (5.74%) .NET Core
4 163 (5.47%) XML
5 161 (5.40%) HTML
6 134 (4.50%) .NET Framework
7 123 (4.13%) REST
8 118 (3.96%) Kafka
9 113 (3.79%) AngularJS
10 112 (3.76%) CSS
11 105 (3.52%) PySpark
12 101 (3.39%) ASP.NET
13 97 (3.25%) Redux
14 83 (2.78%) gRPC
15 77 (2.58%) Protocol Buffers
16 73 (2.45%) Web Services
17 71 (2.38%) JSON
17 71 (2.38%) Material-UI
18 70 (2.35%) RESTful
19 66 (2.21%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 154 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 118 (3.96%) Hedge funds
3 115 (3.86%) Fixed Income
4 80 (2.68%) Equities
5 77 (2.58%) Cloud Native
5 77 (2.58%) Derivative
6 69 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 65 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 59 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 58 (1.95%) Public Cloud
10 51 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 46 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 35 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 34 (1.14%) PKI
15 28 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (0.94%) Mobile App
15 28 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 336 (11.27%) Windows
2 172 (5.77%) Linux
3 114 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.91%) Windows 10
5 55 (1.85%) Unix
6 28 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (0.64%) Android
9 16 (0.54%) VMS
10 14 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.34%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.30%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.27%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.23%) Solaris
15 7 (0.23%) Ubuntu
16 6 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
17 5 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
18 4 (0.13%) CentOS
19 2 (0.067%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (35.36%) DevOps
2 938 (31.47%) Agile
3 513 (17.21%) CI/CD
4 382 (12.81%) Software Engineering
5 371 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
6 352 (11.81%) Migration
7 295 (9.90%) Scrum
8 286 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
9 283 (9.49%) Analytics
10 248 (8.32%) Data Modelling
11 200 (6.71%) Computer Science
12 196 (6.57%) Full Stack Development
13 189 (6.34%) ETL
14 186 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 183 (6.14%) TDD
16 182 (6.11%) Microservices
17 166 (5.57%) Asset Management
18 160 (5.37%) Test Automation
19 153 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence
20 151 (5.07%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 690 (23.15%) SQL
2 613 (20.56%) Python
3 551 (18.48%) C#
4 420 (14.09%) PowerShell
5 252 (8.45%) JavaScript
6 209 (7.01%) Java
7 200 (6.71%) TypeScript
8 119 (3.99%) Bicep
9 67 (2.25%) Bash
10 65 (2.18%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.64%) Scala
12 37 (1.24%) Go
13 36 (1.21%) C++
14 30 (1.01%) R
15 26 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.77%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.60%) Ruby
18 16 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.54%) Rust
19 15 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 304 (10.20%) Degree
2 282 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 241 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 124 (4.16%) Azure Certification
5 118 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 42 (1.41%) CISSP
9 39 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 37 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 30 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (0.91%) CISM
13 20 (0.67%) CCNP
14 17 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.47%) CCNA
16 13 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.40%) CISA
18 9 (0.30%) PMP
19 8 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (3.59%) QA
2 102 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 54 (1.81%) GDPR
4 52 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 45 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.41%) NIST
7 39 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.04%) SLA
9 23 (0.77%) WCAG
10 12 (0.40%) PMO
11 10 (0.34%) NCSC
12 8 (0.27%) GRC
12 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.23%) COBIT
13 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.10%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 435 (14.59%) Active Directory
2 229 (7.68%) Docker
3 76 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.37%) vSphere
8 10 (0.34%) Firmware
9 7 (0.23%) ACF2
9 7 (0.23%) IAG
9 7 (0.23%) RACF
9 7 (0.23%) XenApp
10 6 (0.20%) KVM
10 6 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.17%) NFS
11 5 (0.17%) vCloud
12 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.13%) Shibboleth
12 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 314 (10.53%) Terraform
2 285 (9.56%) Kubernetes
3 130 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 105 (3.52%) Ansible
5 69 (2.31%) SCCM
6 48 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 36 (1.21%) Puppet
8 26 (0.87%) Grafana
9 21 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (0.64%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.47%) PingFederate
13 13 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.37%) Argo
14 11 (0.37%) SCOM
15 9 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.27%) Netcool
16 8 (0.27%) Podman
16 8 (0.27%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 998 (33.48%) Microsoft
2 222 (7.45%) Databricks
3 178 (5.97%) Oracle
4 160 (5.37%) Google
5 116 (3.89%) VMware
6 98 (3.29%) SAP
7 79 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 64 (2.15%) Cisco
9 52 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 47 (1.58%) Splunk
11 44 (1.48%) Salesforce
12 43 (1.44%) Citrix
13 31 (1.04%) Informatica
14 29 (0.97%) MuleSoft
15 28 (0.94%) F5
16 27 (0.91%) Palo Alto
17 26 (0.87%) NetApp
18 24 (0.81%) Okta
19 22 (0.74%) Adobe
19 22 (0.74%) BeyondTrust