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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 420 447
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 -54
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 178 286 482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.54% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 237 377
10th Percentile £415 £450 £397
25th Percentile £495 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £744 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% +26.32% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 June 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 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
England +12 157 £580 -0.85% 42
London +41 92 £550 -8.33% 13
Work from Home +42 82 £528 -8.26% 33
UK excluding London -8 58 £580 -3.33% 29
South East +1 34 £625 +4.17% 11
North of England +1 9 £475 -5.00% 8
Midlands +23 8 £580 -3.33% 8
West Midlands +14 8 £580 -3.33% 7
North West +7 5 £475 -9.52% 3
South West +2 5 £450 -18.18% 2
Yorkshire -5 3 £350 -26.32% 4
Scotland +37 1 £375 -31.82%
North East +12 1 - - 1
East of England +1 1 £600 +29.73%

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 job ads featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 178 (100.00%) Azure
2 102 (57.30%) DevOps
3 87 (48.88%) C#
3 87 (48.88%) .NET
4 76 (42.70%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (41.57%) Agile
6 67 (37.64%) CI/CD
7 61 (34.27%) Microsoft
8 55 (30.90%) SQL Server
9 50 (28.09%) Full Stack Development
10 45 (25.28%) Git
11 42 (23.60%) React
11 42 (23.60%) Active Directory
12 41 (23.03%) Entra ID
13 40 (22.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 39 (21.91%) Serverless
15 38 (21.35%) Azure Functions
16 37 (20.79%) Product Ownership
16 37 (20.79%) Finance
16 37 (20.79%) PowerShell
17 36 (20.22%) Microservices
18 35 (19.66%) SQL
18 35 (19.66%) Python
18 35 (19.66%) Azure Service Bus
19 33 (18.54%) Scrum
20 31 (17.42%) XML
20 31 (17.42%) Azure Monitor
20 31 (17.42%) Azure Data Factory
21 29 (16.29%) .NET Framework
22 26 (14.61%) B2C

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 (4.49%) CMS
2 5 (2.81%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.81%) Kentico
3 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.12%) Endur
2 2 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (42.70%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (23.03%) Entra ID
4 40 (22.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 39 (21.91%) Serverless
6 38 (21.35%) Azure Functions
7 35 (19.66%) Azure Service Bus
8 31 (17.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (17.42%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (12.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 20 (11.24%) Azure API Management
11 15 (8.43%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.93%) Azure AKS
14 6 (3.37%) Azure App Service
14 6 (3.37%) PaaS
15 5 (2.81%) Azure Event Grid
16 4 (2.25%) Azure Pipelines
16 4 (2.25%) Azure Storage
16 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.90%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.61%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.62%) Power BI
5 6 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.37%) Redis
6 5 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.12%) Big Data
8 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.12%) GIS
8 2 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.12%) OLTP
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (25.28%) Git
2 12 (6.74%) Selenium
3 9 (5.06%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.81%) SpecFlow
4 5 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.25%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.69%) JUnit
6 3 (1.69%) Maven
7 2 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.56%) git-flow
8 1 (0.56%) Moq
8 1 (0.56%) MSTest
8 1 (0.56%) NUnit
8 1 (0.56%) Pylint
8 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (20.79%) Finance
2 23 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.80%) Social Skills
4 15 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.49%) Marketing
6 6 (3.37%) Law
7 5 (2.81%) Banking
7 5 (2.81%) Front Office
8 4 (2.25%) Back Office
8 4 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.69%) Electronics
9 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.69%) Music Industry
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Danish Language
10 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) International Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (48.88%) .NET
2 42 (23.60%) React
3 31 (17.42%) XML
4 29 (16.29%) .NET Framework
5 24 (13.48%) .NET Core
6 23 (12.92%) HTML
7 20 (11.24%) AngularJS
7 20 (11.24%) CSS
8 17 (9.55%) REST
9 10 (5.62%) ASP.NET
10 9 (5.06%) ARM Templates
10 9 (5.06%) GraphQL
11 8 (4.49%) Node.js
12 7 (3.93%) Kafka
12 7 (3.93%) YAML
13 5 (2.81%) DOM
13 5 (2.81%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.81%) JSON
13 5 (2.81%) OpenID
13 5 (2.81%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.79%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.12%) Contactless
4 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.12%) Tandem
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 3 (1.69%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (57.30%) DevOps
2 74 (41.57%) Agile
3 67 (37.64%) CI/CD
4 50 (28.09%) Full Stack Development
5 36 (20.22%) Microservices
6 33 (18.54%) Scrum
7 26 (14.61%) B2C
8 24 (13.48%) SDLC
9 22 (12.36%) Test Automation
9 22 (12.36%) Unit Testing
10 20 (11.24%) API Management
11 18 (10.11%) Product Backlog
12 17 (9.55%) TDD
13 16 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (8.43%) Change Management
15 13 (7.30%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (7.30%) Clean Code
16 12 (6.74%) OO
16 12 (6.74%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 87 (48.88%) C#
2 37 (20.79%) PowerShell
3 35 (19.66%) Python
3 35 (19.66%) SQL
4 23 (12.92%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.36%) Java
6 17 (9.55%) Bicep
7 15 (8.43%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.69%) C
9 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (2.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.69%) Degree
3 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.25%) QA
1 4 (2.25%) WCAG
2 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (23.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.18%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.81%) Databricks
3 3 (1.69%) SAP
4 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.56%) Informatica
4 1 (0.56%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.56%) mParticle
4 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.56%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media