Azure Developer Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Developer
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in the North of England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 181 177
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +55
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 5 9 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.19% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 28
10th Percentile £370 £383 £407
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £563 £488 £570
90th Percentile - £510 £626
England median daily rate £550 £575 £577
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.39% +9.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,274 4,511 5,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 92.78% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,165 2,741 3,620
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 443 169
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -9.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.48
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in the North of England

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in the North of England

Azure Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Developer in the North of England

Azure Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
North West +1 3 £550 +15.79% 9
Yorkshire +5 2 £463 - 2
Azure Developer
England

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, 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 across the North of England region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Virgin Media
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Express.js
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) VLE
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile App

Azure Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) Express.js
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Virgin Media
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