Azure Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Microsoft Azure
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 18.75% 23.53% 28.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 100.00% 80.00% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £99 - -
25th Percentile £184 - £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £325 £281
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £488 - £391
90th Percentile £578 - £396
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £413 £470
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.23% -16.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £41.45 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £100.00 £30.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +233.33% -51.61% +77.14%

All Cloud Skills
Bedford

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 18.75% 29.41% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £99 £209 -
25th Percentile £184 £253 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £325 £200
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +62.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £488 - £388
90th Percentile £578 - £395
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £41.45 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £100.00 £55.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -11.29% +195.24%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Azure job vacancy trend in Bedford

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Bedford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Bedford over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Bedford

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Service Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) B2C
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) Foundry
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) OpenAI