Azure Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 45 13
Rank change year-on-year +20 -32 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 20 10 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.25% 2.02% 9.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.99% 11.49% 37.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 43
10th Percentile £356 £262 £308
25th Percentile £438 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £650 £563 £500
90th Percentile £676 - £521
East of England median daily rate £580 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +26.78% -3.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +205.34% -6.43% +27.27%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 87 87 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 31.52% 17.58% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 93
10th Percentile £338 £210 £206
25th Percentile £425 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -8.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £525
90th Percentile £650 £563 £574
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 51 26
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £17.40 £21.37 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.46 £21.46 £18.50
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Cambridgeshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Cambridgeshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cambridgeshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Cambridgeshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridge +17 10 £525 -4.55% 129
Peterborough +15 3 £438 - 80
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) QlikView
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Hudson
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Head of IT
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Power Apps Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Power Apps Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (20.00%) ERP
4 4 (20.00%) ETL
4 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) API Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) Workload Management
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Google
3 3 (15.00%) IBM
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) IFS
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Sybase
5 1 (5.00%) VMware