Azure Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 29 28 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.12% 6.39% 6.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.88% 28.00% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile £255 £284 £350
25th Percentile £364 £300 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £659 £525 £528
90th Percentile £718 £583 £542
East of England median daily rate £500 £350 £473
% change year-on-year +42.86% -25.93% -12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £100.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +233.33% -57.14% +41.41%

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 104 100 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.13% 22.83% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 57
10th Percentile £250 £286 £180
25th Percentile £409 £340 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £563 £518
90th Percentile £700 £602 £591
East of England median daily rate £505 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +20.24% -11.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year - +4.15% +4.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £31.25 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +91.72% -18.50% +29.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cambridgeshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Azure

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 26 September 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 +1 27 £494 +16.18% 57
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 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 11 (37.93%) GCP
3 7 (24.14%) Serverless
4 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (17.24%) Azure Functions
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
7 3 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (6.90%) PaaS
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
1 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.90%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Selenium
2 3 (10.34%) Artifactory
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) JMeter
2 3 (10.34%) Postman
3 2 (6.90%) Hudson
3 2 (6.90%) webpack
4 1 (3.45%) Appium
4 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.45%) Gatling
4 1 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) JUnit
4 1 (3.45%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Legal
2 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Data Scientist
4 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) IFS Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) IFS Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Integration Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) RESTful
3 4 (13.79%) Web Services
4 3 (10.34%) PyTorch
4 3 (10.34%) Semantic Kernel
4 3 (10.34%) TensorFlow
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.90%) Celery
5 2 (6.90%) D3.js
5 2 (6.90%) Django
5 2 (6.90%) Entity Framework
5 2 (6.90%) React
5 2 (6.90%) Sass
5 2 (6.90%) Vue
5 2 (6.90%) XML
6 1 (3.45%) Middleware
6 1 (3.45%) Pandas
6 1 (3.45%) Playwright
6 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
1 6 (20.69%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
2 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
4 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Agile
1 9 (31.03%) DevOps
1 9 (31.03%) Migration
1 9 (31.03%) Task Automation
1 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
2 8 (27.59%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (24.14%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (20.69%) Case Management
4 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
4 6 (20.69%) Cyber Intelligence
4 6 (20.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (20.69%) Data Enrichment
4 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
4 6 (20.69%) Security Operations
4 6 (20.69%) SIEM
4 6 (20.69%) SOAR
4 6 (20.69%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 6 (20.69%) Threat Intelligence
4 6 (20.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Perl
5 2 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.34%) MCP
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) EU AI Act
1 5 (17.24%) NIST
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) IFRS
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Ansible
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Google
3 4 (13.79%) Palo Alto
3 4 (13.79%) Splunk
4 3 (10.34%) Foundry
4 3 (10.34%) IBM
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.90%) IFS
5 2 (6.90%) Sybase
6 1 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) VMware