Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Storage
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 115 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 2 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 1.23% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £434 -
25th Percentile £325 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £534 £565
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% -5.53% -1.74%
75th Percentile £375 £614 -
90th Percentile - £641 -
Central London median daily rate £350 £534 £565
% change year-on-year -34.43% -5.53% -1.74%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Azure Storage 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 752 816 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.71% 39.17% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 516 750
10th Percentile £328 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £32.25 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £34.19 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.43% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £46.11 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £52.13 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Storage

Azure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks