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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 115 131
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +49
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 1 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.63% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 1.55% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - £411 -
25th Percentile £720 £448 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £534 £565
Median % change year-on-year +38.64% -5.53% -13.08%
75th Percentile £760 £614 -
90th Percentile - £689 -
Central London median daily rate £740 £575 £565
% change year-on-year +28.70% +1.77% -13.08%

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 706 837 1,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.32% 40.30% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 556 874
10th Percentile £336 £398 £325
25th Percentile £433 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 5
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.15
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +20.00% -35.25%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £38.00
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £46.70
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +55.56% -33.82%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage 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 and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Table
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft