Azure Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Coventry

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 30 14 37
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 17.96% 14.43% 19.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.96% 37.84% 46.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 30
10th Percentile £290 £206 £363
25th Percentile £316 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +8.11% -13.95%
75th Percentile £488 £534 £550
90th Percentile £538 £575 £604
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 77 37 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 46.11% 38.14% 41.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 24 63
10th Percentile £263 £328 £350
25th Percentile £305 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £522 £500 £550
90th Percentile £561 £552 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.58% +83.41% +8.12%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Coventry

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Coventry over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Coventry

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Datadog
3 6 (20.00%) GitHub
4 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) Collibra
5 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 2 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) VSAN
3 3 (10.00%) BGP
3 3 (10.00%) IPv4
3 3 (10.00%) IPv6
3 3 (10.00%) LAN
3 3 (10.00%) MPLS
3 3 (10.00%) OSPF
3 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (10.00%) VXLAN
3 3 (10.00%) WAN
3 3 (10.00%) WLAN
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (6.67%) DHCP
4 2 (6.67%) DNS
4 2 (6.67%) EIGRP
4 2 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (6.67%) VLAN
4 2 (6.67%) VPN
4 2 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Power BI
2 4 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (13.33%) Delta Lake
2 4 (13.33%) GIS
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) DB2
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Android Studio
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) Gradle
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) Xcode
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) InstallShield
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) MLflow
2 1 (3.33%) MSI
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Retail
5 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Network Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) React Developer
7 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Server Support
7 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Cognos Support
7 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Firewall Support
7 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Server Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Kafka
1 4 (13.33%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) React Native
2 3 (10.00%) Redux
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) Jest
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) HTML
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) IoT
2 4 (13.33%) SCADA
3 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) PKI
5 1 (3.33%) Animation
5 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Android
4 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (23.33%) Analytics
3 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) AI
4 6 (20.00%) ITIL
4 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 5 (16.67%) ETL
5 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.67%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) High Availability
6 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) Bicep
5 2 (6.67%) JSX
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) VB
6 1 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (13.33%) CCIE
1 4 (13.33%) CCNP
1 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (10.00%) CCSP
2 3 (10.00%) CISSP
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) CCIE Security
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) JNCIE
4 1 (3.33%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PhD
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (10.00%) NIST
3 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.67%) QA
5 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (23.33%) vSphere
3 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.33%) Docker
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
1 5 (16.67%) vRealize
1 5 (16.67%) VxRail
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
3 2 (6.67%) SCOM
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Cisco
3 9 (30.00%) VMware
4 8 (26.67%) IBM
4 8 (26.67%) SolarWinds
5 6 (20.00%) AppDynamics
5 6 (20.00%) Commvault
6 5 (16.67%) Databricks
6 5 (16.67%) Dell
6 5 (16.67%) Oracle
7 4 (13.33%) HP
7 4 (13.33%) Informatica
7 4 (13.33%) Palo Alto
7 4 (13.33%) SAP
8 3 (10.00%) F5
8 3 (10.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (10.00%) Meraki
9 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
9 2 (6.67%) Cognos
10 1 (3.33%) Salesforce