Azure Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Microsoft Azure
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 37
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Azure 5 13 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.87% 7.30% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 56.52% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £231 £463
25th Percentile £240 £325 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% -0.57% +24.24%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £563
90th Percentile - - £570
North West median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £71.25 £24.25
% change year-on-year -59.30% +193.81% -44.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15 23 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 5.60% 12.92% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 7
10th Percentile £230 £176 £462
25th Percentile £238 £263 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -20.45% +29.41%
75th Percentile £400 £538 £606
90th Percentile £524 - £613
North West median daily rate £498 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +9.64% -4.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £40.89 £12.00
25th Percentile - £45.53 £12.25
Median hourly rate - £56.55 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +334.96% -
75th Percentile - £68.03 -
90th Percentile - £72.96 -
North West median hourly rate £62.25 £34.67 £16.06
% change year-on-year +79.55% +115.88% -25.92%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cumbria over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cumbria

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Barrow-in-Furness -5 3 £240 - 1
Workington - 2 £525 -
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM