Azure Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 136 103 99
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 9.99% 12.29% 12.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.16% 41.20% 48.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 73 62
10th Percentile £276 £363 £307
25th Percentile £404 £402 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £604 £500 £584
90th Percentile £675 £575 £619
England median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 2
10th Percentile £17.97 - £20.84
25th Percentile £19.95 - £24.87
Median hourly rate £25.75 £16.35 £34.16
Median % change year-on-year +57.49% -52.14% -51.20%
75th Percentile - - £45.87
90th Percentile - - £51.35
England median hourly rate £52.50 £33.39 £35.00
% change year-on-year +57.26% -4.61% -24.21%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 366 250 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.87% 29.83% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 188 115
10th Percentile £225 £336 £194
25th Percentile £358 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -1.19%
75th Percentile £563 £501 £544
90th Percentile £666 £625 £619
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 7 4
10th Percentile £13.71 £17.64 £14.91
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% -26.24% +87.10%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £43.51
90th Percentile - - £50.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Azure job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Derbyshire -2 46 £500 +11.11% 14
Lincolnshire +2 26 £450 -10.89% 28
Northamptonshire +11 25 £500 +13.82% 29
Leicestershire -3 23 £575 +24.32% 42
Nottinghamshire -8 15 £475 -5.00% 74
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.47%) Apache Pig
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Maximo
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.21%) Entra ID
2 30 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 24 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (15.44%) AWS
5 19 (13.97%) Power Platform
6 13 (9.56%) IaaS
6 13 (9.56%) PaaS
6 13 (9.56%) SaaS
7 12 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (6.62%) GCP
9 7 (5.15%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.68%) GitHub
11 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.68%) Serverless
12 4 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.97%) Firewall
2 17 (12.50%) VPN
3 12 (8.82%) DNS
4 10 (7.35%) DHCP
5 7 (5.15%) Network Security
6 5 (3.68%) SAN
7 4 (2.94%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.94%) VLAN
8 3 (2.21%) LAN
8 3 (2.21%) SSL
8 3 (2.21%) WAN
9 2 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.74%) BGP
10 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.74%) IPsec
10 1 (0.74%) OSPF
10 1 (0.74%) PBX
10 1 (0.74%) SMS
10 1 (0.74%) VoIP
10 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) Data Lake
2 16 (11.76%) Power BI
3 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.09%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.68%) Big Data
8 3 (2.21%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.47%) HBase
9 2 (1.47%) MySQL
9 2 (1.47%) Redis
9 2 (1.47%) Sqoop
10 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.74%) Db2
10 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Git
2 4 (2.94%) JIRA
3 3 (2.21%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.21%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.74%) Ant
4 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.74%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) Maven
4 1 (0.74%) MSI
4 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.88%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.41%) Finance
8 5 (3.68%) Police
9 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Law
10 2 (1.47%) Legal
10 2 (1.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.74%) Automotive
11 1 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (25.00%) Developer
2 24 (17.65%) Senior
3 22 (16.18%) Architect
4 21 (15.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.35%) .NET Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Senior SQL Developer
8 10 (7.35%) SQL Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Lead
10 8 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.15%) Analyst
11 7 (5.15%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Senior Architect
12 6 (4.41%) Data Architect
12 6 (4.41%) Deployment Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.41%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.56%) .NET
1 13 (9.56%) Terraform
2 5 (3.68%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.68%) REST
3 4 (2.94%) Kafka
3 4 (2.94%) YAML
4 3 (2.21%) Middleware
4 3 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.47%) Celery
5 2 (1.47%) Django
5 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.47%) Node.js
5 2 (1.47%) OAuth
5 2 (1.47%) Playwright
5 2 (1.47%) pytest
5 2 (1.47%) React
6 1 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.74%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) CMDB
2 7 (5.15%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.21%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.47%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.74%) Handset
7 1 (0.74%) IVR
7 1 (0.74%) Life Science
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.74%) Windows
2 19 (13.97%) Windows 10
3 12 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.62%) Linux
5 5 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.94%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.21%) VMS
8 1 (0.74%) Android
8 1 (0.74%) CentOS
8 1 (0.74%) Unix
8 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.47%) Migration
2 35 (25.74%) DevOps
3 24 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (16.91%) CI/CD
5 21 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 16 (11.76%) Agile
8 16 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (9.56%) Analytics
10 13 (9.56%) Architecture Governance
10 13 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (8.82%) ETL
11 12 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (8.09%) Cloud Security
12 11 (8.09%) Data Engineering
13 10 (7.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.21%) SQL
2 13 (9.56%) Python
3 12 (8.82%) C#
4 11 (8.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) Bicep
6 4 (2.94%) Java
7 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.47%) R
7 2 (1.47%) Scala
8 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.74%) X++
Qualifications
1 45 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 33 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.76%) Degree
4 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.68%) CISM
5 5 (3.68%) CISSP
6 4 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.47%) CRISC
8 2 (1.47%) MCSA
8 2 (1.47%) MCSE
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.74%) CCNP
9 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) GDPR
2 5 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.21%) NIST
5 2 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) GRC
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.74%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) SEPA
6 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (27.94%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.03%) Docker
3 7 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.47%) Apache Flume
5 2 (1.47%) HDFS
6 1 (0.74%) Firmware
6 1 (0.74%) NFS
6 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (16.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (13.97%) SCCM
3 16 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.21%) Ansible
4 3 (2.21%) VxRail
5 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (49.26%) Microsoft
2 32 (23.53%) Databricks
3 10 (7.35%) VMware
4 9 (6.62%) Oracle
5 4 (2.94%) Aruba
6 2 (1.47%) NetApp
6 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.47%) SAP
6 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco
7 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.74%) F5
7 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.74%) IBM
7 1 (0.74%) Juniper
7 1 (0.74%) Okta
7 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.74%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow