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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 129 52 81
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.61% 9.54% 10.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.33% 33.55% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 36 57
10th Percentile £213 £268 £312
25th Percentile £361 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +0.27% +2.78%
75th Percentile £543 £526 £625
90th Percentile £600 £684 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -3.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £14.08 - -
25th Percentile £14.89 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £16.50 £15.09 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -50.52% +15.18%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.75% +14.29% -36.36%

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 328 155 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.52% 28.44% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 116 147
10th Percentile £195 £250 £163
25th Percentile £357 £358 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +8.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £543 £511 £525
90th Percentile £600 £548 £655
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 13
10th Percentile £13.07 £13.34 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.09 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.05 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +2.50% -11.82%
75th Percentile £19.03 £20.92 £27.50
90th Percentile £25.09 £22.20 £32.10
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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
Northamptonshire +3 36 £450 -3.23% 27
Nottinghamshire -2 34 £406 -18.75% 45
Derbyshire +3 33 £535 +12.63% 23
Leicestershire +1 17 £418 -9.73% 35
Lincolnshire -7 8 £470 +161.11% 12
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 11 (8.53%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.20%) Confluence
3 4 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (36.43%) Azure DevOps
2 32 (24.81%) AWS
3 23 (17.83%) Entra ID
4 21 (16.28%) Power Platform
5 17 (13.18%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (11.63%) GCP
7 13 (10.08%) Azure AKS
8 11 (8.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.88%) GitHub
11 5 (3.88%) IaaS
11 5 (3.88%) PaaS
11 5 (3.88%) Serverless
12 4 (3.10%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) VLAN
2 5 (3.88%) Firewall
3 4 (3.10%) Network Security
3 4 (3.10%) VPN
4 3 (2.33%) SMS
5 2 (1.55%) BGP
5 2 (1.55%) DHCP
5 2 (1.55%) DNS
5 2 (1.55%) OSPF
5 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.55%) WAN
6 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.95%) Power BI
2 12 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.20%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.10%) Big Data
7 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.33%) Metadata
8 3 (2.33%) Power Query
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.55%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.78%) MySQL
10 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.78%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Git
2 11 (8.53%) JIRA
3 6 (4.65%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.10%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.55%) GitLab
7 1 (0.78%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.78%) Hudson
7 1 (0.78%) MSI
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
General
1 54 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.50%) Finance
3 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Banking
4 9 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.43%) Law
6 5 (3.88%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (3.88%) Local Government
6 5 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Police
6 5 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Marketing
8 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.78%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.78%) Automotive
8 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 21 (16.28%) Senior
2 17 (13.18%) Architect
3 15 (11.63%) Analyst
4 13 (10.08%) Developer
5 12 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Software Developer
7 9 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.98%) Desktop Support
7 9 (6.98%) Lead
8 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Desktop Support Technician
9 7 (5.43%) Desktop Technician
9 7 (5.43%) Support Technician
10 6 (4.65%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.65%) .NET Software Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Consultant
10 6 (4.65%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (3.88%) Senior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.75%) .NET
2 9 (6.98%) Kafka
3 8 (6.20%) RESTful
4 7 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (4.65%) ADO
6 5 (3.88%) PySpark
6 5 (3.88%) REST
7 4 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.10%) Node.js
8 3 (2.33%) J2EE
8 3 (2.33%) OSGi
9 2 (1.55%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.55%) HTML
9 2 (1.55%) Middleware
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.55%) Pandas
9 2 (1.55%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.55%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.55%) Web Services
9 2 (1.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.75%) Cloud Native
1 10 (7.75%) Smartphone
2 7 (5.43%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.33%) IVR
6 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Replication
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.81%) Windows
2 14 (10.85%) Linux
3 10 (7.75%) Windows 10
4 9 (6.98%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.10%) Unix
5 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.55%) CentOS
6 2 (1.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (44.19%) DevOps
2 45 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 37 (28.68%) Agile
4 26 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (17.83%) Analytics
7 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (15.50%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (15.50%) Microservices
9 19 (14.73%) Migration
10 15 (11.63%) Data Protection
11 13 (10.08%) Business Continuity
11 13 (10.08%) Containerisation
11 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (9.30%) Data Modelling
12 12 (9.30%) ITIL
13 11 (8.53%) Change Management
13 11 (8.53%) Customer Service
13 11 (8.53%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 35 (27.13%) SQL
2 33 (25.58%) Python
3 16 (12.40%) PowerShell
4 12 (9.30%) C#
5 8 (6.20%) Java
6 4 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.33%) Bash
7 3 (2.33%) Rust
8 2 (1.55%) Bicep
8 2 (1.55%) C++
8 2 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.55%) R
8 2 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.55%) VBA
9 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.88%) Degree
3 5 (3.88%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.55%) CCNA
6 2 (1.55%) CCNP
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.98%) GDPR
3 4 (3.10%) PMO
4 3 (2.33%) QA
4 3 (2.33%) SLA
5 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.78%) COBIT
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (21.71%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.85%) Docker
3 8 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (17.05%) Terraform
2 21 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (9.30%) SCCM
5 9 (6.98%) Ansible
6 4 (3.10%) Istio
6 4 (3.10%) Puppet
7 2 (1.55%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 46 (35.66%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.08%) Databricks
3 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.20%) VMware
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle
6 3 (2.33%) Adobe
6 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.33%) Google
6 3 (2.33%) Informatica
6 3 (2.33%) SAP
6 3 (2.33%) Talend
7 2 (1.55%) Cisco
7 2 (1.55%) Citrix
7 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.55%) NetApp
8 1 (0.78%) Apple
8 1 (0.78%) Ariba
8 1 (0.78%) Intel
8 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.78%) Sybase