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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 143 78 89
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.40% 10.24% 11.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.87% 33.91% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 57 63
10th Percentile £260 £365 £307
25th Percentile £391 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £608
90th Percentile £658 £545 £644
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.22 -
25th Percentile £17.62 £15.41 £18.16
Median hourly rate £17.97 £15.72 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% -14.19% -73.83%
75th Percentile - £16.04 £18.48
90th Percentile £21.86 £16.22 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £41.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.72% +18.43% -39.13%

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 326 230 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.27% 30.18% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 172 127
10th Percentile £205 £308 £180
25th Percentile £363 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £656 £543 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 10 6
10th Percentile £13.43 £14.96 £15.08
25th Percentile £13.52 £16.89 £17.01
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% -3.30% +0.67%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £27.50
90th Percentile £24.73 £21.55 £39.70
England median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%

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 31 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

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 31 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
Northamptonshire +18 39 £500 +14.42% 12
Derbyshire +3 30 £518 +18.62% 15
Nottinghamshire -1 26 £450 -10.00% 33
Leicestershire -3 23 £488 +5.41% 31
Lincolnshire +5 22 £435 - 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 7 (4.90%) Confluence
1 7 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Pig
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.47%) Azure DevOps
2 34 (23.78%) Power Platform
3 23 (16.08%) Entra ID
4 22 (15.38%) AWS
5 19 (13.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (10.49%) Azure AKS
6 15 (10.49%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (6.99%) GCP
8 6 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.20%) IaaS
8 6 (4.20%) PaaS
8 6 (4.20%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.50%) Serverless
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.29%) Firewall
2 8 (5.59%) VLAN
3 7 (4.90%) DNS
3 7 (4.90%) Network Security
4 6 (4.20%) DHCP
4 6 (4.20%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.50%) WAN
6 4 (2.80%) VPN
7 3 (2.10%) LAN
7 3 (2.10%) SMS
8 2 (1.40%) BGP
8 2 (1.40%) OSPF
8 2 (1.40%) SAN
8 2 (1.40%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.28%) Power BI
2 20 (13.99%) SQL Server
3 15 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (9.79%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (5.59%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.50%) Big Data
8 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.10%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.10%) Power Query
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.40%) HBase
10 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.40%) PowerPivot
10 2 (1.40%) Sqoop
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.99%) JIRA
2 8 (5.59%) Git
3 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.10%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.10%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.40%) GitLab
4 2 (1.40%) MSI
5 1 (0.70%) Ant
5 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.70%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.70%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.70%) Hudson
5 1 (0.70%) Maven
General
1 44 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.09%) Finance
5 12 (8.39%) Banking
5 12 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.20%) Law
8 5 (3.50%) Police
9 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.40%) Legal
11 2 (1.40%) Marketing
12 1 (0.70%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 32 (22.38%) Developer
2 24 (16.78%) Senior
3 20 (13.99%) Architect
4 17 (11.89%) Analyst
5 13 (9.09%) .NET Developer
6 12 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Software Developer
7 11 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Lead
9 8 (5.59%) .NET Software Developer
9 8 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.90%) Consultant
10 7 (4.90%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.90%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.20%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.50%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.89%) .NET
2 9 (6.29%) Kafka
3 6 (4.20%) PySpark
3 6 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (4.20%) REST
4 5 (3.50%) RESTful
5 4 (2.80%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.80%) Node.js
6 3 (2.10%) Middleware
7 2 (1.40%) ADO
7 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.40%) HTML
7 2 (1.40%) SOAP
7 2 (1.40%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.40%) Web Services
7 2 (1.40%) YAML
8 1 (0.70%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.70%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.70%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.59%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.50%) Driving Licence
2 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.10%) IVR
4 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.40%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.70%) CMDB
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) Life Science
6 1 (0.70%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.08%) Windows
2 9 (6.29%) Linux
3 6 (4.20%) Windows 10
3 6 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.10%) Unix
6 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.40%) CentOS
6 2 (1.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (38.46%) DevOps
2 36 (25.17%) Agile
3 34 (23.78%) CI/CD
4 27 (18.88%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (16.78%) Data Modelling
7 20 (13.99%) Analytics
7 20 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (13.29%) Migration
9 17 (11.89%) Microservices
9 17 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (11.19%) ETL
11 15 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (8.39%) Containerisation
13 12 (8.39%) Data Engineering
13 12 (8.39%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (8.39%) Validation
14 10 (6.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.07%) SQL
2 27 (18.88%) Python
3 19 (13.29%) C#
4 14 (9.79%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.20%) Java
7 3 (2.10%) Bicep
7 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.10%) Rust
8 2 (1.40%) R
8 2 (1.40%) Scala
8 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.40%) VBA
9 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.79%) Degree
4 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.10%) CISM
6 3 (2.10%) CISSP
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.40%) CCNA
7 2 (1.40%) CCNP
7 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.40%) MCSA
7 2 (1.40%) MCSE
8 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.70%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.70%) ECSA
8 1 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.50%) GDPR
3 4 (2.80%) PMO
4 2 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.40%) QA
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) COBIT
5 1 (0.70%) GRC
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (20.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.09%) Docker
3 5 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Flume
5 2 (1.40%) HDFS
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) NFS
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (13.29%) Kubernetes
1 19 (13.29%) Terraform
2 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.90%) Ansible
4 4 (2.80%) SCCM
5 3 (2.10%) VxRail
6 2 (1.40%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.40%) Istio
6 2 (1.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.70%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 59 (41.26%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.69%) Databricks
3 10 (6.99%) Oracle
4 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.20%) VMware
6 4 (2.80%) SAP
7 3 (2.10%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.40%) Cisco
8 2 (1.40%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.40%) NetApp
9 1 (0.70%) Ariba
9 1 (0.70%) Aruba
9 1 (0.70%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.70%) Google
9 1 (0.70%) IFS
9 1 (0.70%) OpenText
9 1 (0.70%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.70%) Sybase