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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 122 52 76
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.11% 9.37% 9.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.89% 32.50% 37.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 38 52
10th Percentile £213 £271 £310
25th Percentile £359 £377 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% - +2.78%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £625
90th Percentile £600 £678 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -2.68%
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 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +10.71% -40.32%

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 322 160 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.33% 28.83% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 122 142
10th Percentile £190 £250 £163
25th Percentile £356 £358 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £422
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +9.18% -5.17%
75th Percentile £549 £514 £534
90th Percentile £619 £561 £661
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 13
10th Percentile £13.19 £13.42 -
25th Percentile £13.51 £14.42 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +14.25% -16.85%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £27.50
90th Percentile £24.56 £22.03 £32.10
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%

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 12 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 12 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
Nottinghamshire 0 34 £406 -18.75% 45
Northamptonshire +7 33 £464 +1.37% 17
Derbyshire +3 33 £535 +14.13% 20
Leicestershire -5 13 £450 -2.70% 33
Lincolnshire -6 8 £470 +161.11% 11
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 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.56%) Confluence
3 4 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.25%) Azure DevOps
2 29 (23.77%) AWS
3 23 (18.85%) Entra ID
4 21 (17.21%) Power Platform
5 17 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (9.84%) GCP
7 11 (9.02%) Azure AKS
8 8 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.10%) Serverless
11 4 (3.28%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.46%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.46%) GitHub
12 3 (2.46%) IaaS
12 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.46%) PaaS
12 3 (2.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.56%) VLAN
2 5 (4.10%) Firewall
3 4 (3.28%) Network Security
3 4 (3.28%) VPN
4 3 (2.46%) SMS
5 2 (1.64%) BGP
5 2 (1.64%) DHCP
5 2 (1.64%) DNS
5 2 (1.64%) OSPF
5 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.64%) WAN
6 1 (0.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.75%) Power BI
2 12 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.56%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.28%) Big Data
7 4 (3.28%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.46%) Power Query
9 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.64%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.82%) MySQL
10 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.82%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Git
1 11 (9.02%) JIRA
2 6 (4.92%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.46%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.64%) GitLab
6 1 (0.82%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.82%) Hudson
6 1 (0.82%) MSI
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
General
1 49 (40.16%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.93%) Finance
3 11 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.38%) Banking
4 9 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.74%) Law
6 5 (4.10%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (4.10%) Local Government
6 5 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Police
6 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Marketing
8 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.82%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.82%) Automotive
8 1 (0.82%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 19 (15.57%) Senior
2 17 (13.93%) Architect
3 15 (12.30%) Analyst
4 13 (10.66%) Developer
5 11 (9.02%) Software Developer
6 9 (7.38%) Desktop Support
6 9 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Desktop Support Technician
8 7 (5.74%) Desktop Technician
8 7 (5.74%) Support Technician
9 6 (4.92%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.92%) .NET Software Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Consultant
9 6 (4.92%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.92%) Lead
10 5 (4.10%) Help Desk Technician
10 5 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.20%) .NET
2 8 (6.56%) RESTful
3 6 (4.92%) Kafka
4 5 (4.10%) PySpark
4 5 (4.10%) REST
5 4 (3.28%) ADO
5 4 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.28%) Node.js
5 4 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.46%) J2EE
6 3 (2.46%) OSGi
7 2 (1.64%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.64%) HTML
7 2 (1.64%) Middleware
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.64%) Pandas
7 2 (1.64%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.64%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.64%) Web Services
7 2 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.20%) Smartphone
2 7 (5.74%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.10%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.46%) IVR
5 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.23%) Windows
2 14 (11.48%) Linux
3 10 (8.20%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.38%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.28%) Unix
5 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.64%) CentOS
6 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.82%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.44%) DevOps
2 40 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 34 (27.87%) Agile
4 25 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (16.39%) Analytics
7 20 (16.39%) Microservices
8 19 (15.57%) Migration
9 18 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (12.30%) Data Protection
12 13 (10.66%) Business Continuity
12 13 (10.66%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.84%) Data Modelling
13 12 (9.84%) ITIL
14 11 (9.02%) Change Management
14 11 (9.02%) Customer Service
14 11 (9.02%) Infrastructure Automation
15 10 (8.20%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.23%) SQL
2 30 (24.59%) Python
3 14 (11.48%) PowerShell
4 12 (9.84%) C#
5 8 (6.56%) Java
6 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.46%) Bash
7 3 (2.46%) Rust
8 2 (1.64%) Bicep
8 2 (1.64%) C++
8 2 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.64%) R
8 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.64%) VBA
9 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.10%) Degree
3 5 (4.10%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.64%) CCNA
6 2 (1.64%) CCNP
6 2 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.38%) GDPR
2 4 (3.28%) PMO
3 3 (2.46%) QA
3 3 (2.46%) SLA
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.82%) COBIT
5 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (22.95%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.48%) Docker
3 8 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (14.75%) Terraform
3 12 (9.84%) SCCM
4 9 (7.38%) Ansible
5 4 (3.28%) Istio
5 4 (3.28%) Puppet
6 2 (1.64%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 43 (35.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.66%) Databricks
3 9 (7.38%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.56%) VMware
5 5 (4.10%) Oracle
6 3 (2.46%) Adobe
6 3 (2.46%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) SAP
7 2 (1.64%) Cisco
7 2 (1.64%) Citrix
7 2 (1.64%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.64%) NetApp
8 1 (0.82%) Apple
8 1 (0.82%) Ariba
8 1 (0.82%) F5
8 1 (0.82%) Intel
8 1 (0.82%) OpenText
8 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.82%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.82%) Sybase