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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 135 76 98
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.04% 11.19% 11.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.19% 37.81% 42.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 54 67
10th Percentile £260 £363 £312
25th Percentile £412 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -8.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £625
90th Percentile £660 £529 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.22 -
25th Percentile £15.52 £15.41 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% - -
75th Percentile £21.63 £16.04 -
90th Percentile £24.10 £16.22 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £43.23 £36.75
% change year-on-year +33.02% +17.62% -41.67%

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 320 201 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.55% 29.60% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 149 145
10th Percentile £199 £275 £164
25th Percentile £393 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% -1.24% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £655 £538 £642
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 9 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.82 £13.62
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.35 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +52.79% -30.00%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £26.50
90th Percentile £24.58 £21.71 £27.50
England median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +9 39 £500 +17.65% 14
Derbyshire +5 35 £530 +14.59% 16
Nottinghamshire -6 29 £444 -11.25% 22
Leicestershire -3 20 £529 +14.32% 29
Lincolnshire -5 10 £503 +179.17% 19
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 (5.19%) Confluence
2 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
2 28 (20.74%) AWS
2 28 (20.74%) Power Platform
3 22 (16.30%) Entra ID
4 16 (11.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 13 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (6.67%) GCP
8 7 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.44%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.70%) IaaS
10 5 (3.70%) PaaS
10 5 (3.70%) Serverless
11 4 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.96%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.96%) SaaS
12 3 (2.22%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.93%) Firewall
1 8 (5.93%) VLAN
2 7 (5.19%) Network Security
3 3 (2.22%) DHCP
3 3 (2.22%) DNS
3 3 (2.22%) SMS
3 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.22%) VPN
3 3 (2.22%) WAN
4 2 (1.48%) BGP
4 2 (1.48%) OSPF
4 2 (1.48%) SAN
4 2 (1.48%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.74%) LAN
5 1 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.04%) Power BI
2 17 (12.59%) SQL Server
3 15 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (10.37%) Data Lake
5 12 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.22%) Big Data
8 3 (2.22%) Power Query
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.48%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.74%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.74%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 9 (6.67%) JIRA
2 8 (5.93%) Git
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.22%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.48%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.48%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) MSI
4 2 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.74%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.74%) Hudson
General
1 47 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.11%) Finance
3 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.63%) Banking
4 10 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Law
5 6 (4.44%) Local Government
5 6 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.70%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Police
7 4 (2.96%) Marketing
8 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 23 (17.04%) Developer
2 22 (16.30%) Senior
3 20 (14.81%) Architect
4 16 (11.85%) Analyst
5 13 (9.63%) .NET Developer
6 12 (8.89%) Software Developer
7 11 (8.15%) Lead
8 10 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) .NET Software Developer
10 8 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Senior Architect
12 6 (4.44%) Consultant
12 6 (4.44%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.70%) C# Developer
13 5 (3.70%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.33%) .NET
2 8 (5.93%) Kafka
2 8 (5.93%) RESTful
3 6 (4.44%) PySpark
3 6 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (4.44%) REST
4 4 (2.96%) Node.js
5 3 (2.22%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.22%) J2EE
5 3 (2.22%) Middleware
5 3 (2.22%) OSGi
6 2 (1.48%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.48%) ADO
6 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.48%) HTML
6 2 (1.48%) SOAP
6 2 (1.48%) Software Packaging
6 2 (1.48%) Web Services
6 2 (1.48%) YAML
7 1 (0.74%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.19%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (2.96%) Smartphone
5 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.22%) IVR
5 3 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) CMDB
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Life Science
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.74%) Windows
2 14 (10.37%) Linux
3 6 (4.44%) Windows 10
3 6 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.96%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.22%) Unix
7 2 (1.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.74%) VMS
8 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.52%) DevOps
2 38 (28.15%) Agile
3 37 (27.41%) CI/CD
4 20 (14.81%) Analytics
4 20 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (14.81%) Microservices
4 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (14.07%) Migration
5 19 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (11.85%) Data Modelling
7 14 (10.37%) Containerisation
7 14 (10.37%) ETL
8 12 (8.89%) Data Protection
8 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (8.89%) ITIL
8 12 (8.89%) Validation
9 11 (8.15%) CRM
10 10 (7.41%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.89%) SQL
2 25 (18.52%) Python
3 19 (14.07%) C#
4 14 (10.37%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.44%) Java
7 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.22%) Rust
8 2 (1.48%) Bicep
8 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.48%) VBA
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.93%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) NVQ Level 3
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.22%) CISM
6 3 (2.22%) CISSP
7 2 (1.48%) CCNA
7 2 (1.48%) CCNP
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.74%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.74%) MCSA
8 1 (0.74%) MCSE
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.19%) GDPR
3 4 (2.96%) PMO
4 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.48%) QA
5 1 (0.74%) COBIT
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (20.74%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.11%) Docker
3 7 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.74%) Firmware
6 1 (0.74%) HDFS
6 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.33%) Terraform
3 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.19%) Ansible
5 5 (3.70%) SCCM
6 2 (1.48%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.48%) Istio
6 2 (1.48%) Puppet
7 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (38.52%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.33%) Databricks
3 8 (5.93%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.93%) VMware
4 6 (4.44%) Oracle
5 3 (2.22%) Adobe
5 3 (2.22%) SAP
5 3 (2.22%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.48%) Cisco
6 2 (1.48%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.48%) NetApp
7 1 (0.74%) Apple
7 1 (0.74%) Ariba
7 1 (0.74%) Google
7 1 (0.74%) IFS
7 1 (0.74%) Intel
7 1 (0.74%) OpenText
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Sybase