Azure Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 82 95 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.37% 11.00% 15.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.68% 43.78% 51.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 66 122
10th Percentile £363 £308 £261
25th Percentile £390 £366 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +10.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £605 £536
90th Percentile £541 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £15.22 - -
25th Percentile £15.41 - £26.48
Median hourly rate £15.72 - £30.00
75th Percentile £16.04 - £70.00
90th Percentile £16.22 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £42.34 £60.35
% change year-on-year +6.28% -29.84% +27.05%

All Cloud 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 212 217 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.40% 25.12% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 139 225
10th Percentile £308 £179 £202
25th Percentile £366 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £538
90th Percentile £541 £632 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 18
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.62 £13.11
25th Percentile £16.89 - £13.57
Median hourly rate £20.95 £14.00 £24.49
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -42.83% +24.79%
75th Percentile £21.39 £26.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £21.55 £27.50 £90.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 -5 29 £435 -3.27% 70
Leicestershire +7 19 £463 +15.63% 100
Derbyshire +5 15 £436 -12.75% 126
Nottinghamshire -4 14 £500 - 138
Lincolnshire -2 4 £180 -72.83% 59
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.44%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.22%) Endur
3 1 (1.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.02%) AWS
2 27 (32.93%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (14.63%) GCP
4 9 (10.98%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.54%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.10%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.10%) SaaS
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.66%) IaaS
9 3 (3.66%) PaaS
9 3 (3.66%) Serverless
10 2 (2.44%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Firewall
2 4 (4.88%) DNS
3 3 (3.66%) VPN
4 2 (2.44%) DMZ
4 2 (2.44%) Internet
5 1 (1.22%) DHCP
5 1 (1.22%) HTTP
5 1 (1.22%) MQTT
5 1 (1.22%) SSL
5 1 (1.22%) VLAN
5 1 (1.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Power BI
2 5 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.88%) Big Data
3 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.88%) Tableau
4 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) GIS
6 1 (1.22%) Metadata
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.22%) Power Query
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (19.51%) Git
2 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.66%) Chocolatey
3 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 3 (3.66%) Maven
3 3 (3.66%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.44%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.44%) Gradle
4 2 (2.44%) NetBeans
4 2 (2.44%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.22%) Introscope
5 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.22%) Selenium
5 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.22%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (19.51%) Finance
3 12 (14.63%) Banking
4 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.44%) Law
5 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Games
6 1 (1.22%) Local Government
6 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (20.73%) Architect
2 14 (17.07%) Developer
3 12 (14.63%) Analyst
4 8 (9.76%) Business Analyst
5 7 (8.54%) Android Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.88%) Senior
9 3 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Consultant
9 3 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Product Owner
10 2 (2.44%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.44%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) LDAP
1 8 (9.76%) RESTful
2 7 (8.54%) .NET
2 7 (8.54%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (8.54%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (6.10%) REST
4 4 (4.88%) OAuth
4 4 (4.88%) SAML
5 3 (3.66%) FIDO
5 3 (3.66%) HTML
5 3 (3.66%) OpenID
5 3 (3.66%) Web Services
6 2 (2.44%) CSS
6 2 (2.44%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.44%) POSIX
6 2 (2.44%) Spring
7 1 (1.22%) ADO
7 1 (1.22%) J2EE
7 1 (1.22%) Middleware
7 1 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.54%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.32%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.88%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.22%) IoT
6 1 (1.22%) iPhone
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) PKI
6 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.22%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Android
2 7 (8.54%) Windows
3 6 (7.32%) Linux
4 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.44%) VMS
6 1 (1.22%) AIX
6 1 (1.22%) CentOS
6 1 (1.22%) Rocky
6 1 (1.22%) Unix
6 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) DevOps
2 25 (30.49%) Agile
3 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (24.39%) CI/CD
5 16 (19.51%) Scrum
6 15 (18.29%) ETL
6 15 (18.29%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (17.07%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.85%) Microservices
9 12 (14.63%) Roadmaps
10 11 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (10.98%) Digital Identity
11 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (10.98%) Unit Testing
12 8 (9.76%) Analytics
12 8 (9.76%) High Availability
12 8 (9.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 7 (8.54%) Android Development
13 7 (8.54%) Data Transformation
13 7 (8.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) SQL
2 17 (20.73%) Python
3 12 (14.63%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.20%) Java
5 9 (10.98%) C#
6 7 (8.54%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.88%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.66%) Bash
8 3 (3.66%) C
8 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.44%) C++
9 2 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.44%) X++
10 1 (1.22%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.22%) Bicep
10 1 (1.22%) R
10 1 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.22%) CISA
6 1 (1.22%) CISM
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) GDPR
2 6 (7.32%) NIST
3 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.88%) NIST 800
5 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.44%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.44%) MISRA
6 2 (2.44%) MISRA C
6 2 (2.44%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (1.22%) COBIT
7 1 (1.22%) EMIR
7 1 (1.22%) IEC 61508
7 1 (1.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.22%) MiFID
7 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.54%) Docker
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.22%) Firmware
4 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) Terraform
2 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.32%) Ansible
3 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.66%) AirWatch
5 3 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.66%) SCCM
6 2 (2.44%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (1.22%) CA Wily
7 1 (1.22%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.22%) Podman
7 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.22%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Databricks
3 3 (3.66%) Google
3 3 (3.66%) IBM
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle
3 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.66%) VMware
4 2 (2.44%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.44%) Perforce
4 2 (2.44%) Ping Identity
4 2 (2.44%) QNX
5 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.22%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.22%) Cisco
5 1 (1.22%) Cognos
5 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.22%) MobileIron
5 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.22%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.22%) Zerto