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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 109 91 100
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.72% 12.50% 12.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.75% 46.43% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 57 82
10th Percentile £360 £310 £290
25th Percentile £400 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £501 £588 £530
90th Percentile £603 £622 £599
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Median hourly rate £16.35 £34.16 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -51.20% +80.13%
England median hourly rate £34.48 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.49% -24.21% -16.04%

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 255 196 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.75% 26.92% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 109 238
10th Percentile £301 £248 £213
25th Percentile £363 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £452
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -0.33% -8.79%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £530
90th Percentile £625 £620 £616
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 22
10th Percentile £17.91 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +75.76% +6.45%
75th Percentile - £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 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
Derbyshire +1 36 £450 -12.62% 22
Northamptonshire -7 34 £430 -3.48% 43
Nottinghamshire +1 16 £483 -3.50% 63
Leicestershire -2 15 £463 +2.78% 49
Lincolnshire -12 7 £505 -38.41% 20
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 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.92%) Alfresco
2 1 (0.92%) Apache
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Synapse
2 1 (0.92%) CMS
2 1 (0.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) Documentum
2 1 (0.92%) IIS
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.92%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.59%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (2.75%) Teamcenter
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.92%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.45%) AWS
2 29 (26.61%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (14.68%) Entra ID
4 15 (13.76%) GCP
5 13 (11.93%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.26%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (8.26%) Serverless
7 7 (6.42%) Azure Functions
7 7 (6.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (5.50%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.50%) PowerApps
9 5 (4.59%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.75%) SaaS
11 2 (1.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) DNS
1 4 (3.67%) Firewall
2 2 (1.83%) DMZ
2 2 (1.83%) Internet
2 2 (1.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.92%) DHCP
3 1 (0.92%) MQTT
3 1 (0.92%) SMTP
3 1 (0.92%) SSL
3 1 (0.92%) VLAN
3 1 (0.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (7.34%) Power BI
2 5 (4.59%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.67%) Big Data
3 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.75%) Metadata
4 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.83%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.83%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.83%) Power Query
5 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) Tableau
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) GIS
6 1 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) JIRA
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) Gradle
4 2 (1.83%) Maven
5 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.18%) Finance
3 12 (11.01%) Banking
4 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.42%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.92%) Electronics
10 1 (0.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.92%) Marketing
10 1 (0.92%) Military
10 1 (0.92%) Publishing
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (18.35%) Architect
2 18 (16.51%) Developer
3 13 (11.93%) Analyst
4 10 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.42%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (5.50%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Android Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Integration Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Azure Specialist
9 4 (3.67%) DevOps Specialist
9 4 (3.67%) Lead
9 4 (3.67%) Senior
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Consultant
10 3 (2.75%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.01%) ADO
2 9 (8.26%) LDAP
2 9 (8.26%) REST
3 7 (6.42%) RESTful
4 5 (4.59%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (4.59%) Jetpack Compose
5 3 (2.75%) .NET
5 3 (2.75%) CSS
5 3 (2.75%) FIDO
5 3 (2.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.75%) HTML
5 3 (2.75%) OAuth
5 3 (2.75%) OpenID
5 3 (2.75%) SAML
5 3 (2.75%) Spring
6 2 (1.83%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.83%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.83%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.59%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.59%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.67%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) PKI
6 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.84%) Windows
2 8 (7.34%) Android
3 5 (4.59%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.75%) Linux
4 3 (2.75%) VMS
4 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.83%) Unix
6 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (37.61%) DevOps
2 25 (22.94%) Agile
3 24 (22.02%) CI/CD
4 19 (17.43%) Analytics
5 18 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (15.60%) Scrum
7 16 (14.68%) Roadmaps
8 14 (12.84%) Enterprise Architecture
8 14 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.93%) ETL
9 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (11.01%) Microservices
11 11 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (10.09%) Identity Management
12 10 (9.17%) Business Strategy
12 10 (9.17%) Strategic Roadmap
13 9 (8.26%) Digital Identity
13 9 (8.26%) Incident Response
13 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.44%) SQL
2 15 (13.76%) Python
3 12 (11.01%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.34%) Java
5 6 (5.50%) Bash
6 5 (4.59%) C#
6 5 (4.59%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.59%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.59%) X++
7 3 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.83%) C
8 2 (1.83%) C++
8 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.34%) Degree
4 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.83%) CISA
6 2 (1.83%) CISM
6 2 (1.83%) CISSP
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (9.17%) GDPR
3 8 (7.34%) QA
4 7 (6.42%) NIST
5 5 (4.59%) NIST 800
6 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.67%) ISO 9001
7 3 (2.75%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.83%) COBIT
8 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.92%) EMIR
9 1 (0.92%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.92%) MiFID
9 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.67%) Docker
4 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (8.26%) Terraform
2 5 (4.59%) SCCM
3 4 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (37.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.17%) Databricks
3 9 (8.26%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.42%) VMware
5 5 (4.59%) Citrix
6 4 (3.67%) IBM
6 4 (3.67%) Oracle
7 3 (2.75%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.75%) Samsung
8 2 (1.83%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.83%) Google
8 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.83%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.83%) Siemens
9 1 (0.92%) Genesys
9 1 (0.92%) OpenText
9 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.92%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.92%) Trayport
9 1 (0.92%) Veeam