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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 159 95 99
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.02% 12.04% 12.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.29% 41.30% 47.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 69 62
10th Percentile £260 £363 £310
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £478
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -3.14% +12.35%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £608
90th Percentile £675 £575 £644
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile - - £20.84
25th Percentile £17.97 - £24.87
Median hourly rate £25.75 £16.35 £34.16
Median % change year-on-year +57.49% -52.14% -51.20%
75th Percentile - - £45.87
90th Percentile - - £51.35
England median hourly rate £52.50 £33.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +57.26% -13.29% -16.63%

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 376 230 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.42% 29.15% 26.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 174 120
10th Percentile £213 £332 £190
25th Percentile £378 £369 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -0.33% -0.66%
75th Percentile £548 £500 £600
90th Percentile £650 £573 £649
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 7 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £17.64 £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.38 £16.63
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +16.76% +11.03%
75th Percentile £24.28 - £39.68
90th Percentile £25.75 - £48.87
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Derbyshire 0 46 £500 +15.94% 30
Northamptonshire +13 32 £550 +25.20% 22
Lincolnshire +1 29 £435 -13.86% 33
Leicestershire -1 26 £533 +15.14% 62
Nottinghamshire -5 23 £425 -11.92% 91
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 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Pig
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.90%) Azure DevOps
2 34 (21.38%) Entra ID
3 26 (16.35%) Power Platform
4 25 (15.72%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (15.09%) AWS
6 21 (13.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (7.55%) Azure AKS
7 12 (7.55%) SaaS
8 11 (6.92%) GCP
8 11 (6.92%) IaaS
8 11 (6.92%) PaaS
9 10 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (4.40%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.77%) GitHub
13 4 (2.52%) Azure Databricks
13 4 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.69%) Firewall
2 14 (8.81%) VPN
3 11 (6.92%) DNS
4 10 (6.29%) DHCP
5 8 (5.03%) VLAN
6 7 (4.40%) Network Security
7 6 (3.77%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.14%) SAN
8 5 (3.14%) WAN
9 3 (1.89%) BGP
9 3 (1.89%) LAN
9 3 (1.89%) OSPF
9 3 (1.89%) SMS
10 2 (1.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.26%) SSL
11 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.63%) IPsec
11 1 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.47%) Power BI
2 17 (10.69%) Data Lake
2 17 (10.69%) SQL Server
3 13 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.66%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.14%) Big Data
7 3 (1.89%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.89%) Power Query
8 2 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.26%) HBase
8 2 (1.26%) MySQL
8 2 (1.26%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.26%) Redis
8 2 (1.26%) Sqoop
9 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Git
1 6 (3.77%) JIRA
2 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.89%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.26%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.26%) GitLab
3 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.63%) Ant
4 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.63%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.63%) MSI
4 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.92%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.03%) Banking
6 8 (5.03%) Finance
7 6 (3.77%) Law
8 5 (3.14%) Police
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
9 3 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.26%) Legal
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (25.79%) Developer
2 29 (18.24%) Senior
3 22 (13.84%) Architect
4 20 (12.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (10.69%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (9.43%) Analyst
8 14 (8.81%) .NET Developer
9 11 (6.92%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.29%) Lead
10 10 (6.29%) Senior SQL Developer
10 10 (6.29%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.29%) SQL Developer
11 8 (5.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.40%) .NET Software Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Consultant
12 7 (4.40%) Data Architect
12 7 (4.40%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.69%) .NET
2 14 (8.81%) Terraform
3 8 (5.03%) Kafka
4 7 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (3.14%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.52%) REST
6 4 (2.52%) RESTful
7 3 (1.89%) Middleware
8 2 (1.26%) ADO
8 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.26%) Celery
8 2 (1.26%) Django
8 2 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.26%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.26%) Node.js
8 2 (1.26%) OAuth
8 2 (1.26%) pytest
8 2 (1.26%) React
8 2 (1.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) CMDB
1 9 (5.66%) Driving Licence
2 6 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.52%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.52%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.52%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.89%) IVR
6 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.26%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.63%) Omics
7 1 (0.63%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.64%) Windows
2 14 (8.81%) Windows 10
3 13 (8.18%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.66%) Linux
5 5 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.89%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.89%) Unix
7 2 (1.26%) CentOS
7 2 (1.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.63%) Android
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.45%) DevOps
2 32 (20.13%) CI/CD
2 32 (20.13%) Migration
3 27 (16.98%) Agile
4 26 (16.35%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (15.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (11.95%) Data Modelling
9 18 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.06%) Analytics
10 16 (10.06%) Microservices
10 16 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (7.55%) Decision-Making
13 12 (7.55%) ETL
14 11 (6.92%) ITIL
14 11 (6.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (27.67%) SQL
2 20 (12.58%) Python
3 18 (11.32%) C#
4 10 (6.29%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.40%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.77%) Java
7 4 (2.52%) Bicep
8 3 (1.89%) Rust
9 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.26%) R
9 2 (1.26%) Scala
9 2 (1.26%) VBA
10 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 39 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.81%) Degree
4 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.52%) CISM
5 4 (2.52%) CISSP
5 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.89%) CCNP
6 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.26%) CCNA
7 2 (1.26%) CRISC
7 2 (1.26%) MCSA
7 2 (1.26%) MCSE
8 1 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.63%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.77%) GDPR
3 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.89%) PMO
4 2 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.26%) NIST
4 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.63%) GRC
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.63%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (24.53%) Active Directory
2 20 (12.58%) Docker
3 7 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.26%) Apache Flume
5 2 (1.26%) HDFS
6 1 (0.63%) Firmware
6 1 (0.63%) NFS
6 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (8.18%) SCCM
4 6 (3.77%) Ansible
5 3 (1.89%) VxRail
6 2 (1.26%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.26%) Istio
6 2 (1.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 69 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.87%) Databricks
3 8 (5.03%) Oracle
3 8 (5.03%) VMware
4 4 (2.52%) Aruba
4 4 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.89%) Cisco
5 3 (1.89%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.89%) SAP
5 3 (1.89%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.63%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.63%) F5
7 1 (0.63%) Juniper
7 1 (0.63%) NetApp
7 1 (0.63%) Okta
7 1 (0.63%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.63%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud