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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 49 81 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.14% 10.48% 15.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.51% 38.21% 54.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 57 135
10th Percentile £265 £312 £294
25th Percentile £384 £363 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -3.23%
75th Percentile £529 £625 £538
90th Percentile £691 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £13.84
25th Percentile - £27.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £15.09 £30.50 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -50.52% +15.18% -24.34%
75th Percentile - £33.25 -
90th Percentile - - £28.59
England median hourly rate £44.25 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +26.43% -36.36% +10.00%

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 142 212 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.49% 27.43% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 231
10th Percentile £240 £163 £181
25th Percentile £356 £310 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £538
90th Percentile £558 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £13.25 - £14.57
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%
75th Percentile £19.50 £27.50 £24.43
90th Percentile £21.60 £32.10 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Leicestershire +1 12 £463 +0.65% 103
Nottinghamshire -4 12 £500 +11.11% 120
Derbyshire +12 11 £475 +2.70% 157
Northamptonshire -7 10 £465 +4.49% 83
Lincolnshire -3 2 £180 -71.20% 82
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 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.08%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (30.61%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) GCP
4 7 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.16%) Asana
5 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.08%) Azure API Management
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Batch
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.04%) IaaS
8 1 (2.04%) PaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) HTTP
2 1 (2.04%) DHCP
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Power BI
2 3 (6.12%) Big Data
2 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) Tableau
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.04%) Power Query
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.16%) JIRA
4 3 (6.12%) Chocolatey
4 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.08%) Eclipse
5 2 (4.08%) Introscope
5 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
5 2 (4.08%) NetBeans
5 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) Maven
6 1 (2.04%) Selenium
6 1 (2.04%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.04%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Games
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (14.29%) Architect
2 6 (12.24%) Developer
3 5 (10.20%) Android Developer
3 5 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) IT Manager
3 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Architect
4 4 (8.16%) IT Project Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Lead
4 4 (8.16%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Architect
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) Android Jetpack
2 5 (10.20%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (8.16%) RESTful
4 2 (4.08%) HTML
4 2 (4.08%) J2EE
4 2 (4.08%) OAuth
4 2 (4.08%) POSIX
4 2 (4.08%) SAML
4 2 (4.08%) Web Services
5 1 (2.04%) ADO
5 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) JWT
5 1 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.04%) Middleware
5 1 (2.04%) OpenID
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) SOAP
5 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) iPhone
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Android
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
2 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) AIX
3 2 (4.08%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) CentOS
4 1 (2.04%) Rocky
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) DevOps
2 19 (38.78%) Agile
3 15 (30.61%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
5 10 (20.41%) Migration
5 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.33%) Scrum
7 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (14.29%) Project Management
7 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
8 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.24%) Unit Testing
8 6 (12.24%) Waterfall
9 5 (10.20%) Analytics
9 5 (10.20%) Android Development
9 5 (10.20%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (10.20%) Data Analytics
9 5 (10.20%) Data Migration
9 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) PowerShell
3 11 (22.45%) SQL
4 8 (16.33%) C#
5 5 (10.20%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.16%) C
7 3 (6.12%) Bash
7 3 (6.12%) Bicep
7 3 (6.12%) Java
8 2 (4.08%) C++
8 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.04%) R
9 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
1 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) MISRA
2 2 (4.08%) MISRA C
2 2 (4.08%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.04%) IEC 61508
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) Docker
3 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.04%) Firmware
4 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Terraform
2 6 (12.24%) Ansible
2 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.12%) AirWatch
4 3 (6.12%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (6.12%) SCCM
5 2 (4.08%) CA Wily
6 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.04%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Databricks
3 4 (8.16%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.12%) VMware
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Perforce
5 2 (4.08%) QNX
5 2 (4.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) Cisco
6 1 (2.04%) Citrix
6 1 (2.04%) HP
6 1 (2.04%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce