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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 125 68 97
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.36% 10.27% 11.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.68% 34.87% 40.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 52 66
10th Percentile £213 £363 £311
25th Percentile £384 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £625
90th Percentile £650 £548 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £14.33 - -
25th Percentile £15.52 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.09 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.97% - -
75th Percentile £21.63 - -
90th Percentile £24.10 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £49.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.75% +40.71% -44.44%

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 315 195 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.64% 29.46% 26.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 150 153
10th Percentile £199 £250 £163
25th Percentile £370 £358 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £440 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% -1.24% +1.14%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £544 £644
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.69 £13.62
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.65 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +52.79% -34.12%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £26.50
90th Percentile £20.60 £21.87 £27.50
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
% change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +10 38 £520 +21.21% 16
Derbyshire +4 32 £535 +15.68% 19
Nottinghamshire -2 29 £438 -12.50% 31
Leicestershire -4 18 £533 +15.14% 33
Lincolnshire -7 7 £435 +141.67% 12
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 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.80%) Confluence
3 3 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.60%) Azure DevOps
2 26 (20.80%) Power Platform
3 24 (19.20%) AWS
4 20 (16.00%) Entra ID
5 12 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.80%) Azure AKS
6 11 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.60%) GCP
9 6 (4.80%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.00%) Serverless
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.40%) VLAN
2 5 (4.00%) Firewall
2 5 (4.00%) Network Security
3 3 (2.40%) SMS
3 3 (2.40%) VPN
4 2 (1.60%) BGP
4 2 (1.60%) OSPF
4 2 (1.60%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.80%) DHCP
5 1 (0.80%) DNS
5 1 (0.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.80%) Power BI
2 16 (12.80%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (8.80%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.80%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.40%) Power Query
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.60%) Big Data
9 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.60%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.80%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.80%) MySQL
10 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.80%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) JIRA
2 8 (6.40%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.60%) MSI
4 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.80%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.80%) Hudson
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
General
1 46 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.20%) Finance
3 12 (9.60%) Banking
4 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.80%) Law
6 6 (4.80%) Local Government
6 6 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.00%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (4.00%) Police
8 4 (3.20%) Marketing
9 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.80%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.80%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (16.80%) Senior
2 20 (16.00%) Developer
3 19 (15.20%) Architect
4 15 (12.00%) Analyst
5 12 (9.60%) .NET Developer
6 11 (8.80%) Lead
6 11 (8.80%) Software Developer
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.60%) .NET Software Developer
8 7 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Senior Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Consultant
9 6 (4.80%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.00%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Desktop Support
10 5 (4.00%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.60%) .NET
2 8 (6.40%) RESTful
3 7 (5.60%) Kafka
4 6 (4.80%) PySpark
4 6 (4.80%) REST
5 5 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.20%) Node.js
7 3 (2.40%) J2EE
7 3 (2.40%) Middleware
7 3 (2.40%) OSGi
8 2 (1.60%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.60%) ADO
8 2 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.60%) HTML
8 2 (1.60%) SOAP
8 2 (1.60%) Software Packaging
8 2 (1.60%) Web Services
8 2 (1.60%) YAML
9 1 (0.80%) React
9 1 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.60%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.00%) Smartphone
4 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.40%) IVR
6 2 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) Omics
7 1 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.80%) Windows
2 11 (8.80%) Linux
3 7 (5.60%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.40%) Unix
7 2 (1.60%) CentOS
7 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.60%) DevOps
2 36 (28.80%) CI/CD
3 33 (26.40%) Agile
4 20 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (15.20%) Microservices
6 18 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.80%) Migration
9 15 (12.00%) Analytics
9 15 (12.00%) Data Modelling
10 12 (9.60%) CRM
10 12 (9.60%) Data Protection
10 12 (9.60%) ETL
10 12 (9.60%) ITIL
11 11 (8.80%) Containerisation
12 10 (8.00%) Business Continuity
12 10 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (7.20%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.40%) SQL
2 24 (19.20%) Python
3 18 (14.40%) C#
4 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.80%) Java
5 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.40%) Rust
7 2 (1.60%) Bicep
7 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.60%) VBA
8 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) NVQ Level 3
5 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.60%) CCNA
6 2 (1.60%) CCNP
6 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CISM
7 1 (0.80%) CISSP
7 1 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.80%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.80%) ECSA
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) OSCP
7 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (3.20%) PMO
4 3 (2.40%) QA
4 3 (2.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) COBIT
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.60%) Docker
3 6 (4.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (14.40%) Kubernetes
1 18 (14.40%) Terraform
2 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.60%) Ansible
4 6 (4.80%) SCCM
5 2 (1.60%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.60%) Istio
5 2 (1.60%) Puppet
6 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 46 (36.80%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.00%) Databricks
3 9 (7.20%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.80%) VMware
5 4 (3.20%) Oracle
6 3 (2.40%) Adobe
6 3 (2.40%) SAP
7 2 (1.60%) Cisco
7 2 (1.60%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.60%) NetApp
8 1 (0.80%) Apple
8 1 (0.80%) Ariba
8 1 (0.80%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) IFS
8 1 (0.80%) Intel
8 1 (0.80%) OpenText
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.80%) Sybase