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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 110 65 97
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.47% 10.82% 13.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.04% 42.48% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 39 79
10th Percentile £340 £290 £298
25th Percentile £400 £348 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -19.05%
75th Percentile £525 £546 £525
90th Percentile £611 £613 £578
England median daily rate £520 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -1.70% -3.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £20.84 -
25th Percentile £16.25 £24.87 £27.75
Median hourly rate £16.50 £34.16 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.70% +12.00% +72.12%
75th Percentile £16.75 £45.87 £33.25
90th Percentile - £51.35 -
England median hourly rate £45.73 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.66% -24.21% -9.45%

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 268 153 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.39% 25.46% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 87 223
10th Percentile £213 £187 £253
25th Percentile £360 £356 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.70% -5.32%
75th Percentile £500 £541 £530
90th Percentile £613 £613 £613
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.49 £11.51
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £29.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% +65.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £24.03 £43.51 £33.25
90th Percentile £38.94 £50.40 £90.75
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.34% +33.12% +3.29%

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 December 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 16 December 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 +3 35 £450 -5.26% 39
Northamptonshire -5 27 £436 +22.47% 34
Nottinghamshire +4 22 £464 -11.24% 50
Leicestershire -3 19 £440 -12.00% 40
Lincolnshire -10 6 £528 +240.32% 27
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 6 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.91%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.91%) CMS
5 1 (0.91%) Documentum
5 1 (0.91%) IIS
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (2.73%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.73%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.73%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.73%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.73%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (2.73%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.82%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.91%) Endur
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.64%) AWS
2 36 (32.73%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 18 (16.36%) GCP
5 15 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 10 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 8 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (6.36%) Serverless
9 5 (4.55%) Azure Functions
9 5 (4.55%) GitHub
9 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.55%) IaaS
9 5 (4.55%) PaaS
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.64%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.64%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (2.73%) Firewall
2 3 (2.73%) VPN
3 2 (1.82%) DHCP
3 2 (1.82%) VLAN
4 1 (0.91%) SMTP
4 1 (0.91%) SSL
4 1 (0.91%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (6.36%) Power BI
2 6 (5.45%) Big Data
2 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.55%) Metadata
4 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.82%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.82%) Power Query
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.91%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.91%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Git
2 5 (4.55%) JIRA
3 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (46.36%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.36%) Aerospace
4 7 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.36%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.73%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.91%) Automotive
9 1 (0.91%) Electronics
9 1 (0.91%) Law
9 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.91%) Marketing
9 1 (0.91%) Military
9 1 (0.91%) Publishing
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (12.73%) Architect
1 14 (12.73%) Azure Engineer
1 14 (12.73%) Developer
2 11 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (9.09%) Senior
4 8 (7.27%) Analyst
4 8 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) Lead
5 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Data Scientist
6 5 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.64%) Azure Specialist
7 4 (3.64%) Desktop Support
7 4 (3.64%) Desktop Support Technician
7 4 (3.64%) Desktop Technician
7 4 (3.64%) DevOps Specialist
7 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (3.64%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) Support Technician
8 3 (2.73%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.55%) ADO
2 5 (4.55%) REST
3 4 (3.64%) Kafka
3 4 (3.64%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.73%) .NET
4 3 (2.73%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (2.73%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.73%) Pandas
4 3 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.73%) RESTful
4 3 (2.73%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.82%) CSS
5 2 (1.82%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.82%) HTML
5 2 (1.82%) LDAP
5 2 (1.82%) OAuth
5 2 (1.82%) OpenID
5 2 (1.82%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.55%) Security Posture
2 5 (4.55%) Smartphone
3 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.73%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.91%) PKI
6 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (6.36%) Mac OS
3 6 (5.45%) Android
3 6 (5.45%) Linux
3 6 (5.45%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.64%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.64%) VMS
5 3 (2.73%) Unix
5 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.73%) DevOps
2 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
3 24 (21.82%) Analytics
4 23 (20.91%) Agile
5 22 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
9 14 (12.73%) Roadmaps
10 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.91%) Data Science
11 12 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (10.00%) Business Strategy
12 11 (10.00%) Incident Response
13 10 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (9.09%) Identity Management
13 10 (9.09%) Migration
13 10 (9.09%) Scrum
14 9 (8.18%) ETL
14 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.55%) SQL
2 22 (20.00%) Python
3 18 (16.36%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.18%) Bash
5 6 (5.45%) C#
6 4 (3.64%) C++
6 4 (3.64%) Java
7 3 (2.73%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.73%) R
7 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.73%) X++
8 2 (1.82%) C
8 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) Degree
4 7 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.82%) CISA
6 2 (1.82%) CISM
6 2 (1.82%) CISSP
6 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (10.91%) GDPR
3 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.64%) QA
5 3 (2.73%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.73%) NIST
5 3 (2.73%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.82%) COBIT
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.91%) EMIR
7 1 (0.91%) MiFID
7 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (17.27%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.55%) Docker
4 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (13.64%) Terraform
2 14 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (10.00%) SCCM
4 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.82%) Ansible
6 2 (1.82%) Grafana
6 2 (1.82%) Istio
6 2 (1.82%) Puppet
6 2 (1.82%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (0.91%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.91%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.73%) Databricks
3 10 (9.09%) VMware
4 9 (8.18%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.36%) Citrix
6 5 (4.55%) Oracle
7 4 (3.64%) Google
8 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.73%) Informatica
8 3 (2.73%) Samsung
8 3 (2.73%) Talend
9 2 (1.82%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.82%) IBM
9 2 (1.82%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.82%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.82%) Siemens
10 1 (0.91%) Dell
10 1 (0.91%) Genesys
10 1 (0.91%) OpenText
10 1 (0.91%) SAP