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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 106 82 98
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.90% 11.83% 12.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.93% 45.81% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 50 82
10th Percentile £359 £313 £291
25th Percentile £401 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £515 £600 £530
90th Percentile £613 £632 £599
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £16.35 £34.16 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -51.20% +80.13%
England median hourly rate £46.00 £40.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.33% -12.10% -8.55%

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 259 179 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.07% 25.83% 36.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 97 239
10th Percentile £259 £187 £213
25th Percentile £361 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +4.86% -7.27%
75th Percentile £498 £588 £530
90th Percentile £625 £633 £615
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 21
10th Percentile £17.52 £13.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.28 £13.52 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.95 £18.32 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.33% +18.19% -
75th Percentile £33.54 £39.68 £28.75
90th Percentile £55.42 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%

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 25 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 25 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 35 £450 -20.56% 13
Northamptonshire -10 28 £434 -3.67% 27
Leicestershire 0 19 £450 -10.00% 36
Nottinghamshire 0 16 £483 -3.50% 43
Lincolnshire -10 7 £505 -38.41% 15
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 4 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.94%) Alfresco
2 1 (0.94%) Apache
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Synapse
2 1 (0.94%) CMS
2 1 (0.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) Documentum
2 1 (0.94%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.94%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.72%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.89%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.94%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) AWS
2 32 (30.19%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (15.09%) Entra ID
4 15 (14.15%) GCP
5 12 (11.32%) Power Platform
6 11 (10.38%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (8.49%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.49%) Serverless
8 8 (7.55%) Azure AKS
8 8 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (6.60%) Azure Functions
9 7 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.66%) Power Automate
10 6 (5.66%) PowerApps
11 5 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (4.72%) GitHub
11 5 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.77%) IaaS
12 4 (3.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) DNS
2 3 (2.83%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) VPN
4 1 (0.94%) DHCP
4 1 (0.94%) MQTT
4 1 (0.94%) SMTP
4 1 (0.94%) SSL
4 1 (0.94%) VLAN
4 1 (0.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (6.60%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (6.60%) Power BI
2 6 (5.66%) Data Lake
2 6 (5.66%) Metadata
3 5 (4.72%) Big Data
4 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.89%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.89%) Power Query
5 2 (1.89%) Tableau
6 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.94%) GIS
6 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Git
2 3 (2.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.64%) Finance
3 9 (8.49%) Banking
3 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.60%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.89%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.94%) Electronics
8 1 (0.94%) Local Government
8 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Military
8 1 (0.94%) Publishing
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Developer
2 16 (15.09%) Architect
3 13 (12.26%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Analyst
5 9 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (6.60%) Lead
7 7 (6.60%) Senior
8 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Integration Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Android Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Specialist
10 4 (3.77%) DevOps Specialist
11 3 (2.83%) Consultant
11 3 (2.83%) Head of IT
11 3 (2.83%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) ADO
2 6 (5.66%) REST
3 4 (3.77%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (3.77%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (3.77%) Kafka
3 4 (3.77%) RESTful
4 3 (2.83%) .NET
4 3 (2.83%) LDAP
4 3 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.89%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.89%) CSS
5 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.89%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.89%) HTML
5 2 (1.89%) OAuth
5 2 (1.89%) OpenID
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.89%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.89%) SAML
5 2 (1.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.72%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.77%) Data Fabric
3 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) PKI
6 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.15%) Windows
2 7 (6.60%) Android
3 5 (4.72%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.77%) Linux
4 4 (3.77%) VMS
5 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.89%) Unix
7 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.51%) DevOps
2 27 (25.47%) CI/CD
3 23 (21.70%) Agile
3 23 (21.70%) Analytics
4 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (15.09%) Roadmaps
6 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (13.21%) Enterprise Architecture
8 13 (12.26%) ETL
8 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (11.32%) Scrum
10 11 (10.38%) Business Strategy
11 10 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (9.43%) Data Science
11 10 (9.43%) Identity Management
11 10 (9.43%) Strategic Roadmap
12 9 (8.49%) Incident Response
12 9 (8.49%) Mentoring
13 8 (7.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.42%) SQL
2 19 (17.92%) Python
3 15 (14.15%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.60%) Bash
5 6 (5.66%) C#
6 5 (4.72%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.72%) X++
7 4 (3.77%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.83%) C++
9 2 (1.89%) C
9 2 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.89%) Java
9 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.49%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.60%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.89%) CISA
6 2 (1.89%) CISM
6 2 (1.89%) CISSP
6 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.55%) GDPR
3 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.72%) QA
5 4 (3.77%) ISO 9001
6 3 (2.83%) NIST
6 3 (2.83%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.89%) COBIT
7 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.94%) EMIR
8 1 (0.94%) MiFID
8 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.83%) Docker
4 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (14.15%) Terraform
2 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.72%) SCCM
5 2 (1.89%) Grafana
5 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 1 (0.94%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (41.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.32%) Databricks
3 9 (8.49%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.60%) VMware
5 5 (4.72%) Citrix
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle
7 3 (2.83%) Informatica
7 3 (2.83%) Samsung
7 3 (2.83%) Talend
8 2 (1.89%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.89%) Google
8 2 (1.89%) IBM
8 2 (1.89%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.89%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.89%) Siemens
9 1 (0.94%) Dell
9 1 (0.94%) Genesys
9 1 (0.94%) OpenText
9 1 (0.94%) Red Hat