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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 104 65 94
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.76% 11.00% 12.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.81% 42.48% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 39 75
10th Percentile £322 £290 £294
25th Percentile £396 £348 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -19.05%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £525
90th Percentile £613 £613 £565
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £49.25 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.71% -24.21% -12.04%

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 30.32% 25.89% 37.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 89 222
10th Percentile £205 £187 £228
25th Percentile £360 £356 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -0.66% -9.40%
75th Percentile £504 £545 £530
90th Percentile £613 £613 £600
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 16
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.49 £11.39
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £12.94
Median hourly rate £20.50 £29.00 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +64.73% +13.58%
75th Percentile £24.56 £43.51 £47.13
90th Percentile £43.37 £50.40 £91.25
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.32% +8.02%

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 22 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 22 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 +2 36 £450 -5.26% 11
Northamptonshire -6 25 £437 +22.75% 18
Nottinghamshire 0 19 £463 -11.48% 38
Leicestershire -2 17 £430 -14.00% 31
Lincolnshire -9 6 £528 +240.32% 11
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 (5.77%) Apache Spark
1 6 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.96%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Documentum
3 1 (0.96%) IIS
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.96%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (2.88%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.92%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) AWS
2 34 (32.69%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (21.15%) Entra ID
4 17 (16.35%) GCP
5 15 (14.42%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (9.62%) Azure AKS
6 10 (9.62%) Power Platform
7 8 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (6.73%) Serverless
9 6 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (4.81%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.81%) GitHub
10 5 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.85%) IaaS
11 4 (3.85%) PaaS
11 4 (3.85%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.85%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) DNS
2 2 (1.92%) DHCP
2 2 (1.92%) Firewall
2 2 (1.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.96%) SMTP
3 1 (0.96%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (6.73%) Power BI
2 6 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.77%) Big Data
3 5 (4.81%) Metadata
4 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.92%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.92%) Power Query
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Git
2 4 (3.85%) JIRA
3 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Finance
3 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.73%) Aerospace
4 7 (6.73%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Banking
5 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.88%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.96%) Automotive
9 1 (0.96%) Electronics
9 1 (0.96%) Law
9 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Military
9 1 (0.96%) Publishing
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (13.46%) Architect
2 13 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (12.50%) Developer
3 11 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (10.58%) Senior
4 8 (7.69%) Lead
5 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Analyst
6 6 (5.77%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.81%) Desktop Support
7 5 (4.81%) Desktop Support Technician
7 5 (4.81%) Desktop Technician
7 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.81%) Support Technician
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Specialist
8 4 (3.85%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (3.85%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.38%) ADO
2 5 (4.81%) REST
3 3 (2.88%) .NET
3 3 (2.88%) Android Jetpack
3 3 (2.88%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (2.88%) Kafka
3 3 (2.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.88%) Pandas
3 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.88%) RESTful
3 3 (2.88%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.88%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.92%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.92%) CSS
4 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.92%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.92%) Flask
4 2 (1.92%) HTML
4 2 (1.92%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
1 7 (6.73%) Security Posture
2 6 (5.77%) Smartphone
3 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.88%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.12%) Windows
2 7 (6.73%) Mac OS
2 7 (6.73%) Windows 10
3 6 (5.77%) Android
3 6 (5.77%) Linux
4 5 (4.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.88%) Unix
5 3 (2.88%) VMS
5 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (43.27%) DevOps
2 28 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 23 (22.12%) Analytics
4 22 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (19.23%) Agile
7 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (14.42%) Enterprise Architecture
9 13 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.58%) Business Strategy
11 11 (10.58%) Data Science
11 11 (10.58%) Incident Response
11 11 (10.58%) Migration
11 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (8.65%) ETL
13 9 (8.65%) Mentoring
13 9 (8.65%) Scrum
13 9 (8.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.04%) SQL
2 20 (19.23%) Python
3 17 (16.35%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.65%) Bash
5 6 (5.77%) C#
6 4 (3.85%) C++
7 3 (2.88%) Java
7 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.88%) R
7 3 (2.88%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.88%) X++
8 2 (1.92%) C
8 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) Degree
4 7 (6.73%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.92%) CISA
6 2 (1.92%) CISM
6 2 (1.92%) CISSP
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (10.58%) GDPR
3 6 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.88%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.88%) QA
4 3 (2.88%) SLA
5 2 (1.92%) COBIT
5 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.92%) NIST
5 2 (1.92%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (18.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.81%) Docker
4 2 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (13.46%) Terraform
3 12 (11.54%) SCCM
4 9 (8.65%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.92%) Ansible
6 2 (1.92%) Grafana
6 2 (1.92%) Istio
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
7 1 (0.96%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.96%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 43 (41.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.54%) Databricks
3 11 (10.58%) ServiceNow
4 9 (8.65%) VMware
5 7 (6.73%) Citrix
6 5 (4.81%) Oracle
7 4 (3.85%) Google
8 3 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.88%) Informatica
8 3 (2.88%) Samsung
8 3 (2.88%) Talend
9 2 (1.92%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.92%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.92%) Siemens
10 1 (0.96%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.96%) F5
10 1 (0.96%) IBM
10 1 (0.96%) OpenText
10 1 (0.96%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.96%) SAP