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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 111 93 101
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.82% 12.83% 12.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.87% 46.97% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 57 84
10th Percentile £360 £310 £293
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £502 £588 £530
90th Percentile £608 £622 £596
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Median hourly rate £16.35 £34.16 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -51.20% +80.13%
England median hourly rate £34.24 £40.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year -15.64% -12.10% -16.04%

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 253 198 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.21% 27.31% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 109 236
10th Percentile £283 £248 £213
25th Percentile £363 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -0.66% -7.27%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £530
90th Percentile £625 £620 £613
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 22
10th Percentile £17.52 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £19.28 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £20.95 £29.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +75.76% +6.45%
75th Percentile £21.39 £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%

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 11 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 11 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 -12.62% 26
Northamptonshire -10 34 £430 -3.48% 41
Leicestershire 0 18 £456 +1.39% 37
Nottinghamshire -1 16 £483 -3.50% 65
Lincolnshire -11 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 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.90%) Alfresco
2 1 (0.90%) Apache
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Synapse
2 1 (0.90%) CMS
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) Documentum
2 1 (0.90%) IIS
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.90%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.50%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.80%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.90%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.74%) AWS
2 31 (27.93%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (14.41%) Entra ID
4 15 (13.51%) GCP
5 13 (11.71%) Power Platform
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.11%) Serverless
8 8 (7.21%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.31%) Azure Functions
9 7 (6.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (5.41%) Power Automate
10 6 (5.41%) PowerApps
11 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.60%) GitHub
12 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.70%) PaaS
13 3 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) DNS
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
2 2 (1.80%) DMZ
2 2 (1.80%) Internet
2 2 (1.80%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) DHCP
3 1 (0.90%) MQTT
3 1 (0.90%) SMTP
3 1 (0.90%) SSL
3 1 (0.90%) VLAN
3 1 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (7.21%) Power BI
2 6 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.50%) Big Data
3 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.70%) Metadata
4 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.80%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) Power Query
5 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.80%) Tableau
6 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.90%) GIS
6 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.70%) JIRA
3 2 (1.80%) Gradle
3 2 (1.80%) Maven
4 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Finance
3 12 (10.81%) Banking
4 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.31%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.41%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.90%) Electronics
10 1 (0.90%) Local Government
10 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.90%) Military
10 1 (0.90%) Publishing
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (18.02%) Architect
2 17 (15.32%) Developer
3 13 (11.71%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.81%) Analyst
5 8 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.31%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Integration Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Senior
9 4 (3.60%) Android Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Azure Specialist
9 4 (3.60%) DevOps Specialist
9 4 (3.60%) Lead
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Consultant
10 3 (2.70%) Data Scientist
10 3 (2.70%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) ADO
2 9 (8.11%) REST
3 8 (7.21%) LDAP
4 6 (5.41%) RESTful
5 4 (3.60%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (3.60%) Jetpack Compose
6 3 (2.70%) .NET
6 3 (2.70%) CSS
6 3 (2.70%) FIDO
6 3 (2.70%) HTML
7 2 (1.80%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.80%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.80%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.80%) OAuth
7 2 (1.80%) OpenID
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.80%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.80%) SAML
7 2 (1.80%) Spring
7 2 (1.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.60%) Data Fabric
3 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.90%) PKI
5 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.61%) Windows
2 7 (6.31%) Android
3 5 (4.50%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.60%) VMS
5 3 (2.70%) Linux
5 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.80%) Unix
7 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.74%) DevOps
2 27 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 25 (22.52%) Agile
4 20 (18.02%) Analytics
5 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (15.32%) Roadmaps
6 17 (15.32%) Scrum
7 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
8 13 (11.71%) ETL
8 13 (11.71%) Identity Access Management
8 13 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (10.81%) Microservices
10 11 (9.91%) Business Strategy
10 11 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (9.91%) Identity Management
10 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (9.01%) Strategic Roadmap
12 9 (8.11%) Digital Identity
12 9 (8.11%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.83%) SQL
2 16 (14.41%) Python
3 14 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.31%) Java
5 6 (5.41%) Bash
6 5 (4.50%) C#
6 5 (4.50%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.50%) X++
7 4 (3.60%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.80%) C
9 2 (1.80%) C++
9 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.21%) Degree
5 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.80%) CISA
7 2 (1.80%) CISM
7 2 (1.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (9.01%) GDPR
3 8 (7.21%) QA
4 7 (6.31%) NIST
5 5 (4.50%) NIST 800
6 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.60%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.80%) COBIT
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.90%) EMIR
8 1 (0.90%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.90%) MiFID
8 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (15.32%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (11.71%) Terraform
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.50%) SCCM
5 4 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.80%) Grafana
6 2 (1.80%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (0.90%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 42 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.81%) Databricks
3 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.31%) VMware
5 5 (4.50%) Citrix
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
7 3 (2.70%) IBM
7 3 (2.70%) Samsung
8 2 (1.80%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.80%) Google
8 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.80%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.80%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.80%) Siemens
9 1 (0.90%) Genesys
9 1 (0.90%) OpenText
9 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.90%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.90%) Trayport
9 1 (0.90%) Veeam