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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 116 52 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.44% 10.20% 10.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.54% 36.11% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 38 58
10th Percentile £213 £235 £276
25th Percentile £358 £368 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +1.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £543 £533 £625
90th Percentile £603 £583 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £14.08 - -
25th Percentile £14.89 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £16.50 £15.09 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -50.52% +72.12%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £44.25 £38.50
% change year-on-year +29.94% +14.94% -27.84%

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 309 144 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.47% 28.24% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 106 169
10th Percentile £190 £197 £166
25th Percentile £327 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £540 £521 £550
90th Percentile £613 £553 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.48 £14.80 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -13.83% +10.77%
75th Percentile £23.50 £17.19 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.27 £20.68 £31.53
England median hourly rate £40.78 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +27.68% -18.32%

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 31 March 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
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 31 March 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
Derbyshire +2 36 £535 +9.74% 24
Northamptonshire -4 30 £425 -7.10% 29
Nottinghamshire -3 27 £375 -25.00% 37
Leicestershire +3 20 £418 +9.51% 46
Lincolnshire -14 3 £469 +179.85% 23
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 8 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.03%) Confluence
3 3 (2.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.86%) IIS
5 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.86%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (41.38%) Azure DevOps
2 30 (25.86%) AWS
3 18 (15.52%) Entra ID
4 16 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 14 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (11.21%) GCP
7 11 (9.48%) Azure AKS
8 10 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (5.17%) Serverless
10 5 (4.31%) IaaS
10 5 (4.31%) PaaS
11 4 (3.45%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.59%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.59%) GitHub
12 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) VLAN
2 3 (2.59%) DHCP
2 3 (2.59%) DNS
2 3 (2.59%) Firewall
2 3 (2.59%) VPN
3 2 (1.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) BGP
4 1 (0.86%) OSPF
4 1 (0.86%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.21%) Power BI
2 9 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.31%) Big Data
5 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.45%) Metadata
6 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.59%) Power Query
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.72%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.72%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.72%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.72%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Git
2 10 (8.62%) JIRA
3 6 (5.17%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.59%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.86%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.86%) Hudson
6 1 (0.86%) MSI
General
1 50 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.97%) Finance
3 11 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Banking
6 6 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.31%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (4.31%) Local Government
7 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Police
8 4 (3.45%) Law
8 4 (3.45%) Marketing
9 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.72%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.86%) Automotive
11 1 (0.86%) Electronics
11 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) Senior
2 14 (12.07%) Analyst
3 13 (11.21%) Architect
3 13 (11.21%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Developer
4 11 (9.48%) Lead
5 7 (6.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.03%) Desktop Support
5 7 (6.03%) Desktop Support Technician
5 7 (6.03%) Desktop Technician
5 7 (6.03%) Support Technician
6 6 (5.17%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.31%) Help Desk Technician
7 5 (4.31%) ICT Technician
7 5 (4.31%) Senior Support Technician
7 5 (4.31%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.62%) ADO
2 8 (6.90%) .NET
3 6 (5.17%) RESTful
4 5 (4.31%) Kafka
4 5 (4.31%) PySpark
4 5 (4.31%) REST
5 4 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.59%) HTML
6 3 (2.59%) J2EE
6 3 (2.59%) OSGi
6 3 (2.59%) Pandas
6 3 (2.59%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.72%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.72%) CSS
7 2 (1.72%) Node.js
7 2 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.72%) Web Services
7 2 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.90%) Smartphone
3 6 (5.17%) Driving Licence
3 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Replication
7 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.14%) Windows
2 13 (11.21%) Linux
3 8 (6.90%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.03%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.31%) Unix
6 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.72%) VMS
8 1 (0.86%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.86%) DevOps
2 38 (32.76%) CI/CD
3 35 (30.17%) Agile
4 25 (21.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (17.24%) Analytics
8 18 (15.52%) Migration
9 17 (14.66%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (12.93%) ITIL
11 14 (12.07%) Microservices
12 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (10.34%) ETL
14 11 (9.48%) Business Continuity
15 10 (8.62%) Change Management
15 10 (8.62%) Containerisation
15 10 (8.62%) Data Modelling
15 10 (8.62%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 30 (25.86%) SQL
2 27 (23.28%) Python
3 15 (12.93%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.76%) C#
5 7 (6.03%) Java
6 3 (2.59%) Bash
6 3 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) R
7 2 (1.72%) Bicep
7 2 (1.72%) C++
7 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.72%) VBA
8 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.86%) Rust
8 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.86%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.31%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.72%) Degree
7 1 (0.86%) CCNA
7 1 (0.86%) CCNP
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.76%) GDPR
3 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.31%) QA
4 4 (3.45%) SLA
5 3 (2.59%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.59%) PMO
6 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.86%) COBIT
7 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (19.83%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.62%) Docker
3 9 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (17.24%) Terraform
2 18 (15.52%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.76%) SCCM
5 7 (6.03%) Ansible
6 4 (3.45%) Istio
6 4 (3.45%) Puppet
7 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.72%) Grafana
9 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 38 (32.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Databricks
3 12 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.76%) VMware
5 4 (3.45%) Google
5 4 (3.45%) Oracle
6 3 (2.59%) Adobe
6 3 (2.59%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.59%) Informatica
6 3 (2.59%) Talend
7 2 (1.72%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.72%) Citrix
7 2 (1.72%) SAP
8 1 (0.86%) Apple
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco
8 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.86%) Intel
8 1 (0.86%) NetApp
8 1 (0.86%) OpenText
8 1 (0.86%) Sybase