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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 105 53 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 10.44% 10.41% 10.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.20% 36.55% 35.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 38 59
10th Percentile £213 £235 £280
25th Percentile £360 £368 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £540 £533 £563
90th Percentile £614 £583 £688
England median daily rate £525 £531 £540
% change year-on-year -1.11% -1.74% -4.47%
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 £53.50 £46.12
% change year-on-year +7.48% +16.01% -21.37%

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 307 145 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.52% 28.49% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 102 168
10th Percentile £190 £189 £166
25th Percentile £327 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £540 £510 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £629
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.49 £14.80 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -26.41% +29.71%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.19 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.44 £20.68 £31.53
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

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 20 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 20 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 +4 33 £538 +7.50% 23
Northamptonshire -7 27 £424 -7.38% 29
Nottinghamshire -5 24 £444 -11.25% 34
Leicestershire +4 19 £418 +11.33% 40
Lincolnshire -15 2 £600 +258.21% 22
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 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.76%) Confluence
4 3 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.90%) Apache
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.95%) IIS
6 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.95%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
2 29 (27.62%) AWS
3 18 (17.14%) Entra ID
4 15 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 14 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (12.38%) GCP
7 10 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (8.57%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (5.71%) Serverless
11 5 (4.76%) IaaS
11 5 (4.76%) PaaS
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.81%) GitHub
12 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.86%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) VLAN
2 3 (2.86%) DHCP
2 3 (2.86%) DNS
2 3 (2.86%) Firewall
3 2 (1.90%) Network Security
3 2 (1.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.43%) Power BI
2 9 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.62%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.76%) Big Data
4 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.81%) Metadata
5 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.90%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.90%) Power Query
7 2 (1.90%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Git
2 8 (7.62%) JIRA
3 4 (3.81%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.95%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.95%) Hudson
5 1 (0.95%) MSI
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.67%) Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.76%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (4.76%) Local Government
6 5 (4.76%) Police
7 4 (3.81%) Marketing
7 4 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.90%) Law
10 1 (0.95%) Automotive
10 1 (0.95%) Electronics
10 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (14.29%) Senior
2 13 (12.38%) Architect
3 11 (10.48%) Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (10.48%) Lead
4 9 (8.57%) Developer
4 9 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Desktop Support
5 7 (6.67%) Desktop Support Technician
5 7 (6.67%) Desktop Technician
5 7 (6.67%) Support Technician
6 6 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.76%) Help Desk Technician
7 5 (4.76%) ICT Technician
7 5 (4.76%) Senior Support Technician
7 5 (4.76%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) ADO
2 6 (5.71%) .NET
3 5 (4.76%) PySpark
3 5 (4.76%) REST
4 4 (3.81%) Kafka
4 4 (3.81%) RESTful
5 3 (2.86%) HTML
5 3 (2.86%) J2EE
5 3 (2.86%) OSGi
5 3 (2.86%) Pandas
5 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.86%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.86%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.90%) CSS
6 2 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.90%) Node.js
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.90%) Web Services
6 2 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Smartphone
2 7 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.95%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.95%) Replication
8 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.81%) Windows
2 11 (10.48%) Linux
3 8 (7.62%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.86%) Unix
7 2 (1.90%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.90%) VMS
8 1 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (48.57%) DevOps
2 34 (32.38%) CI/CD
3 29 (27.62%) Agile
4 24 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (20.00%) Analytics
7 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (15.24%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (15.24%) Migration
10 15 (14.29%) ITIL
11 12 (11.43%) Business Continuity
11 12 (11.43%) ETL
11 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (9.52%) Change Management
13 10 (9.52%) Data Modelling
14 9 (8.57%) BCP
14 9 (8.57%) Data Migration
14 9 (8.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.62%) SQL
2 25 (23.81%) Python
3 16 (15.24%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.71%) C#
5 5 (4.76%) Java
6 4 (3.81%) Bash
6 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.86%) R
8 2 (1.90%) Bicep
8 2 (1.90%) C++
8 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.95%) VBA
9 1 (0.95%) X++
Qualifications
1 17 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.76%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.90%) Degree
7 1 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.57%) GDPR
3 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.76%) QA
4 4 (3.81%) SLA
5 3 (2.86%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.90%) PMO
7 1 (0.95%) COBIT
7 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.57%) Docker
2 9 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.62%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (20.00%) Terraform
2 14 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.57%) SCCM
4 5 (4.76%) Ansible
5 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.90%) Grafana
6 2 (1.90%) Istio
6 2 (1.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (35.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) Databricks
3 11 (10.48%) ServiceNow
4 9 (8.57%) VMware
5 5 (4.76%) Oracle
6 4 (3.81%) Google
7 3 (2.86%) Adobe
7 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.86%) Informatica
7 3 (2.86%) Talend
8 2 (1.90%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.90%) Citrix
8 2 (1.90%) SAP
9 1 (0.95%) Apple
9 1 (0.95%) Ariba
9 1 (0.95%) F5
9 1 (0.95%) Intel
9 1 (0.95%) NetApp
9 1 (0.95%) OpenText
9 1 (0.95%) Sybase