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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 91 97 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.68% 12.39% 14.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.81% 46.63% 40.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 61 99
10th Percentile £363 £310 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £494 £611 £530
90th Percentile £559 £645 £655
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £20.84 £38.00
25th Percentile - £24.87 £50.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £34.16 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -51.20% +47.37%
75th Percentile - £45.87 -
90th Percentile - £51.35 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -11.69% -16.63% +4.95%

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 223 208 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.63% 26.56% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 119 237
10th Percentile £333 £187 £213
25th Percentile £373 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £500 £599 £530
90th Percentile £568 £654 £630
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.76 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.63 £13.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +11.03% -20.96%
75th Percentile - £39.68 £40.00
90th Percentile - £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Northamptonshire -14 30 £439 -1.28% 44
Derbyshire +2 26 £431 -13.75% 54
Leicestershire +5 17 £463 +15.63% 45
Nottinghamshire 0 14 £483 -12.27% 56
Lincolnshire -2 4 £421 -39.82% 24
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.10%) CMS
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) Documentum
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.20%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.20%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.10%) Endur
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.96%) AWS
2 26 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (18.68%) GCP
4 15 (16.48%) Entra ID
5 10 (10.99%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.49%) Serverless
8 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.30%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.30%) SaaS
10 2 (2.20%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Firewall
2 3 (3.30%) DNS
3 2 (2.20%) DMZ
3 2 (2.20%) Internet
3 2 (2.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.10%) MQTT
4 1 (1.10%) SMTP
4 1 (1.10%) SSL
4 1 (1.10%) VLAN
4 1 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (7.69%) Power BI
2 3 (3.30%) Big Data
2 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.30%) Tableau
3 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.20%) Metadata
3 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.20%) Power Query
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.10%) GIS
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.40%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) Gradle
3 2 (2.20%) Maven
3 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.10%) Selenium
4 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Finance
3 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Banking
4 7 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.10%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Local Government
8 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Architect
1 16 (17.58%) Developer
2 10 (10.99%) Analyst
3 8 (8.79%) Android Developer
4 7 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Architect
5 6 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Lead
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Head of IT
8 3 (3.30%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Identity Management Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.30%) Programme Manager
9 2 (2.20%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) RESTful
2 9 (9.89%) LDAP
3 8 (8.79%) ADO
3 8 (8.79%) Android Jetpack
3 8 (8.79%) Jetpack Compose
4 6 (6.59%) REST
5 4 (4.40%) .NET
6 3 (3.30%) FIDO
6 3 (3.30%) Hibernate
6 3 (3.30%) OAuth
6 3 (3.30%) OpenID
6 3 (3.30%) SAML
6 3 (3.30%) Spring
7 2 (2.20%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.20%) CSS
7 2 (2.20%) HTML
7 2 (2.20%) JSON
7 2 (2.20%) Web Services
7 2 (2.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.59%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Windows
2 11 (12.09%) Android
3 5 (5.49%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.20%) Linux
4 2 (2.20%) VMS
5 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) DevOps
2 22 (24.18%) Agile
2 22 (24.18%) CI/CD
3 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (18.68%) Scrum
5 16 (17.58%) Roadmaps
6 14 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
7 13 (14.29%) Analytics
8 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (13.19%) ETL
8 12 (13.19%) Microservices
9 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.09%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
10 10 (10.99%) Identity Management
10 10 (10.99%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (10.99%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.89%) Digital Identity
11 9 (9.89%) Incident Response
11 9 (9.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) SQL
2 16 (17.58%) Python
3 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.89%) Java
5 8 (8.79%) Kotlin
6 7 (7.69%) Bash
7 5 (5.49%) C#
8 4 (4.40%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.20%) X++
11 1 (1.10%) Bicep
11 1 (1.10%) C
11 1 (1.10%) C++
11 1 (1.10%) R
11 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.59%) Degree
4 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) CISA
6 1 (1.10%) CISM
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
6 1 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (10.99%) GDPR
3 7 (7.69%) QA
4 6 (6.59%) NIST
5 4 (4.40%) NIST 800
6 3 (3.30%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.10%) COBIT
8 1 (1.10%) EMIR
8 1 (1.10%) ISO 19650
8 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
8 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (16.48%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) Docker
4 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (8.79%) Terraform
3 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.49%) SCCM
4 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.30%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 1 (1.10%) Podman
6 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.10%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) VMware
3 6 (6.59%) Databricks
4 5 (5.49%) Citrix
4 5 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.40%) IBM
6 3 (3.30%) Google
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle
6 3 (3.30%) Ping Identity
6 3 (3.30%) Samsung
7 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.10%) Dell
8 1 (1.10%) MobileIron
8 1 (1.10%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.10%) Trapeze
8 1 (1.10%) Trayport
8 1 (1.10%) Veeam
8 1 (1.10%) Zerto