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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 119 52 77
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.63% 10.28% 10.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.26% 36.88% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 37 56
10th Percentile £213 £269 £269
25th Percentile £360 £375 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £543 £534 £628
90th Percentile £613 £583 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -4.09%
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 £36.75
% change year-on-year +7.48% +45.58% -30.56%

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 311 141 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.40% 27.87% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 104 164
10th Percentile £190 £214 £166
25th Percentile £333 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £540 £525 £538
90th Percentile £600 £554 £680
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 £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +1 38 £535 +7.00% 24
Northamptonshire -2 30 £425 -7.10% 29
Nottinghamshire -3 27 £375 -25.00% 37
Leicestershire +4 19 £434 +11.94% 46
Lincolnshire -13 3 £435 +141.67% 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 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.84%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.66%) Azure DevOps
2 31 (26.05%) AWS
3 19 (15.97%) Entra ID
4 18 (15.13%) Power Platform
5 14 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (10.92%) GCP
7 12 (10.08%) Azure AKS
8 10 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.20%) IaaS
9 5 (4.20%) PaaS
9 5 (4.20%) Serverless
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.52%) GitHub
10 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) VLAN
2 4 (3.36%) Firewall
2 4 (3.36%) VPN
3 3 (2.52%) DHCP
3 3 (2.52%) DNS
3 3 (2.52%) Network Security
4 2 (1.68%) BGP
4 2 (1.68%) OSPF
4 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.68%) WAN
5 1 (0.84%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) Power BI
2 9 (7.56%) Data Lake
2 9 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.20%) Big Data
5 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.36%) Metadata
6 4 (3.36%) Power Query
6 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.68%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.68%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.68%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Git
2 10 (8.40%) JIRA
3 6 (5.04%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.36%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.52%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.84%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.84%) Hudson
6 1 (0.84%) MSI
General
1 51 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.81%) Finance
3 10 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.88%) Banking
6 5 (4.20%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (4.20%) Local Government
6 5 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.20%) Police
7 4 (3.36%) Law
8 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Marketing
9 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Automotive
10 1 (0.84%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (14.29%) Senior
2 15 (12.61%) Analyst
3 14 (11.76%) Architect
4 13 (10.92%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.24%) Lead
6 10 (8.40%) Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Desktop Support
7 7 (5.88%) Desktop Support Technician
7 7 (5.88%) Desktop Technician
7 7 (5.88%) Support Technician
8 6 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.20%) Help Desk Technician
9 5 (4.20%) Senior Desktop Support
9 5 (4.20%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.72%) .NET
1 8 (6.72%) ADO
2 6 (5.04%) RESTful
3 5 (4.20%) Kafka
3 5 (4.20%) PySpark
3 5 (4.20%) REST
4 4 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.52%) HTML
5 3 (2.52%) J2EE
5 3 (2.52%) OSGi
5 3 (2.52%) Pandas
5 3 (2.52%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.52%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.68%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.68%) CSS
6 2 (1.68%) Node.js
6 2 (1.68%) Web Services
6 2 (1.68%) YAML
7 1 (0.84%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.72%) Smartphone
3 7 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.84%) IVR
8 1 (0.84%) Replication
8 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.53%) Windows
2 13 (10.92%) Linux
3 8 (6.72%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.20%) Unix
6 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.68%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.68%) VMS
8 1 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.74%) DevOps
2 40 (33.61%) CI/CD
3 36 (30.25%) Agile
4 26 (21.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (17.65%) Analytics
8 19 (15.97%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (15.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (15.97%) Migration
9 15 (12.61%) ITIL
10 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (11.76%) Microservices
11 13 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (10.08%) Data Modelling
12 12 (10.08%) ETL
13 11 (9.24%) Business Continuity
13 11 (9.24%) Change Management
13 11 (9.24%) Data Protection
14 10 (8.40%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.73%) SQL
2 28 (23.53%) Python
3 16 (13.45%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.56%) C#
5 7 (5.88%) Java
6 3 (2.52%) Bash
6 3 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.52%) R
7 2 (1.68%) Bicep
7 2 (1.68%) C++
7 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.68%) VBA
8 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.84%) Rust
8 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.20%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) CCNA
6 2 (1.68%) CCNP
6 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.68%) Degree
7 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.56%) GDPR
3 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.20%) QA
4 4 (3.36%) SLA
5 3 (2.52%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.52%) PMO
6 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.84%) COBIT
7 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (20.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.40%) Docker
3 9 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (18.49%) Terraform
2 18 (15.13%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.56%) SCCM
5 7 (5.88%) Ansible
6 4 (3.36%) Istio
6 4 (3.36%) Puppet
7 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.68%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (33.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.45%) Databricks
3 11 (9.24%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.56%) VMware
5 4 (3.36%) Google
6 3 (2.52%) Adobe
6 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.52%) Informatica
6 3 (2.52%) Oracle
6 3 (2.52%) Talend
7 2 (1.68%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.68%) Cisco
7 2 (1.68%) Citrix
7 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.84%) Apple
8 1 (0.84%) Ariba
8 1 (0.84%) Intel
8 1 (0.84%) NetApp
8 1 (0.84%) Sybase