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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 107 99 113
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.63% 13.01% 13.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.80% 48.29% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 63 91
10th Percentile £360 £313 £290
25th Percentile £394 £381 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £500 £585 £530
90th Percentile £575 £619 £588
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.65%
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 £37.50 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.14% -24.21% -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 256 205 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.22% 26.94% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 115 240
10th Percentile £314 £219 £213
25th Percentile £368 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -7.88%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £534
90th Percentile £623 £619 £613
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 22
10th Percentile £18.30 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £20.54 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +87.10% -6.68%
75th Percentile - £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 October 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 20 October 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 36 £456 -13.92% 24
Northamptonshire -11 32 £433 -2.70% 21
Nottinghamshire -1 16 £483 -3.50% 57
Leicestershire +2 15 £463 +15.63% 29
Lincolnshire -9 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 1 (0.93%) Alfresco
1 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.93%) CMS
1 1 (0.93%) Confluence
1 1 (0.93%) Documentum
1 1 (0.93%) IIS
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.67%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (2.80%) Teamcenter
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.93%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.32%) AWS
2 29 (27.10%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (14.95%) Entra ID
4 15 (14.02%) GCP
5 14 (13.08%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (8.41%) Serverless
7 8 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.54%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (5.61%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.61%) PowerApps
10 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (3.74%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.80%) SaaS
13 2 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) DNS
1 4 (3.74%) Firewall
2 2 (1.87%) DMZ
2 2 (1.87%) Internet
2 2 (1.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.93%) DHCP
3 1 (0.93%) MQTT
3 1 (0.93%) SMTP
3 1 (0.93%) SSL
3 1 (0.93%) VLAN
3 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) Power BI
2 7 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.87%) Big Data
5 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.87%) Metadata
5 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.87%) Tableau
6 1 (0.93%) GIS
6 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.93%) Power Query
6 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Git
2 4 (3.74%) JIRA
3 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.87%) Gradle
4 2 (1.87%) Maven
4 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
5 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.69%) Finance
3 10 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.35%) Banking
4 8 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Local Government
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Publishing
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (17.76%) Architect
2 18 (16.82%) Developer
3 13 (12.15%) Analyst
4 8 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.61%) Android Developer
5 6 (5.61%) Business Analyst
5 6 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (4.67%) Integration Developer
6 5 (4.67%) Lead
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Specialist
7 4 (3.74%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (2.80%) Head of IT
8 3 (2.80%) Identity Management Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Product Owner
8 3 (2.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) ADO
2 9 (8.41%) LDAP
3 8 (7.48%) REST
3 8 (7.48%) RESTful
4 6 (5.61%) Android Jetpack
4 6 (5.61%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (4.67%) .NET
6 3 (2.80%) CSS
6 3 (2.80%) FIDO
6 3 (2.80%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.80%) HTML
6 3 (2.80%) OAuth
6 3 (2.80%) OpenID
6 3 (2.80%) SAML
6 3 (2.80%) Spring
7 2 (1.87%) JSON
7 2 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.87%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.87%) Web Services
7 2 (1.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.61%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.61%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.67%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.74%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.08%) Windows
2 9 (8.41%) Android
3 5 (4.67%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.93%) Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.45%) DevOps
2 23 (21.50%) Agile
3 21 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 20 (18.69%) Analytics
5 19 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.95%) Roadmaps
6 16 (14.95%) Scrum
7 14 (13.08%) Identity Access Management
8 13 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (12.15%) Enterprise Architecture
8 13 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (11.21%) Microservices
10 11 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (10.28%) ETL
10 11 (10.28%) Identity Management
11 10 (9.35%) Strategic Roadmap
12 9 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (8.41%) Business Strategy
12 9 (8.41%) Digital Identity
12 9 (8.41%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.04%) SQL
2 16 (14.95%) Python
3 13 (12.15%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.41%) Java
5 7 (6.54%) C#
6 6 (5.61%) Bash
6 6 (5.61%) Kotlin
6 6 (5.61%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.67%) X++
8 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.87%) C
9 2 (1.87%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) Degree
4 7 (6.54%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.87%) CISA
7 2 (1.87%) CISM
7 2 (1.87%) CISSP
7 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (9.35%) GDPR
3 7 (6.54%) NIST
3 7 (6.54%) QA
4 5 (4.67%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.80%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.80%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.87%) COBIT
6 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.93%) EMIR
7 1 (0.93%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.93%) MiFID
7 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (15.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.74%) Docker
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.54%) Terraform
3 5 (4.67%) SCCM
4 4 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.80%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (40.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.41%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.48%) Databricks
4 7 (6.54%) VMware
5 5 (4.67%) Citrix
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle
6 4 (3.74%) IBM
7 3 (2.80%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.80%) Samsung
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.87%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.87%) Siemens
9 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.93%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.93%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.93%) Trayport
9 1 (0.93%) Veeam
9 1 (0.93%) Zerto