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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 129 62 84
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.48% 10.15% 10.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.51% 33.51% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 48 57
10th Percentile £213 £336 £309
25th Percentile £361 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +1.65% +2.25%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £625
90th Percentile £650 £561 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £13.81 - -
25th Percentile £14.22 - -
Median hourly rate £15.49 £15.09 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -
75th Percentile £16.42 - -
90th Percentile £16.62 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +53.33% +7.14% -44.44%

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 335 185 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.80% 30.28% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 144 145
10th Percentile £190 £250 £163
25th Percentile £359 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.03%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £515
90th Percentile £650 £549 £645
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 8 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.69 -
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.65 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £15.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +39.67% -23.43%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £26.75
90th Percentile £23.82 £21.87 £27.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.94%

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 May 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 May 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
Northamptonshire +8 38 £500 +16.55% 9
Nottinghamshire +2 33 £400 -20.00% 28
Derbyshire +2 31 £535 +15.68% 18
Leicestershire -7 18 £450 -2.70% 21
Lincolnshire -6 8 £470 +161.11% 7
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 11 (8.53%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.65%) Confluence
3 5 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
2 27 (20.93%) AWS
3 26 (20.16%) Power Platform
4 23 (17.83%) Entra ID
5 17 (13.18%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (7.75%) Azure AKS
7 10 (7.75%) GCP
8 8 (6.20%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.65%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.88%) Serverless
11 4 (3.10%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.33%) IaaS
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.33%) PaaS
12 3 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) VLAN
2 4 (3.10%) Firewall
2 4 (3.10%) Network Security
2 4 (3.10%) VPN
3 3 (2.33%) SMS
4 2 (1.55%) BGP
4 2 (1.55%) DHCP
4 2 (1.55%) DNS
4 2 (1.55%) OSPF
4 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.55%) WAN
5 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.28%) Power BI
2 16 (12.40%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (8.53%) Data Lake
5 10 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.10%) Big Data
7 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.33%) Power Query
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.55%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.78%) HBase
10 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Git
1 9 (6.98%) JIRA
2 3 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.55%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.55%) GitLab
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.78%) Hudson
4 1 (0.78%) MSI
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Finance
3 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.53%) Banking
4 8 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Law
6 6 (4.65%) Local Government
6 6 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.88%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (3.88%) Police
8 4 (3.10%) Marketing
8 4 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.78%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (16.28%) Senior
2 18 (13.95%) Architect
2 18 (13.95%) Developer
3 16 (12.40%) Analyst
4 11 (8.53%) Lead
5 10 (7.75%) .NET Developer
5 10 (7.75%) Software Developer
6 9 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Desktop Support
7 8 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.65%) .NET Software Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Consultant
9 6 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.65%) Desktop Support Technician
9 6 (4.65%) Desktop Technician
9 6 (4.65%) Senior Architect
9 6 (4.65%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) .NET
2 8 (6.20%) RESTful
3 6 (4.65%) Kafka
3 6 (4.65%) PySpark
3 6 (4.65%) REST
4 4 (3.10%) Node.js
4 4 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.33%) ADO
5 3 (2.33%) J2EE
5 3 (2.33%) Middleware
5 3 (2.33%) OSGi
6 2 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.55%) HTML
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.55%) Pandas
6 2 (1.55%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.55%) SOAP
6 2 (1.55%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.55%) Web Services
6 2 (1.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Smartphone
2 7 (5.43%) Driving Licence
2 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.33%) IVR
4 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Life Science
6 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (24.03%) Windows
2 12 (9.30%) Linux
3 11 (8.53%) Windows 10
4 8 (6.20%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.33%) Unix
7 2 (1.55%) CentOS
7 2 (1.55%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.98%) DevOps
2 36 (27.91%) CI/CD
3 33 (25.58%) Agile
4 24 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.73%) Analytics
7 19 (14.73%) Migration
8 18 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (13.95%) Microservices
9 17 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (12.40%) Data Modelling
11 15 (11.63%) Data Protection
12 13 (10.08%) ITIL
13 12 (9.30%) Business Continuity
13 12 (9.30%) CRM
13 12 (9.30%) ETL
14 11 (8.53%) Change Management
14 11 (8.53%) Customer Service
15 10 (7.75%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (27.13%) SQL
2 27 (20.93%) Python
3 16 (12.40%) C#
4 13 (10.08%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.65%) Java
5 6 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.33%) Rust
7 2 (1.55%) Bash
7 2 (1.55%) Bicep
7 2 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.55%) R
7 2 (1.55%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.55%) VBA
8 1 (0.78%) C++
8 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (7.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.43%) Degree
2 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.88%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) CCNA
6 2 (1.55%) CCNP
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) Data Quality
1 9 (6.98%) GDPR
2 4 (3.10%) PMO
3 3 (2.33%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) COBIT
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (21.71%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.53%) Docker
3 8 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (13.95%) Terraform
2 17 (13.18%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.53%) SCCM
4 7 (5.43%) Ansible
5 2 (1.55%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.55%) Istio
5 2 (1.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 47 (36.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.18%) Databricks
3 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.98%) VMware
4 5 (3.88%) Oracle
5 3 (2.33%) Adobe
5 3 (2.33%) Google
5 3 (2.33%) SAP
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco
6 2 (1.55%) Citrix
6 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.55%) NetApp
7 1 (0.78%) Apple
7 1 (0.78%) Ariba
7 1 (0.78%) Intel
7 1 (0.78%) OpenText
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.78%) Sybase