Azure Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 62 84 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.06% 10.40% 16.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.51% 39.25% 55.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 57 131
10th Percentile £336 £309 £290
25th Percentile £380 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £445
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +2.25% -6.32%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £544
90th Percentile £561 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £17.34
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.09 - £26.48
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £54.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -44.44% +36.22%

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 185 214 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.03% 26.49% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 145 222
10th Percentile £250 £163 £205
25th Percentile £363 £306 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £448
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.03% -0.56%
75th Percentile £500 £515 £550
90th Percentile £549 £645 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 11
10th Percentile £14.69 - £13.16
25th Percentile £17.65 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £15.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% -23.43% +1.91%
75th Percentile - £26.75 £26.48
90th Percentile £21.87 £27.50 £30.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

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 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East Midlands

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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 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 -2 20 £429 -3.60% 22
Leicestershire +5 16 £463 -8.10% 39
Derbyshire +12 14 £463 +8.82% 28
Nottinghamshire -10 9 £500 -9.09% 53
Lincolnshire -2 2 £180 -72.83% 27
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 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.23%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (38.71%) AWS
3 11 (17.74%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.45%) SaaS
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.23%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.61%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.61%) IaaS
8 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.61%) PaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
2 2 (3.23%) DMZ
2 2 (3.23%) HTTP
2 2 (3.23%) Internet
3 1 (1.61%) DHCP
3 1 (1.61%) DNS
3 1 (1.61%) MQTT
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.45%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.45%) Power BI
3 3 (4.84%) Big Data
3 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.23%) Tableau
5 1 (1.61%) GIS
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.61%) Power Query
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.84%) Chocolatey
3 3 (4.84%) Maven
3 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.23%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.23%) Gradle
4 2 (3.23%) Introscope
4 2 (3.23%) LoadRunner
4 2 (3.23%) NetBeans
4 2 (3.23%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.61%) JIRA
5 1 (1.61%) Selenium
5 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.61%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.84%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.61%) Games
7 1 (1.61%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Architect
2 10 (16.13%) Developer
3 8 (12.90%) Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Android Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) DevOps Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.23%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) .NET
1 8 (12.90%) RESTful
2 7 (11.29%) Android Jetpack
2 7 (11.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 6 (9.68%) LDAP
4 4 (6.45%) REST
4 4 (6.45%) Web Services
5 3 (4.84%) HTML
5 3 (4.84%) OAuth
5 3 (4.84%) SAML
6 2 (3.23%) FIDO
6 2 (3.23%) J2EE
6 2 (3.23%) OpenID
6 2 (3.23%) POSIX
7 1 (1.61%) ADO
7 1 (1.61%) CSS
7 1 (1.61%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.61%) Middleware
7 1 (1.61%) SOAP
7 1 (1.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) IoT
4 1 (1.61%) iPhone
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Android
2 7 (11.29%) Windows
3 6 (9.68%) Linux
4 3 (4.84%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.23%) AIX
5 2 (3.23%) Unix
6 1 (1.61%) CentOS
6 1 (1.61%) Rocky
6 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) DevOps
2 21 (33.87%) Agile
3 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.19%) Scrum
6 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
7 11 (17.74%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (12.90%) ETL
8 8 (12.90%) Unit Testing
9 7 (11.29%) Android Development
9 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (11.29%) Digital Identity
9 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
9 7 (11.29%) Microservices
10 6 (9.68%) ITIL
10 6 (9.68%) TDD
11 5 (8.06%) Biometrics
11 5 (8.06%) Migration
11 5 (8.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) SQL
2 15 (24.19%) Python
3 10 (16.13%) Java
3 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 9 (14.52%) C#
5 7 (11.29%) Kotlin
6 4 (6.45%) C
7 3 (4.84%) Bash
7 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.23%) C++
8 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.61%) Bicep
9 1 (1.61%) R
9 1 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 5 (8.06%) GDPR
3 4 (6.45%) NIST
4 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (3.23%) MISRA
5 2 (3.23%) MISRA C
5 2 (3.23%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.61%) IEC 61508
6 1 (1.61%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) Docker
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) Firmware
4 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Terraform
2 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.68%) Ansible
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.84%) AirWatch
4 3 (4.84%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (4.84%) SCCM
5 2 (3.23%) CA Wily
5 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.61%) Podman
6 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) Databricks
3 4 (6.45%) Google
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
5 2 (3.23%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 2 (3.23%) Perforce
5 2 (3.23%) QNX
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Citrix
6 1 (1.61%) Cognos
6 1 (1.61%) HP
6 1 (1.61%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.61%) MobileIron
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) Trapeze