Azure Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 146 114 127
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.14% 10.08% 7.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.48% 42.38% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 58 81
10th Percentile £220 £220 £250
25th Percentile £400 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -9.57% -14.55%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £679 £613
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £28.87 £37.25 £56.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £48.13 £63.88
Median hourly rate £62.66 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85.06 £74.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £97.32 £77.75 -
England median hourly rate £49.25 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.71% -24.21% -12.04%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 352 269 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.03% 23.78% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 157 222
10th Percentile £213 £213 £181
25th Percentile £352 £306 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £581 £550
90th Percentile £704 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 30
10th Percentile £6.00 £20.29 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.50 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.45% +12.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £49.13 £55.00 £49.06
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.32% +8.02%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Cambridgeshire +5 48 £475 -5.00% 107
Hertfordshire -5 48 £538 +2.38% 182
Bedfordshire +13 29 £550 +69.23% 89
Suffolk -6 13 £223 +1.14% 51
Essex -7 7 £425 +54.55% 139
Norfolk -20 2 £500 +69.49% 51
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (8.22%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.42%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.05%) Confluence
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Weka
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (7.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.37%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.37%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.68%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.62%) AWS
2 35 (23.97%) GCP
3 29 (19.86%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (15.75%) Power Platform
5 22 (15.07%) PaaS
6 17 (11.64%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (10.96%) Serverless
8 15 (10.27%) GitHub
9 13 (8.90%) Azure AKS
9 13 (8.90%) Azure Functions
9 13 (8.90%) Entra ID
9 13 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (6.85%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (6.16%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (4.79%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (4.11%) Azure AI
13 6 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.11%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.85%) Firewall
2 9 (6.16%) TCP/IP
2 9 (6.16%) VPN
3 7 (4.79%) DNS
4 6 (4.11%) DHCP
5 5 (3.42%) LAN
5 5 (3.42%) WAN
6 3 (2.05%) Network Security
7 2 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.37%) SAN
7 2 (1.37%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.68%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.68%) Internet
8 1 (0.68%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.68%) Modbus
8 1 (0.68%) MQTT
8 1 (0.68%) NAS
8 1 (0.68%) VLAN
8 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.70%) Power BI
2 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.05%) Big Data
5 3 (2.05%) Tableau
6 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.37%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.68%) GIS
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
7 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.79%) JIRA
2 5 (3.42%) GitLab
2 5 (3.42%) Selenium
3 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.05%) JMeter
5 2 (1.37%) Git
5 2 (1.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) Hudson
6 1 (0.68%) Locust
6 1 (0.68%) Newman
6 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.68%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.68%) TestRail
6 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 49 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.33%) Finance
3 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.42%) Aviation
7 5 (3.42%) Law
8 4 (2.74%) Local Government
8 4 (2.74%) Retail
8 4 (2.74%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.05%) Banking
9 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Agrochemical
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (15.75%) Developer
2 19 (13.01%) Senior
3 16 (10.96%) Architect
4 14 (9.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 12 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) .NET Developer
6 11 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) Support Engineer
7 10 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.85%) Lead
8 9 (6.16%) Desktop Support
8 9 (6.16%) Security Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.48%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.79%) Analyst
11 6 (4.11%) Consultant
11 6 (4.11%) IT Support
12 5 (3.42%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.55%) .NET
2 23 (15.75%) PyTorch
2 23 (15.75%) TensorFlow
3 14 (9.59%) REST
3 14 (9.59%) RESTful
3 14 (9.59%) scikit-learn
4 10 (6.85%) Semantic Kernel
5 8 (5.48%) OpenID
5 8 (5.48%) React
5 8 (5.48%) SAML
6 7 (4.79%) .NET Core
6 7 (4.79%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.74%) HTML
7 4 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (2.05%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.05%) JSON
8 3 (2.05%) Pandas
8 3 (2.05%) pytest
8 3 (2.05%) SOAP
9 2 (1.37%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.90%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.11%) Private Cloud
3 6 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.42%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.42%) Grid Computing
5 4 (2.74%) iPad
5 4 (2.74%) iPhone
5 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.05%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.37%) IoT
7 2 (1.37%) Life Science
7 2 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.49%) Windows
2 15 (10.27%) Windows 10
3 14 (9.59%) Linux
4 9 (6.16%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.37%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.37%) VMS
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.41%) DevOps
2 45 (30.82%) Agile
3 41 (28.08%) CI/CD
4 40 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (25.34%) AI
6 32 (21.92%) Machine Learning
7 24 (16.44%) LLM
7 24 (16.44%) Test Automation
8 23 (15.75%) Analytics
8 23 (15.75%) Data Science
9 22 (15.07%) Prompt Engineering
9 22 (15.07%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 19 (13.01%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (11.64%) Customer Service
11 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (11.64%) ITIL
12 16 (10.96%) Migration
13 15 (10.27%) Software Engineering
14 14 (9.59%) Data Privacy
14 14 (9.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.93%) Python
2 21 (14.38%) SQL
3 15 (10.27%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.48%) Bash
5 7 (4.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.42%) C#
7 4 (2.74%) Java
7 4 (2.74%) R
8 3 (2.05%) Bicep
9 2 (1.37%) C++
9 2 (1.37%) Perl
9 2 (1.37%) Ruby
10 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (17.81%) Degree
2 16 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.53%) MCP
5 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.05%) CISSP
7 3 (2.05%) PhD
8 2 (1.37%) ACCA
8 2 (1.37%) CCIE
8 2 (1.37%) CCIE Security
8 2 (1.37%) CCNP
8 2 (1.37%) CIMA
8 2 (1.37%) GIAC
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.07%) NIST
2 16 (10.96%) QA
3 15 (10.27%) EU AI Act
4 9 (6.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.74%) SLA
6 3 (2.05%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.37%) GDPR
7 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.68%) GAMP
8 1 (0.68%) GRC
8 1 (0.68%) GxP
8 1 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.68%) IFRS
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 22 (15.07%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.33%) Docker
3 6 (4.11%) Lustre
3 6 (4.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 5 (3.42%) GPFS
5 3 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.79%) Terraform
4 3 (2.05%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) SCCM
5 2 (1.37%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.68%) Consul
6 1 (0.68%) Packer
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 80 (54.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.96%) Foundry
3 12 (8.22%) Google
4 8 (5.48%) Oracle
5 7 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.79%) SAP
5 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.11%) OpenAI
6 6 (4.11%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.11%) Splunk
6 6 (4.11%) VMware
7 4 (2.74%) Databricks
7 4 (2.74%) Starlink
8 3 (2.05%) Citrix
8 3 (2.05%) McAfee
8 3 (2.05%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.37%) Dell
9 2 (1.37%) Genesys
9 2 (1.37%) HP
9 2 (1.37%) Red Hat