Azure Contract Job Trends in Eastleigh

Microsoft Azure
Hampshire > Eastleigh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Eastleigh requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 4 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Eastleigh 33.33% 23.08% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 100.00% 33.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile £570 £620 -
Hampshire median daily rate £536 £555 £555
% change year-on-year -3.38% - +0.91%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Eastleigh

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 Eastleigh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Eastleigh 33.33% 69.23% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 1
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £475 £281 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £288 £500
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -42.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £500 -
90th Percentile £570 £530 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.29%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Eastleigh

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Eastleigh

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Eastleigh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Eastleigh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Eastleigh over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Eastleigh

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Eastleigh 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) NAS
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
General
1 6 (85.71%) Legal
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Runbook
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
6 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transition
6 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) vSphere
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
1 4 (57.14%) Zerto
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Rackspace
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle