Azure Cosmos DB Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 345 398
Rank change year-on-year -98 +53 +94
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 94 151 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 1.43% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 94 99
10th Percentile £350 £441 £408
25th Percentile £461 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +3.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £675
90th Percentile £696 £696 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £594 £575
% change year-on-year -15.82% +3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Cosmos DB 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,009 10,593 12,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.68% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,248 7,079 9,495
10th Percentile £305 £313 £286
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 248
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%
75th Percentile £55.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £68.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Cosmos DB job vacancy trend in England

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in England

Azure Cosmos DB
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +5 72 £500 -18.37% 17
Midlands -32 8 £500 - 1
West Midlands -27 6 £500 -
North of England -49 6 £550 +22.22% 14
Yorkshire -48 5 £563 +14.80% 3
East of England - 5 - - 1
North West -24 3 £500 +11.11% 7
South West - 2 £680 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Azure Cosmos DB
UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Aladdin
1 4 (4.26%) Fidessa
1 4 (4.26%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (46.81%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (37.23%) Azure AKS
4 34 (36.17%) Serverless
5 28 (29.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 27 (28.72%) Azure Functions
6 27 (28.72%) Entra ID
7 26 (27.66%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (22.34%) Azure Service Bus
8 21 (22.34%) GitHub
9 18 (19.15%) Azure Key Vault
10 17 (18.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (14.89%) AWS
12 13 (13.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (13.83%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (9.57%) Azure App Service
13 9 (9.57%) Azure Event Grid
14 8 (8.51%) Azure API Management
14 8 (8.51%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 8 (8.51%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) Firewall
1 6 (6.38%) Network Security
2 2 (2.13%) VPN
3 1 (1.06%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.40%) NoSQL
2 20 (21.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (15.96%) SQL Server
4 13 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (12.77%) MongoDB
6 11 (11.70%) Data Lake
7 8 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (6.38%) Power BI
10 3 (3.19%) Big Data
10 3 (3.19%) Redis
10 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.06%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (1.06%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Git
2 7 (7.45%) GitLab
3 4 (4.26%) Postman
4 3 (3.19%) NUnit
5 2 (2.13%) Appium
5 2 (2.13%) git-flow
5 2 (2.13%) JIRA
5 2 (2.13%) Selenium
5 2 (2.13%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.06%) AppVeyor
6 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.06%) JUnit
6 1 (1.06%) Maven
6 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.47%) Finance
3 18 (19.15%) Banking
4 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.26%) Front Office
6 4 (4.26%) Law
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (47.87%) Developer
2 26 (27.66%) Azure Developer
3 14 (14.89%) DBA
4 12 (12.77%) Architect
4 12 (12.77%) Database Developer
5 11 (11.70%) Administrator
5 11 (11.70%) Azure Administrator
6 9 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) .NET Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Lead
9 6 (6.38%) Senior
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Tester
11 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (38.30%) .NET
2 28 (29.79%) .NET Core
3 27 (28.72%) Node.js
4 23 (24.47%) React
5 21 (22.34%) AngularJS
6 11 (11.70%) REST
7 10 (10.64%) Next.js
8 7 (7.45%) .NET Framework
8 7 (7.45%) Express.js
8 7 (7.45%) PyTorch
8 7 (7.45%) TensorFlow
9 6 (6.38%) ASP.NET
9 6 (6.38%) Kafka
10 5 (5.32%) ARM Templates
10 5 (5.32%) CSS
10 5 (5.32%) HTML
10 5 (5.32%) PySpark
11 4 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (4.26%) Spring
11 4 (4.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.60%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.38%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.32%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.26%) Derivative
5 4 (4.26%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.19%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Android
1 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (62.77%) DevOps
2 51 (54.26%) CI/CD
3 42 (44.68%) Agile
4 32 (34.04%) Microservices
5 26 (27.66%) API Management
6 23 (24.47%) Test Automation
7 22 (23.40%) Analytics
8 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (20.21%) Containerisation
9 19 (20.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (19.15%) AI
11 15 (15.96%) Software Engineering
12 14 (14.89%) Data Modelling
12 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.77%) Machine Learning
14 10 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
15 9 (9.57%) ETL
15 9 (9.57%) RBAC
16 8 (8.51%) Design Patterns
16 8 (8.51%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.00%) SQL
2 40 (42.55%) C#
3 25 (26.60%) Python
4 22 (23.40%) Bicep
5 14 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 12 (12.77%) TypeScript
7 11 (11.70%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.45%) Java
9 6 (6.38%) Bash
10 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.19%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.13%) MCP
5 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.06%) ISEB
5 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) MiFID
3 3 (3.19%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Docker
2 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 20 (21.28%) Terraform
3 7 (7.45%) Kibana
4 4 (4.26%) Ansible
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.02%) Databricks
3 13 (13.83%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.26%) Portware
5 3 (3.19%) Confluent
5 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.13%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) Oracle
6 2 (2.13%) Workday
7 1 (1.06%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.06%) IBM
7 1 (1.06%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) Solace
7 1 (1.06%) Sybase