Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 448 458
Rank change year-on-year -106 +10 +77
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 51 42 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.45% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 60
10th Percentile £397 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -25.62% -6.92%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £608
90th Percentile £644 £672 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £450 £605
% change year-on-year +15.33% -25.62% +0.83%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure Storage 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 14,992 9,332 11,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.79% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 6,351 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 233 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.10 £37.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in England

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Storage

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
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 Storage within the England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
London -88 13 £450 +12.50% 9
North of England -64 12 £522 +16.00% 1
Midlands -47 11 £525 - 4
South East -60 10 £425 - 2
Yorkshire -46 9 £519 +18.63% 1
West Midlands -51 8 £525 - 4
South West -26 4 £600 +33.33%
North West -41 3 £575 +17.95%
East Midlands - 3 £525 -
East of England - 1 - -
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
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 (3.92%) Apache
1 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (60.78%) Serverless
3 28 (54.90%) Azure Functions
4 21 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (39.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (25.49%) Azure Key Vault
6 13 (25.49%) GitHub
7 12 (23.53%) Azure AKS
8 11 (21.57%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (19.61%) Entra ID
10 8 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (13.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (13.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
12 6 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (9.80%) Azure API Management
13 5 (9.80%) IaaS
14 4 (7.84%) AWS
14 4 (7.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) WAN
3 2 (3.92%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.92%) NAS
3 2 (3.92%) SAN
3 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 2 (3.92%) VSAN
4 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (43.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (21.57%) Data Lake
2 11 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.80%) Power BI
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.92%) OLAP
5 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (3.92%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
6 1 (1.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) Spinnaker
General
1 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Legal
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 8 (15.69%) Data Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Azure Architect
4 7 (13.73%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
8 3 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
9 2 (3.92%) Analyst
9 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 2 (3.92%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Storage Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) REST
2 11 (21.57%) ARM Templates
3 8 (15.69%) .NET
4 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.88%) JSON
4 3 (5.88%) Node.js
4 3 (5.88%) React
4 3 (5.88%) RESTful
5 2 (3.92%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.92%) Django
5 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.92%) Flask
5 2 (3.92%) Next.js
5 2 (3.92%) OAuth
5 2 (3.92%) OpenID
5 2 (3.92%) PySpark
5 2 (3.92%) SAML
5 2 (3.92%) Spring
6 1 (1.96%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.84%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.92%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (3.92%) EMC VNX
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 28 (54.90%) DevOps
3 19 (37.25%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (35.29%) ETL
5 16 (31.37%) AI
6 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (27.45%) Migration
7 14 (27.45%) Roadmaps
8 13 (25.49%) Data Modelling
8 13 (25.49%) Observability
9 12 (23.53%) Analytics
9 12 (23.53%) Cloud Security
9 12 (23.53%) Data Architecture
9 12 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (21.57%) Event-Driven
11 10 (19.61%) Decision-Making
11 10 (19.61%) RBAC
11 10 (19.61%) Test Automation
12 9 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (70.59%) SQL
2 28 (54.90%) Python
3 12 (23.53%) Bicep
4 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
5 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
6 7 (13.73%) C#
7 6 (11.76%) Bash
8 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (3.92%) Java
10 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.96%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) Azure Certification
3 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.92%) NCDA
5 2 (3.92%) NCIE
5 2 (3.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.88%) GDPR
3 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) NIST
4 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (13.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.73%) Docker
3 5 (9.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.92%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.92%) NFS
4 2 (3.92%) SRDF
4 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Ansible
3 2 (3.92%) Argo
3 2 (3.92%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (3.92%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (3.92%) Grafana
3 2 (3.92%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.92%) SnapMirror
3 2 (3.92%) SnapVault
3 2 (3.92%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.96%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (62.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (27.45%) Databricks
3 5 (9.80%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.88%) Alibaba
4 3 (5.88%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) 3PAR
5 2 (3.92%) Brocade
5 2 (3.92%) Cisco
5 2 (3.92%) Dell
5 2 (3.92%) EMC
5 2 (3.92%) NetApp
5 2 (3.92%) Pure Storage
5 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.92%) Veeam
5 2 (3.92%) VMware
6 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) Splunk