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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 427 473
Rank change year-on-year -71 +46 +114
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 40 78 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.70% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 54 56
10th Percentile £358 £449 £488
25th Percentile £378 £514 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% -0.82% -3.94%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £659
90th Percentile £541 £788 £713
UK median daily rate £438 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -26.16% -1.25% -4.00%

All Cloud 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 11,745 11,070 13,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.65% 35.90% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,996 7,359 10,084
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
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 £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 140 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% +10.00% +36.36%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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 -27 18 £419 -35.58% 10
South East -4 13 £425 -19.05% 5
Yorkshire -38 5 £400 -30.13% 3
North of England -38 5 £400 -36.00% 5
Midlands -33 3 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
West Midlands -27 1 £390 -22.00% 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 5 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Azure AKS
3 12 (30.00%) PaaS
4 11 (27.50%) IaaS
5 10 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (22.50%) Azure Functions
6 9 (22.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (22.50%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (22.50%) Serverless
7 7 (17.50%) Azure API Management
7 7 (17.50%) Azure App Service
7 7 (17.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (15.00%) AWS
8 6 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (10.00%) GCP
10 3 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Network Security
2 4 (10.00%) NAS
2 4 (10.00%) SAN
3 3 (7.50%) Firewall
3 3 (7.50%) VPN
4 2 (5.00%) DNS
5 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.00%) Metadata
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) DataStage
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 5 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JUnit
3 3 (7.50%) Mockito
4 2 (5.00%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.00%) Postman
4 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.50%) Law
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Site Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Tester
5 5 (12.50%) Security Tester
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Backend Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.50%) Applications Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Integration Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) ADO
2 9 (22.50%) ARM Templates
3 6 (15.00%) RESTful
3 6 (15.00%) YAML
4 5 (12.50%) JWT
4 5 (12.50%) OAuth
4 5 (12.50%) SAML
5 3 (7.50%) .NET
5 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (7.50%) WireMock
6 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.00%) REST
6 2 (5.00%) SOAP
6 2 (5.00%) Spring
6 2 (5.00%) Swagger
6 2 (5.00%) WSDL
6 2 (5.00%) XSLT
7 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Code
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) VMS
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 18 (45.00%) DevOps
3 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (27.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (22.50%) Analytics
7 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
8 6 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (15.00%) Log Analytics
8 6 (15.00%) Microservices
8 6 (15.00%) Storage Management
8 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
8 6 (15.00%) Test Strategy
8 6 (15.00%) Validation
9 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (12.50%) Manual Testing
9 5 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 16 (40.00%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) Bicep
3 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (20.00%) Bash
5 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.00%) Java
7 3 (7.50%) C#
7 3 (7.50%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) GDPR
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
1 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
3 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 4 (10.00%) Databricks
3 4 (10.00%) EMC
3 4 (10.00%) NetApp
3 4 (10.00%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle