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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 431 468
Rank change year-on-year -99 +37 +102
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 54 40 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.43% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 47
10th Percentile £362 £413 £393
25th Percentile £413 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £605
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% - +0.83%
75th Percentile £572 £650 £615
90th Percentile £628 £714 £738
UK median daily rate £458 £605 £605
% change year-on-year -24.38% - +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 14,201 9,200 11,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.78% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,803 6,477 8,620
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 185 321
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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
North of England -49 18 £425 -5.56% 3
London -77 18 £450 -30.77% 8
Yorkshire -39 14 £413 -5.71% 1
South East -37 11 £438 -27.69% 10
Midlands - 5 £525 - 3
North West -31 4 £575 +27.78% 2
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £538 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 3
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 7 (12.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (44.44%) Serverless
3 22 (40.74%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (40.74%) Azure Functions
4 16 (29.63%) Azure AKS
4 16 (29.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (24.07%) GitHub
6 10 (18.52%) Power Platform
7 9 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (12.96%) AWS
9 7 (12.96%) Azure App Service
9 7 (12.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (12.96%) IaaS
10 6 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (11.11%) Entra ID
10 6 (11.11%) GCP
10 6 (11.11%) PaaS
11 5 (9.26%) Azure API Management
11 5 (9.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) NAS
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
1 1 (1.85%) SAN
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
1 1 (1.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (14.81%) Data Lake
2 8 (14.81%) Power BI
3 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.56%) Metadata
5 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (3.70%) OLAP
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.70%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.85%) HDInsight
7 1 (1.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.11%) JIRA
4 3 (5.56%) Spinnaker
5 2 (3.70%) JUnit
5 2 (3.70%) Liquibase
5 2 (3.70%) Mockito
General
1 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Developer
2 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Senior
3 6 (11.11%) Tester
4 5 (9.26%) Azure Software Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Security Tester
5 4 (7.41%) Backend Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.56%) DBA
6 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Lead
6 3 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) ARM Templates
1 12 (22.22%) REST
2 8 (14.81%) .NET
3 7 (12.96%) OAuth
3 7 (12.96%) SAML
4 6 (11.11%) RESTful
5 5 (9.26%) JWT
5 5 (9.26%) Node.js
6 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.56%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.56%) OpenAPI
6 3 (5.56%) React
6 3 (5.56%) Spring
6 3 (5.56%) Swagger
7 2 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (3.70%) Django
7 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.70%) OpenID
7 2 (3.70%) WireMock
7 2 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.85%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Life Science
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
1 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (68.52%) CI/CD
2 33 (61.11%) DevOps
3 18 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (27.78%) AI
4 15 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
4 15 (27.78%) ETL
5 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (24.07%) Analytics
7 12 (22.22%) Observability
7 12 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (20.37%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (20.37%) Data Modelling
9 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
9 10 (18.52%) Event-Driven
10 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (16.67%) Data Architecture
10 9 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
11 8 (14.81%) Test Strategy
11 8 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) SQL
2 32 (59.26%) Python
3 15 (27.78%) Bicep
4 13 (24.07%) JavaScript
4 13 (24.07%) PowerShell
5 9 (16.67%) C#
6 7 (12.96%) Bash
7 6 (11.11%) Java
8 5 (9.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (7.41%) T-SQL
9 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
10 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.85%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (1.85%) C
11 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.07%) Azure Certification
3 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.56%) OCP
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) NCDA
5 1 (1.85%) NCIE
5 1 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
2 11 (20.37%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.85%) NFS
4 1 (1.85%) SRDF
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) Terraform
2 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Data Guard
3 3 (5.56%) Istio
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (3.70%) systemd
5 1 (1.85%) Ansible
5 1 (1.85%) Argo
5 1 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.85%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (1.85%) Grafana
5 1 (1.85%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.85%) SnapMirror
5 1 (1.85%) SnapVault
5 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (53.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) Databricks
3 6 (11.11%) Splunk
4 5 (9.26%) OpenAI
5 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.56%) Alibaba
6 3 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 3 (5.56%) Google
6 3 (5.56%) Oracle
7 1 (1.85%) 3PAR
7 1 (1.85%) Brocade
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) Dell
7 1 (1.85%) EMC
7 1 (1.85%) NetApp
7 1 (1.85%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.85%) Veeam
7 1 (1.85%) VMware