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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 441 460
Rank change year-on-year -53 +19 +98
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 39 63 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.59% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 41 55
10th Percentile £362 £463 £485
25th Percentile £402 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £605 £605
Median % change year-on-year -29.34% - -3.20%
75th Percentile £508 £704 £650
90th Percentile £571 £825 £713
UK median daily rate £445 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -25.83% - -0.83%

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 11,998 10,622 13,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.15% 36.66% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 7,102 9,536
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -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 298 134 249
10th Percentile £14.93 £17.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.75 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%

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 December 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 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 -31 16 £431 -33.65% 6
South East -23 13 £500 -11.50% 6
North of England -46 7 £400 -30.13% 1
Yorkshire -37 6 £400 -30.13% 1
Midlands -40 2 £420 -16.00%
North West -27 1 - -
West Midlands -33 1 £390 -22.00%
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
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 (12.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) Azure AKS
4 10 (25.64%) Azure Functions
4 10 (25.64%) Serverless
5 9 (23.08%) AWS
5 9 (23.08%) PaaS
6 8 (20.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (20.51%) IaaS
7 7 (17.95%) GCP
8 6 (15.38%) Azure App Service
9 5 (12.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
10 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
10 4 (10.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (10.26%) GitHub
10 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) NAS
1 4 (10.26%) SAN
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.69%) Metadata
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) DataStage
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) JUnit
3 3 (7.69%) Mockito
3 3 (7.69%) Spinnaker
4 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.13%) Postman
4 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Tester
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Security Tester
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Backend Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Site Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) DBA
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) ADO
1 6 (15.38%) RESTful
2 5 (12.82%) JWT
2 5 (12.82%) OAuth
2 5 (12.82%) REST
2 5 (12.82%) SAML
2 5 (12.82%) Swagger
3 4 (10.26%) OpenAPI
4 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 3 (7.69%) Node.js
4 3 (7.69%) WireMock
4 3 (7.69%) YAML
5 2 (5.13%) .NET
5 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.13%) SOAP
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
5 2 (5.13%) WSDL
5 2 (5.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.13%) VMS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (20.51%) Storage Management
4 7 (17.95%) Analytics
4 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
4 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (15.38%) API Design
5 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Task Automation
5 6 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 6 (15.38%) Validation
6 5 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (12.82%) Manual Testing
6 5 (12.82%) Observability
6 5 (12.82%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.26%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) SQL
2 16 (41.03%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) Bicep
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.38%) Bash
5 5 (12.82%) Java
6 4 (10.26%) C#
6 4 (10.26%) T-SQL
7 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (5.13%) Scala
9 1 (2.56%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.69%) OCP
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) GDPR
2 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.13%) QA
5 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Data Guard
3 3 (7.69%) Istio
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (5.13%) systemd
5 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Databricks
3 5 (12.82%) Splunk
4 4 (10.26%) EMC
4 4 (10.26%) NetApp
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle
4 4 (10.26%) Pure Storage
5 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) OpenAI