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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 437 470
Rank change year-on-year -78 +33 +62
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 45 51 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.52% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 56
10th Percentile £358 £451 £456
25th Percentile £403 £512 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +7.44% -2.42%
75th Percentile £515 £716 £628
90th Percentile £569 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £425 £600 £605
% change year-on-year -29.17% -0.83% +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 12,579 9,803 12,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.68% 37.43% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,700 6,519 9,245
10th Percentile £305 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 140 303
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.44 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £47.47
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.09% +22.22% -6.25%

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 February 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 February 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 -50 15 £469 -29.25% 2
South East -19 14 £425 -19.05% 4
North of England -56 12 £400 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire -45 11 £400 -23.08% 2
Midlands -46 2 £458 -8.50% 1
East of England -20 1 - -
North West -29 1 - - 1
West Midlands -44 1 £390 -22.00%
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.22%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (48.89%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (42.22%) Serverless
4 18 (40.00%) Azure Functions
5 14 (31.11%) Azure AKS
6 12 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (22.22%) GitHub
8 9 (20.00%) IaaS
8 9 (20.00%) PaaS
9 8 (17.78%) AWS
10 7 (15.56%) Azure API Management
11 6 (13.33%) GCP
12 5 (11.11%) Azure App Service
12 5 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
13 4 (8.89%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
14 3 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.89%) Power BI
2 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.67%) Metadata
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) DataStage
5 1 (2.22%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.33%) JIRA
3 5 (11.11%) Git
4 3 (6.67%) Spinnaker
5 2 (4.44%) JUnit
5 2 (4.44%) Liquibase
5 2 (4.44%) Mockito
5 2 (4.44%) Postman
5 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (6.67%) Legal
1 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (4.44%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Tester
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Software Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Security Tester
3 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Site Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) DBA
5 3 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 9 (20.00%) REST
2 8 (17.78%) .NET
3 6 (13.33%) RESTful
4 5 (11.11%) JWT
4 5 (11.11%) OAuth
4 5 (11.11%) SAML
4 5 (11.11%) Swagger
5 4 (8.89%) ADO
5 4 (8.89%) OpenAPI
6 3 (6.67%) Node.js
7 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.44%) Flask
7 2 (4.44%) Kafka
7 2 (4.44%) Next.js
7 2 (4.44%) PySpark
7 2 (4.44%) React
7 2 (4.44%) SOAP
7 2 (4.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
1 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) CI/CD
1 28 (62.22%) DevOps
2 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (20.00%) ETL
4 8 (17.78%) Test Strategy
5 7 (15.56%) AI
5 7 (15.56%) Analytics
5 7 (15.56%) Observability
5 7 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Validation
7 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.11%) LLM
7 5 (11.11%) Manual Testing
7 5 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) SQL
2 25 (55.56%) Python
3 14 (31.11%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.00%) Bicep
4 9 (20.00%) C#
5 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.33%) Bash
7 5 (11.11%) Java
8 3 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
9 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.22%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
3 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) OCP
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Docker
1 8 (17.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Data Guard
3 3 (6.67%) Istio
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (4.44%) systemd
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Databricks
3 6 (13.33%) Splunk
4 5 (11.11%) OpenAI
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle
6 3 (6.67%) Alibaba
6 3 (6.67%) Dynatrace
6 3 (6.67%) Google
6 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.22%) Alteryx