Azure Storage Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 464 542
Rank change year-on-year +16 +78 +102
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 48 89 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.74% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 63 49
10th Percentile £369 £400 £443
25th Percentile £413 £519 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% -6.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £604 £614 £725
90th Percentile £646 £738 £813
UK median daily rate £480 £605 £650
% change year-on-year -20.66% -6.92% +6.12%

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 9,590 12,039 17,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.59% 32.42% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,480 8,596 12,581
10th Percentile £311 £306 £321
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 328 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in England over the 6 months to 30 June 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 30 June 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 +22 21 £419 -29.32% 45
South East +42 16 £425 -29.75% 51
North of England +11 5 £450 -22.58% 38
North West +15 4 £488 -16.13% 24
South West +40 3 £450 -12.20% 18
Midlands - 2 £450 - 33
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 13
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 17
West Midlands - 1 - - 16
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.08%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (31.25%) Azure AKS
4 14 (29.17%) Azure App Service
4 14 (29.17%) IaaS
5 12 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (25.00%) PaaS
6 11 (22.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (22.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (20.83%) Entra ID
8 9 (18.75%) Serverless
9 8 (16.67%) Azure Functions
9 8 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (14.58%) AWS
10 7 (14.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (10.42%) Azure API Management
11 5 (10.42%) GitHub
12 4 (8.33%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
2 4 (8.33%) NAS
2 4 (8.33%) Network Security
2 4 (8.33%) SAN
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.33%) Power BI
3 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Parquet
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Law
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
6 1 (2.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Azure Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Architect
3 13 (27.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 13 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Azure Architect
4 10 (20.83%) Site Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Developer
6 4 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) React Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.08%) .NET Architect
9 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (2.08%) Senior .NET Architect
9 1 (2.08%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (45.83%) ARM Templates
2 16 (33.33%) ADO
3 10 (20.83%) .NET
3 10 (20.83%) .NET Core
4 5 (10.42%) YAML
5 4 (8.33%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) OAuth
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.17%) Blazor
7 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.17%) React
8 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (2.08%) CSS
8 1 (2.08%) JWT
8 1 (2.08%) PySpark
8 1 (2.08%) React Native
8 1 (2.08%) Redux
8 1 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.25%) Legacy Code
2 2 (4.17%) Clustering
2 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.17%) TWAP
2 2 (4.17%) VWAP
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) NHS
3 1 (2.08%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) VMS
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Android
3 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (50.00%) DevOps
1 24 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (27.08%) RBAC
4 12 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 11 (22.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (16.67%) Agile
7 8 (16.67%) API Management
7 8 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (14.58%) Analytics
8 7 (14.58%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (14.58%) Log Analytics
8 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.50%) Identity Management
9 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (10.42%) DevSecOps
10 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (10.42%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (10.42%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Bicep
2 19 (39.58%) SQL
3 15 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 14 (29.17%) Python
5 11 (22.92%) Bash
6 10 (20.83%) C#
7 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.17%) C++
8 2 (4.17%) Go
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.08%) VB
9 1 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.17%) Degree
7 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
1 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 9 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) Terraform
2 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Grafana
3 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.08%) Istio
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.08%) SCCM
5 1 (2.08%) SCOM
5 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) EMC
2 5 (10.42%) NetApp
3 4 (8.33%) Pure Storage
4 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) Veeam
5 1 (2.08%) VMware