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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 476 441
Rank change year-on-year -106 -35 +83
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 46 42 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.41% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 33 62
10th Percentile £404 £361 £397
25th Percentile £430 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £593
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -24.05% -10.57%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £612
90th Percentile £646 £633 £736
UK median daily rate £519 £450 £593
% change year-on-year +15.33% -24.05% -3.27%

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 15,851 10,315 11,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,583 6,980 8,216
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 269 265
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +30.58% +23.18% -36.21%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Midlands -41 12 £525 +16.67% 1
London -75 12 £450 +16.13% 2
West Midlands -45 9 £478 - 1
North of England -71 9 £575 +9.52% 1
South East -83 8 £563 +32.35% 3
Yorkshire -41 6 £560 +27.89% 1
South West - 4 £600 -
East Midlands -12 3 £525 +16.67%
North West -46 3 £575 +6.98%
East of England - 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 (10.87%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (54.35%) Serverless
3 22 (47.83%) Azure Functions
4 17 (36.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (32.61%) Entra ID
7 14 (30.43%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (30.43%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (26.09%) Azure AKS
9 7 (15.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (15.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (15.22%) GitHub
9 7 (15.22%) Power Platform
10 6 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (10.87%) Azure App Service
11 5 (10.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (10.87%) IaaS
11 5 (10.87%) PaaS
12 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) DNS
2 4 (8.70%) WAN
3 3 (6.52%) VPN
4 2 (4.35%) Firewall
4 2 (4.35%) HTTPS
4 2 (4.35%) NAS
4 2 (4.35%) SAN
4 2 (4.35%) VSAN
5 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (39.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (21.74%) Data Lake
4 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
5 5 (10.87%) Power BI
6 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
8 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.35%) Metadata
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (4.35%) MySQL
8 2 (4.35%) OLAP
8 2 (4.35%) Parquet
8 2 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (4.35%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) Jasmine
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) JUnit
3 2 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Finance
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
1 11 (23.91%) Senior
2 10 (21.74%) Architect
2 10 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Azure Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.52%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) React Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Technical Specialist
8 2 (4.35%) Angular Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) REST
2 6 (13.04%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) .NET Framework
2 6 (13.04%) ARM Templates
2 6 (13.04%) Entity Framework
2 6 (13.04%) RESTful
3 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
3 5 (10.87%) OAuth
3 5 (10.87%) OpenID
3 5 (10.87%) SAML
4 4 (8.70%) HTML
4 4 (8.70%) JSON
4 4 (8.70%) Spring
5 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.35%) CSS3
6 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.35%) HTML5
6 2 (4.35%) Node.js
6 2 (4.35%) PySpark
6 2 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.35%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (4.35%) EMC VNX
3 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.35%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Life Science
4 1 (2.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 24 (52.17%) DevOps
3 16 (34.78%) Analytics
3 16 (34.78%) Migration
4 15 (32.61%) Data Pipeline
4 15 (32.61%) ETL
4 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (32.61%) Roadmaps
5 14 (30.43%) Cloud Security
5 14 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (30.43%) RBAC
5 14 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 13 (28.26%) AI
7 12 (26.09%) Data Architecture
7 12 (26.09%) Decision-Making
7 12 (26.09%) Observability
8 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
8 11 (23.91%) Event-Driven
8 11 (23.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) SQL
2 22 (47.83%) Python
3 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 9 (19.57%) Bicep
5 5 (10.87%) C#
6 4 (8.70%) Java
6 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.52%) Bash
7 3 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.17%) C
9 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) Azure Certification
3 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) NCDA
6 2 (4.35%) NCIE
6 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.35%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.17%) NIST
4 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.74%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (19.57%) Docker
4 5 (10.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.35%) NFS
5 2 (4.35%) SRDF
5 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 2 (4.35%) Argo
3 2 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (4.35%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) NetBackup
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.35%) SnapMirror
3 2 (4.35%) SnapVault
3 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) Databricks
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) 3PAR
4 2 (4.35%) Brocade
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) Dell
4 2 (4.35%) EMC
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) NetApp
4 2 (4.35%) Pure Storage
4 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.35%) Veeam
4 2 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) Alibaba
5 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow