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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 432 456
Rank change year-on-year -104 +24 +88
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 46 37 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.41% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 49
10th Percentile £381 £403 £399
25th Percentile £413 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £605
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -10.74% +0.83%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £608
90th Percentile £638 £650 £810
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £605
% change year-on-year -14.29% -13.22% +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 14,385 9,028 11,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,245 8,435
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 203 327
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £17.96 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +34.55% +28.69% -38.94%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -60 14 £431 -29.59% 5
North of England -56 13 £522 +16.00%
South East -62 12 £450 +5.88% 4
Yorkshire -49 9 £519 +18.63%
Midlands -60 6 £525 - 3
North West -40 4 £575 +17.95%
West Midlands -50 3 £525 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 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 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (47.83%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (45.65%) Serverless
4 19 (41.30%) Azure Functions
5 17 (36.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (30.43%) Azure AKS
7 13 (28.26%) GitHub
8 9 (19.57%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
9 8 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (15.22%) AWS
10 7 (15.22%) IaaS
11 6 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (13.04%) GCP
11 6 (13.04%) PaaS
12 5 (10.87%) Azure API Management
12 5 (10.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
13 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DNS
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.17%) NAS
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
1 1 (2.17%) SAN
1 1 (2.17%) VPN
1 1 (2.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (39.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (17.39%) Data Lake
3 7 (15.22%) Power BI
4 6 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (6.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.35%) Metadata
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) OLAP
6 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (4.35%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.17%) HDInsight
7 1 (2.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) Spinnaker
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Software Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) DBA
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) REST
2 11 (23.91%) ARM Templates
3 8 (17.39%) .NET
4 5 (10.87%) Node.js
5 3 (6.52%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.52%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.52%) OpenAPI
5 3 (6.52%) PySpark
5 3 (6.52%) React
5 3 (6.52%) RESTful
5 3 (6.52%) Swagger
6 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.35%) Django
6 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.35%) Flask
6 2 (4.35%) JSON
6 2 (4.35%) Next.js
6 2 (4.35%) OpenID
6 2 (4.35%) SAML
6 2 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) AI Agents
2 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.17%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Life Science
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
1 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (76.09%) CI/CD
2 33 (71.74%) DevOps
3 16 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (32.61%) AI
5 14 (30.43%) ETL
6 13 (28.26%) Analytics
7 12 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (21.74%) Data Modelling
9 9 (19.57%) Observability
9 9 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (17.39%) Data Architecture
10 8 (17.39%) Migration
10 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
11 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
11 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven
11 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
12 6 (13.04%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) SQL
2 26 (56.52%) Python
3 14 (30.43%) Bicep
4 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
5 9 (19.57%) C#
6 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
7 7 (15.22%) Bash
8 4 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (6.52%) Java
9 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
9 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.17%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (2.17%) C
10 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Azure Certification
2 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) OCP
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.17%) NCDA
6 1 (2.17%) NCIE
6 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.87%) GDPR
3 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.35%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (19.57%) Docker
3 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.17%) NFS
4 1 (2.17%) SRDF
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Terraform
2 11 (23.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Data Guard
3 3 (6.52%) Istio
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (4.35%) systemd
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.17%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) SnapMirror
5 1 (2.17%) SnapVault
5 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (58.70%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) Databricks
3 5 (10.87%) OpenAI
4 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.52%) Alibaba
5 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
5 3 (6.52%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.17%) Brocade
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco
6 1 (2.17%) Dell
6 1 (2.17%) EMC
6 1 (2.17%) NetApp
6 1 (2.17%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam
6 1 (2.17%) VMware