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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 433 473
Rank change year-on-year -99 +40 +67
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 52 39 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.42% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 45
10th Percentile £360 £411 £390
25th Percentile £411 £485 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +7.44% +0.83%
75th Percentile £564 £663 £615
90th Percentile £616 £788 £718
UK median daily rate £450 £605 £605
% change year-on-year -25.62% - +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 13,807 9,206 12,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.81% 37.92% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,518 6,471 8,752
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 176 331
10th Percentile £15.89 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.25% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £63.24 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.38 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -75 17 £438 -32.69% 7
North of England -56 16 £400 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire -47 13 £400 -8.57% 1
South East -38 12 £425 -15.42% 9
Midlands - 5 £525 - 3
North West -36 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £538 - 1
East of England -33 1 - - 3
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 7 (13.46%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (46.15%) Serverless
3 23 (44.23%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (44.23%) Azure Functions
4 16 (30.77%) Azure AKS
5 15 (28.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (23.08%) GitHub
7 9 (17.31%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (17.31%) Power Platform
8 8 (15.38%) AWS
8 8 (15.38%) IaaS
9 7 (13.46%) Azure App Service
9 7 (13.46%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (13.46%) PaaS
10 6 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (11.54%) GCP
11 5 (9.62%) Azure API Management
11 5 (9.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (36.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (13.46%) Power BI
3 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.77%) Metadata
4 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.92%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.92%) OLAP
6 1 (1.92%) Parquet
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) JIRA
4 3 (5.77%) Spinnaker
5 2 (3.85%) JUnit
5 2 (3.85%) Liquibase
5 2 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Finance
2 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.77%) Legal
4 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Tester
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Software Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Security Tester
6 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Backend Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) DBA
7 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) REST
2 12 (23.08%) ARM Templates
3 8 (15.38%) .NET
4 7 (13.46%) OAuth
4 7 (13.46%) SAML
5 6 (11.54%) RESTful
6 5 (9.62%) JWT
6 5 (9.62%) Node.js
7 3 (5.77%) .NET Framework
7 3 (5.77%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.77%) OpenAPI
7 3 (5.77%) React
7 3 (5.77%) Spring
7 3 (5.77%) Swagger
8 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.85%) Flask
8 2 (3.85%) Next.js
8 2 (3.85%) PySpark
8 2 (3.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.92%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Life Science
5 1 (1.92%) NHS
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Linux
1 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 32 (61.54%) DevOps
3 17 (32.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (26.92%) AI
5 13 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (25.00%) ETL
5 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (21.15%) Analytics
6 11 (21.15%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (21.15%) Observability
7 10 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
8 9 (17.31%) Data Modelling
8 9 (17.31%) Event-Driven
8 9 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (15.38%) Data Architecture
9 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 8 (15.38%) Test Strategy
9 8 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (63.46%) SQL
2 30 (57.69%) Python
3 15 (28.85%) Bicep
4 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
6 9 (17.31%) C#
7 6 (11.54%) Bash
7 6 (11.54%) Java
8 4 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.92%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (1.92%) C
10 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Azure Certification
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.77%) OCP
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
2 10 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Terraform
2 14 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.77%) Data Guard
3 3 (5.77%) Istio
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (3.85%) systemd
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.23%) Databricks
3 6 (11.54%) Splunk
4 5 (9.62%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.77%) Alibaba
5 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
5 3 (5.77%) Google
5 3 (5.77%) Oracle
5 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow