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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 441 464
Rank change year-on-year -95 +23 +101
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 46 40 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.44% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 49
10th Percentile £381 £406 £395
25th Percentile £413 £414 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £563 £605
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -7.02% +0.83%
75th Percentile £575 £647 £608
90th Percentile £638 £713 £745
UK median daily rate £458 £550 £605
% change year-on-year -16.82% -9.09% +1.89%

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 14,359 9,084 11,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 37.23% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 6,352 8,496
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 198 318
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.07 £41.85 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.88 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%

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 6 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 6 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 -55 14 £431 -33.65% 7
North of England -52 13 £522 +16.00%
South East -49 11 £438 +2.94% 5
Yorkshire -49 9 £519 +18.63%
Midlands -65 6 £525 - 2
North West -42 4 £575 +17.95%
West Midlands -54 3 £525 -
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 20 (43.48%) Serverless
4 18 (39.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (39.13%) Azure Functions
5 14 (30.43%) Azure AKS
6 13 (28.26%) GitHub
7 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
8 9 (19.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
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%) Entra ID
13 4 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DNS
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
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 19 (41.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (17.39%) Data Lake
2 8 (17.39%) Power BI
3 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.52%) Metadata
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
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 11 (23.91%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) Spinnaker
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Finance
5 3 (6.52%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 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%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Developer
6 3 (6.52%) DBA
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) ARM Templates
1 12 (26.09%) REST
2 8 (17.39%) .NET
3 5 (10.87%) Node.js
4 4 (8.70%) PySpark
5 3 (6.52%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.52%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.52%) OpenAPI
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%) Flask
6 2 (4.35%) Next.js
6 2 (4.35%) OAuth
6 2 (4.35%) OpenID
6 2 (4.35%) SAML
6 2 (4.35%) Spring
6 2 (4.35%) YAML
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 36 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 33 (71.74%) DevOps
3 17 (36.96%) Data Pipeline
3 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (32.61%) AI
4 15 (32.61%) ETL
5 14 (30.43%) Analytics
6 12 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (23.91%) Data Modelling
8 9 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (19.57%) Data Architecture
8 9 (19.57%) Observability
8 9 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (17.39%) Migration
9 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
10 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
10 7 (15.22%) Data Governance
10 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven
10 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (69.57%) SQL
2 27 (58.70%) 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 5 (10.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (8.70%) T-SQL
9 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
10 3 (6.52%) Java
10 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (2.17%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (2.17%) C
11 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Azure Certification
2 9 (19.57%) 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 17 (36.96%) 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 12 (26.09%) 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