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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 450 475
Rank change year-on-year -30 +25 +144
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 41 84 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.74% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 61
10th Percentile £361 £448 £500
25th Percentile £413 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -1.64% -3.17%
75th Percentile £511 £650 £713
90th Percentile £607 £803 £800
UK median daily rate £445 £591 £610
% change year-on-year -24.74% -3.07% -2.40%

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 10,504 11,397 15,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.82% 34.60% 35.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,116 7,739 11,219
10th Percentile £306 £313 £310
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 173 300
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.75 £14.49
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £69.06
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

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
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 September 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 20 September 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
South East +7 20 £425 -29.75% 8
London -19 12 £364 -38.57% 8
Midlands -14 4 £450 -10.00% 3
North of England -30 3 £525 -16.00% 1
West Midlands -6 2 £390 -22.00% 2
North West -12 2 £538 -17.31%
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -13 1 £438 -23.58% 1
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 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (58.54%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (41.46%) Azure AKS
4 15 (36.59%) PaaS
5 14 (34.15%) IaaS
6 13 (31.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (31.71%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (21.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (21.95%) Entra ID
8 8 (19.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (17.07%) Azure API Management
9 7 (17.07%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (14.63%) Azure Functions
10 6 (14.63%) Serverless
11 5 (12.20%) AWS
12 4 (9.76%) Azure App Service
12 4 (9.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (9.76%) GCP
12 4 (9.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Network Security
2 4 (9.76%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) NAS
2 4 (9.76%) SAN
2 4 (9.76%) VPN
3 3 (7.32%) DNS
4 2 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.44%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (46.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (9.76%) Power BI
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.44%) DataStage
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
1 2 (4.88%) Postman
1 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) JUnit
2 1 (2.44%) Mockito
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Law
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (39.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 16 (39.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (31.71%) Site Engineer
3 13 (31.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Migration Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Data Integration Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.44%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (48.78%) ADO
2 13 (31.71%) ARM Templates
3 6 (14.63%) .NET
3 6 (14.63%) .NET Core
3 6 (14.63%) YAML
4 3 (7.32%) RESTful
5 2 (4.88%) SOAP
5 2 (4.88%) Swagger
5 2 (4.88%) WSDL
5 2 (4.88%) XSLT
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.44%) Java EE
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
6 1 (2.44%) Middleware
6 1 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) Spring
6 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Legacy Code
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) VMS
2 2 (4.88%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) DevOps
2 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (39.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (21.95%) Analytics
5 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.07%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (17.07%) Identity Management
6 7 (17.07%) Log Analytics
7 6 (14.63%) API Management
7 6 (14.63%) DevSecOps
7 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (14.63%) Migration
8 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.20%) GitOps
8 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (9.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) SQL
2 14 (34.15%) PowerShell
3 13 (31.71%) Bicep
4 12 (29.27%) Python
5 11 (26.83%) Bash
6 7 (17.07%) C#
7 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.44%) Java
8 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.44%) Scala
8 1 (2.44%) VB
8 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) Azure Certification
3 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.88%) Degree
7 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
1 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.76%) Docker
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.83%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) Grafana
3 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Istio
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.44%) SCOM
4 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) EMC
2 5 (12.20%) NetApp
3 4 (9.76%) Databricks
3 4 (9.76%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Citrix
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Veeam
4 1 (2.44%) VMware