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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 435 466
Rank change year-on-year -73 +31 +101
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 36 72 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.65% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 54
10th Percentile £361 £463 £483
25th Percentile £400 £520 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £605
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% - -3.20%
75th Percentile £479 £688 £650
90th Percentile £514 £795 £713
UK median daily rate £439 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -26.88% - -3.23%

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 11,806 11,023 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.35% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 7,372 9,861
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
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 294 142 270
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.94 £55.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £69.98 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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
London -28 15 £431 -33.65% 8
South East -22 10 £459 -12.67% 6
North of England -38 7 £400 -36.00% 4
Yorkshire -36 6 £400 -30.13% 4
Midlands -31 3 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
North West -17 1 - -
West Midlands -27 1 £390 -22.00%
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 (13.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.78%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Azure AKS
3 10 (27.78%) Azure Functions
3 10 (27.78%) Serverless
4 8 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (22.22%) PaaS
5 7 (19.44%) Azure App Service
5 7 (19.44%) IaaS
6 6 (16.67%) AWS
6 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 6 (16.67%) GCP
7 5 (13.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (8.33%) Azure API Management
9 3 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) NAS
1 4 (11.11%) SAN
2 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) VPN
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
4 1 (2.78%) Network Security
4 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.33%) Metadata
3 3 (8.33%) Power BI
3 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) DataStage
5 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.78%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.67%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (8.33%) JUnit
3 3 (8.33%) Mockito
4 2 (5.56%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.56%) Postman
4 2 (5.56%) Spinnaker
4 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Tester
3 5 (13.89%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Security Tester
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) ADO
1 6 (16.67%) RESTful
2 5 (13.89%) JWT
2 5 (13.89%) OAuth
2 5 (13.89%) SAML
3 4 (11.11%) REST
3 4 (11.11%) Swagger
4 3 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.33%) OpenAPI
4 3 (8.33%) WireMock
4 3 (8.33%) YAML
5 2 (5.56%) .NET
5 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.56%) Node.js
5 2 (5.56%) SOAP
5 2 (5.56%) Spring
5 2 (5.56%) WSDL
5 2 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) VMS
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 14 (38.89%) DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (19.44%) Analytics
5 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
5 7 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.67%) Storage Management
6 6 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 6 (16.67%) Validation
7 5 (13.89%) API Design
7 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (13.89%) Manual Testing
7 5 (13.89%) Observability
7 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 4 (11.11%) Microservices
8 4 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) SQL
2 15 (41.67%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
4 6 (16.67%) Bicep
5 5 (13.89%) Bash
5 5 (13.89%) Java
6 4 (11.11%) C#
6 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (5.56%) Scala
8 1 (2.78%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.22%) Azure Certification
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
1 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Istio
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Databricks
3 5 (13.89%) Splunk
4 4 (11.11%) EMC
4 4 (11.11%) NetApp
4 4 (11.11%) Pure Storage
5 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle