Azure Storage Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 464 549
Rank change year-on-year +19 +85 +73
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 40 78 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.66% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 48 70
10th Percentile £406 £394 £427
25th Percentile £427 £475 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +0.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £609 £675
90th Percentile £713 £749 £801
UK median daily rate £575 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +4.35%

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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in England

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +16 22 £650 +9.47% 12
South East +38 8 £425 -29.75% 4
North of England +22 5 £450 -12.20% 8
North West +19 4 £488 -4.88% 3
South West +41 3 £450 -13.25% 2
Midlands +22 1 - - 3
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 3
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 5 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) Azure App Service
2 13 (32.50%) Serverless
3 12 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 11 (27.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (27.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (17.50%) AWS
7 7 (17.50%) GitHub
7 7 (17.50%) IaaS
7 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
8 6 (15.00%) Power Automate
9 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (17.50%) Power BI
2 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.50%) Big Data
6 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.50%) HBase
6 1 (2.50%) HDInsight
6 1 (2.50%) Impala
6 1 (2.50%) Metadata
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Parquet
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (32.50%) Public Sector
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Finance
2 2 (5.00%) Front Office
3 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Architect
2 11 (27.50%) Azure Architect
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) React Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (37.50%) ARM Templates
2 11 (27.50%) .NET
2 11 (27.50%) .NET Core
3 5 (12.50%) ADO
3 5 (12.50%) Blazor
4 4 (10.00%) RESTful
5 3 (7.50%) OAuth
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.00%) PySpark
6 2 (5.00%) React
7 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.50%) CSS
7 1 (2.50%) CSS3
7 1 (2.50%) JWT
7 1 (2.50%) Kafka
7 1 (2.50%) React Native
7 1 (2.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.50%) TWAP
2 3 (7.50%) VWAP
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.00%) Clustering
3 2 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Solar Panel
4 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) VMS
3 2 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Android
4 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (35.00%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) Cloud Security
4 11 (27.50%) RBAC
5 10 (25.00%) Agile
6 9 (22.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (20.00%) Analytics
8 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
8 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.00%) Microservices
10 5 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
10 5 (12.50%) Data Development
10 5 (12.50%) ETL
10 5 (12.50%) Front End Development
10 5 (12.50%) Multithreading
10 5 (12.50%) SDLC
10 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 13 (32.50%) Bicep
3 11 (27.50%) Python
4 10 (25.00%) C#
5 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (12.50%) C++
6 5 (12.50%) Go
6 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
7 4 (10.00%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) Perl
8 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.50%) VB
8 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.00%) Degree
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) HL7
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Flume
4 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) Terraform
2 13 (32.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
3 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.50%) SCCM
4 1 (2.50%) SCOM
4 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Databricks
3 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 5 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Citrix
4 1 (2.50%) EMC
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) NetApp
4 1 (2.50%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam
4 1 (2.50%) VMware