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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 447 465
Rank change year-on-year -116 +18 +78
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 52 49 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.51% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 63
10th Percentile £389 £371 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.62% -6.92%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £614
90th Percentile £643 £645 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £450 £605
% change year-on-year +15.33% -25.62% -6.92%

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 15,339 9,656 12,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.67% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,518 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 250 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -77 14 £450 +7.46% 3
North of England -67 13 £522 +16.00% 1
Midlands -50 11 £525 +16.67% 3
Yorkshire -41 10 £519 +18.63% 1
South East -71 9 £438 +2.94% 1
West Midlands -45 8 £525 - 3
South West -29 4 £600 +33.33%
East Midlands -11 3 £525 +16.67%
North West -40 3 £575 +17.95%
East of England - 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 2 (3.85%) Apache
1 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (59.62%) Serverless
3 28 (53.85%) Azure Functions
4 21 (40.38%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (38.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (23.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (23.08%) GitHub
7 11 (21.15%) Azure AKS
7 11 (21.15%) Entra ID
8 7 (13.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (13.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
9 6 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (9.62%) IaaS
11 4 (7.69%) AWS
11 4 (7.69%) GCP
11 4 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) DNS
2 4 (7.69%) WAN
3 3 (5.77%) VPN
4 2 (3.85%) Firewall
4 2 (3.85%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.85%) NAS
4 2 (3.85%) SAN
4 2 (3.85%) VSAN
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (44.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (21.15%) Data Lake
2 11 (21.15%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.62%) Power BI
4 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.85%) Metadata
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (3.85%) MySQL
6 2 (3.85%) OLAP
6 2 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.85%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.92%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) Jasmine
3 2 (3.85%) JUnit
3 2 (3.85%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.85%) Retail
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Architect
2 11 (21.15%) Senior
3 10 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Data Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Azure Architect
6 7 (13.46%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Azure Developer
9 4 (7.69%) Azure Software Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Specialist
10 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Lead
10 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
10 3 (5.77%) Technical Specialist
11 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
11 2 (3.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) REST
2 10 (19.23%) ARM Templates
3 7 (13.46%) .NET
4 5 (9.62%) RESTful
5 4 (7.69%) HTML
5 4 (7.69%) Spring
6 3 (5.77%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.77%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.77%) JSON
6 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.85%) CSS3
7 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.85%) HTML5
7 2 (3.85%) Node.js
7 2 (3.85%) OAuth
7 2 (3.85%) OpenID
7 2 (3.85%) PySpark
7 2 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (3.85%) EMC VNX
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 29 (55.77%) DevOps
3 18 (34.62%) Data Pipeline
3 18 (34.62%) ETL
4 16 (30.77%) AI
4 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (28.85%) Migration
5 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (26.92%) Analytics
6 14 (26.92%) Roadmaps
7 13 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 12 (23.08%) Cloud Security
8 12 (23.08%) Data Architecture
8 12 (23.08%) Observability
8 12 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
9 11 (21.15%) Decision-Making
9 11 (21.15%) Event-Driven
9 11 (21.15%) RBAC
9 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (69.23%) SQL
2 25 (48.08%) Python
3 10 (19.23%) Bicep
3 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) C#
4 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) Bash
5 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.69%) Java
7 3 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.92%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) Azure Certification
3 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.77%) Degree
6 2 (3.85%) NCDA
6 2 (3.85%) NCIE
6 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.92%) NIST
4 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (17.31%) Docker
3 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.85%) NFS
5 2 (3.85%) SRDF
5 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Terraform
2 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.85%) Ansible
3 2 (3.85%) Argo
3 2 (3.85%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (3.85%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.85%) SnapMirror
3 2 (3.85%) SnapVault
3 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.92%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (63.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (25.00%) Databricks
3 4 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.77%) Alibaba
4 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.85%) 3PAR
5 2 (3.85%) Brocade
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco
5 2 (3.85%) Dell
5 2 (3.85%) EMC
5 2 (3.85%) NetApp
5 2 (3.85%) Pure Storage
5 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.85%) Veeam
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Splunk