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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 478 443
Rank change year-on-year -110 -35 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 49 37 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.35% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 28 53
10th Percentile £403 £357 £448
25th Percentile £450 £402 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £425 £593
Median % change year-on-year +27.65% -28.27% -2.87%
75th Percentile £613 £479 £650
90th Percentile £638 £519 £788
UK median daily rate £535 £425 £593
% change year-on-year +25.88% -28.27% -2.87%

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 15,949 10,616 11,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 38.24% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,183 7,470
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 254 165
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 October 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 October 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 -85 19 £550 +51.10% 17
South East -67 9 £500 +17.65% 8
Midlands -38 7 £430 -4.44% 4
West Midlands -41 7 £430 +10.26% 1
North of England -66 7 £519 -1.14% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £519 - 1
South West - 4 £600 - 2
East of England - 3 £576 - 1
North West -47 1 £575 +9.52% 3
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 8 (16.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.20%) Confluence
3 4 (8.16%) Apache
4 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (6.12%) CMS
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (4.08%) nginx
6 1 (2.04%) EPiServer
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (6.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (55.10%) Serverless
3 26 (53.06%) Azure Functions
4 24 (48.98%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (44.90%) Entra ID
6 19 (38.78%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (34.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (30.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (28.57%) GitHub
10 10 (20.41%) Azure API Management
10 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
11 9 (18.37%) Azure AKS
11 9 (18.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (14.29%) PaaS
13 6 (12.24%) Azure App Service
13 6 (12.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (12.24%) IaaS
14 5 (10.20%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) DNS
2 4 (8.16%) WAN
3 3 (6.12%) Firewall
3 3 (6.12%) VPN
4 2 (4.08%) HTTPS
4 2 (4.08%) NAS
4 2 (4.08%) SAN
4 2 (4.08%) VSAN
5 1 (2.04%) Network Security
5 1 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (20.41%) Data Lake
3 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
4 7 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (12.24%) Power BI
5 6 (12.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (8.16%) Metadata
7 4 (8.16%) Parquet
8 2 (4.08%) Delta Lake
8 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (4.08%) MySQL
8 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
8 2 (4.08%) Redis
8 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.04%) Big Data
9 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) JIRA
3 2 (4.08%) Jasmine
3 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) JUnit
3 2 (4.08%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 11 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Local Government
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Police
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Architect
2 11 (22.45%) Developer
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Senior
4 9 (18.37%) Data Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Azure Developer
5 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Lead
6 6 (12.24%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Architect
7 4 (8.16%) .NET Developer
7 4 (8.16%) ICT Officer
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Integration Developer
8 3 (6.12%) React Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.73%) Terraform
2 17 (34.69%) REST
3 11 (22.45%) .NET
4 7 (14.29%) ARM Templates
4 7 (14.29%) JSON
5 6 (12.24%) OAuth
5 6 (12.24%) OpenID
6 5 (10.20%) .NET Core
6 5 (10.20%) .NET Framework
6 5 (10.20%) Entity Framework
6 5 (10.20%) RESTful
6 5 (10.20%) SAML
7 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.12%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.12%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (6.12%) HTML
7 3 (6.12%) Middleware
7 3 (6.12%) React
7 3 (6.12%) Spring
7 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Life Science
3 3 (6.12%) Replication
3 3 (6.12%) Wiki
4 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (4.08%) EMC VNX
4 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.04%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (69.39%) CI/CD
2 28 (57.14%) DevOps
3 18 (36.73%) Analytics
4 17 (34.69%) RBAC
5 16 (32.65%) Migration
5 16 (32.65%) Test Automation
6 15 (30.61%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (26.53%) Log Analytics
8 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
8 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (24.49%) Agile
9 12 (24.49%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (24.49%) ETL
9 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (22.45%) Data Modelling
10 11 (22.45%) Observability
11 10 (20.41%) Decision-Making
11 10 (20.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (67.35%) SQL
2 22 (44.90%) Python
3 11 (22.45%) C#
3 11 (22.45%) PowerShell
4 10 (20.41%) Bicep
5 5 (10.20%) Bash
6 4 (8.16%) Java
7 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Azure Certification
1 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.12%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) NCDA
4 2 (4.08%) NCIE
4 2 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.04%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.08%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.04%) GLBA
4 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.33%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (10.20%) Docker
4 4 (8.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.08%) NFS
5 2 (4.08%) SRDF
5 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.29%) Grafana
3 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) Ansible
5 2 (4.08%) Argo
5 2 (4.08%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (4.08%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (4.08%) NetBackup
5 2 (4.08%) SnapMirror
5 2 (4.08%) SnapVault
5 2 (4.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.04%) Podman
6 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (67.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.57%) Databricks
3 5 (10.20%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.12%) Aprimo
4 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.12%) OneTrust
4 3 (6.12%) Optimizely
5 2 (4.08%) 3PAR
5 2 (4.08%) Brocade
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco
5 2 (4.08%) Dell
5 2 (4.08%) EMC
5 2 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) NetApp
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) Pure Storage
5 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.08%) Veeam
5 2 (4.08%) VMware
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe