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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 480 448
Rank change year-on-year -104 -32 +45
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 47 38 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.37% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 57
10th Percentile £402 £359 £399
25th Percentile £430 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £593
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -26.16% -6.14%
75th Percentile £609 £531 £614
90th Percentile £638 £611 £773
UK median daily rate £519 £450 £593
% change year-on-year +15.33% -24.05% -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 16,032 10,294 11,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.31% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,712 6,972 7,902
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.29 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -75 16 £450 +21.54% 13
Midlands -41 11 £513 +13.89%
West Midlands -39 9 £478 -
North of England -61 8 £547 +4.19% 2
Yorkshire -33 6 £519 +18.63%
South East -78 6 £500 +17.65% 5
South West - 4 £600 - 1
East Midlands -17 2 £575 +27.78%
North West -48 2 £575 +6.98% 2
East of England - 2 £576 - 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 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) Confluence
3 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.26%) CMS
4 1 (2.13%) EPiServer
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (53.19%) Serverless
3 23 (48.94%) Azure Functions
4 19 (40.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (34.04%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (34.04%) Entra ID
6 14 (29.79%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (27.66%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (19.15%) Power Platform
9 8 (17.02%) Azure AKS
9 8 (17.02%) GitHub
10 7 (14.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (14.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (12.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (10.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (8.51%) Azure App Service
13 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (8.51%) IaaS
13 4 (8.51%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) DNS
2 4 (8.51%) WAN
3 3 (6.38%) VPN
4 2 (4.26%) Firewall
4 2 (4.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (4.26%) NAS
4 2 (4.26%) SAN
4 2 (4.26%) VSAN
5 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (27.66%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (25.53%) Data Lake
4 7 (14.89%) NoSQL
4 7 (14.89%) Power BI
5 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.26%) Metadata
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (4.26%) MySQL
6 2 (4.26%) OLAP
6 2 (4.26%) Parquet
6 2 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (4.26%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) Jasmine
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) JUnit
2 2 (4.26%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.38%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Data Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 9 (19.15%) Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Lead
6 5 (10.64%) Azure Architect
6 5 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) ICT Officer
7 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Technical Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Terraform
2 12 (25.53%) REST
3 6 (12.77%) .NET
4 4 (8.51%) HTML
4 4 (8.51%) JSON
4 4 (8.51%) RESTful
5 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.38%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.38%) ARM Templates
5 3 (6.38%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.38%) OAuth
5 3 (6.38%) OpenID
5 3 (6.38%) SAML
5 3 (6.38%) Spring
6 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (4.26%) CSS
6 2 (4.26%) NgRx
6 2 (4.26%) Node.js
6 2 (4.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (4.26%) EMC VNX
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Life Science
4 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Data ONTAP
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) CI/CD
2 23 (48.94%) DevOps
3 18 (38.30%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (34.04%) ETL
5 15 (31.91%) Migration
5 15 (31.91%) Roadmaps
6 14 (29.79%) Analytics
6 14 (29.79%) Data Modelling
7 13 (27.66%) Cloud Security
7 13 (27.66%) Test Automation
8 12 (25.53%) Agile
8 12 (25.53%) Decision-Making
8 12 (25.53%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (25.53%) RBAC
8 12 (25.53%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (23.40%) AI
9 11 (23.40%) Data Architecture
9 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (23.40%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 33 (70.21%) SQL
2 20 (42.55%) Python
3 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.77%) Bicep
4 6 (12.77%) C#
5 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) Java
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.13%) C
8 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) Azure Certification
3 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) NCDA
5 2 (4.26%) NCIE
5 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.02%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (14.89%) Docker
4 4 (8.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.26%) NFS
5 2 (4.26%) SRDF
5 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Grafana
2 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
3 2 (4.26%) Argo
3 2 (4.26%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (4.26%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (4.26%) NetBackup
3 2 (4.26%) SnapMirror
3 2 (4.26%) SnapVault
3 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 31 (65.96%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.66%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.26%) 3PAR
4 2 (4.26%) Aprimo
4 2 (4.26%) Brocade
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco
4 2 (4.26%) Dell
4 2 (4.26%) EMC
4 2 (4.26%) NetApp
4 2 (4.26%) OneTrust
4 2 (4.26%) Optimizely
4 2 (4.26%) Pure Storage
4 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.26%) Veeam
4 2 (4.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Civica
5 1 (2.13%) Google