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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 454 451
Rank change year-on-year -60 -3 +98
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 39 60 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.57% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 52
10th Percentile £362 £459 £478
25th Percentile £400 £511 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £608
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +2.88% -0.82%
75th Percentile £511 £704 £650
90th Percentile £573 £828 £713
UK median daily rate £445 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -25.83% - -

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 12,040 10,525 12,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.97% 36.62% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,276 7,037 9,306
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £649 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 136 243
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.67 £68.75 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%

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 25 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 25 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 -25 16 £425 -34.62% 10
South East -25 13 £500 -11.50% 6
North of England -49 7 £400 -30.13%
Yorkshire -36 6 £400 -30.13%
Midlands -39 2 £420 -16.00% 3
North West -31 1 - -
West Midlands -32 1 £390 -22.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 2
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 (12.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) Azure AKS
3 11 (28.21%) Azure Functions
3 11 (28.21%) Serverless
4 9 (23.08%) AWS
5 8 (20.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (20.51%) PaaS
6 7 (17.95%) Azure App Service
6 7 (17.95%) GCP
6 7 (17.95%) IaaS
7 5 (12.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (10.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (10.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (10.26%) GitHub
8 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.69%) Apigee
9 3 (7.69%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) NAS
1 4 (10.26%) SAN
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.69%) Metadata
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) DataStage
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) JUnit
3 3 (7.69%) Mockito
3 3 (7.69%) Spinnaker
4 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.13%) Postman
4 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Tester
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Security Tester
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Backend Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Site Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) DBA
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) RESTful
2 5 (12.82%) ADO
2 5 (12.82%) JWT
2 5 (12.82%) OAuth
2 5 (12.82%) REST
2 5 (12.82%) SAML
2 5 (12.82%) Swagger
3 4 (10.26%) OpenAPI
4 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (7.69%) Node.js
4 3 (7.69%) WireMock
4 3 (7.69%) YAML
5 2 (5.13%) .NET
5 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.13%) PySpark
5 2 (5.13%) SOAP
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
5 2 (5.13%) WSDL
5 2 (5.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (20.51%) Storage Management
4 7 (17.95%) Analytics
4 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (17.95%) Test Strategy
5 6 (15.38%) API Design
5 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (15.38%) Observability
5 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Task Automation
5 6 (15.38%) Validation
6 5 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (12.82%) Manual Testing
6 5 (12.82%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (10.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) SQL
2 17 (43.59%) Python
3 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.95%) Bicep
5 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 5 (12.82%) Bash
6 5 (12.82%) Java
7 4 (10.26%) C#
7 4 (10.26%) T-SQL
8 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
9 2 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (5.13%) Scala
10 1 (2.56%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) Azure Certification
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.69%) OCP
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) GDPR
2 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.13%) QA
5 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Data Guard
3 3 (7.69%) Istio
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (5.13%) systemd
5 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Databricks
3 5 (12.82%) Splunk
4 4 (10.26%) EMC
4 4 (10.26%) NetApp
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle
4 4 (10.26%) Pure Storage
5 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
7 1 (2.56%) Google