Azure Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 5,026 4,375 5,298
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.88% 15.46% 14.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.59% 42.21% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 2,964 3,958
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 30 64
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.97 £17.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.94
Median hourly rate £46.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -24.21% -9.45%
75th Percentile £74.26 £60.56 £52.12
90th Percentile £94.25 £77.75 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £28.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +59.51% -38.28% +5.84%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure 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 12,086 10,364 12,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.18% 36.62% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,343 6,943 9,151
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 138 245
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.60 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.10 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%
75th Percentile £56.50 £47.17 £53.50
90th Percentile £77.25 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure job vacancy trend in England

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in England

Azure
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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 0 2,709 £543 -1.36% 2,055
North of England 0 653 £468 -1.53% 2,920
South East -4 612 £492 -6.24% 3,179
Midlands -1 433 £525 +5.00% 2,338
West Midlands +2 330 £550 +1.98% 1,209
North West -1 315 £450 - 1,498
South West +4 313 £523 +0.58% 1,406
Yorkshire -1 301 £475 -2.81% 1,197
East of England -1 139 £494 +16.18% 1,838
East Midlands -3 101 £447 -0.67% 990
North East -6 41 £508 +6.84% 235
Azure
UK

Azure
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
1 254 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 170 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 123 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 119 (2.37%) Confluence
5 75 (1.49%) Apache
6 72 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 22 (0.44%) SAS
9 20 (0.40%) CMS
10 16 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 14 (0.28%) nginx
12 12 (0.24%) HCL Notes
13 11 (0.22%) IIS
13 11 (0.22%) Skype for Business
14 9 (0.18%) Appian
14 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 9 (0.18%) Camunda
15 8 (0.16%) GeoServer
16 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
16 7 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 113 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.16%) Trello
9 5 (0.099%) Weka
10 3 (0.060%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.040%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.020%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.020%) Revit
12 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 90 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.16%) Endur
5 8 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.14%) Maximo
6 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.12%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.099%) Cloudability
8 5 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.099%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.080%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 1,822 (36.25%) AWS
2 1,049 (20.87%) GCP
3 992 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
4 671 (13.35%) Power Platform
5 605 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
6 592 (11.78%) Entra ID
7 499 (9.93%) GitHub
8 337 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 292 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
10 288 (5.73%) Serverless
11 233 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
12 220 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 215 (4.28%) SaaS
14 214 (4.26%) Power Automate
15 197 (3.92%) Azure AKS
16 196 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
17 187 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
18 181 (3.60%) PowerApps
19 177 (3.52%) PaaS
20 176 (3.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 360 (7.16%) Firewall
2 212 (4.22%) DNS
3 167 (3.32%) VPN
4 149 (2.96%) Network Security
5 117 (2.33%) DHCP
6 111 (2.21%) WAN
7 95 (1.89%) TCP/IP
8 78 (1.55%) LAN
9 60 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 58 (1.15%) VLAN
11 54 (1.07%) SD-WAN
12 52 (1.03%) HTTP
13 35 (0.70%) BGP
14 31 (0.62%) Internet
15 29 (0.58%) MPLS
16 28 (0.56%) Wireless
17 25 (0.50%) Kerberos
18 24 (0.48%) OSPF
18 24 (0.48%) SAN
19 22 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 485 (9.65%) Power BI
2 281 (5.59%) SQL Server
3 239 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 234 (4.66%) Data Lake
5 203 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
6 164 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 161 (3.20%) NoSQL
8 110 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 108 (2.15%) Metadata
10 78 (1.55%) MongoDB
11 77 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 72 (1.43%) Delta Lake
13 63 (1.25%) Big Data
14 60 (1.19%) Oracle Database
15 59 (1.17%) Tableau
16 58 (1.15%) MySQL
17 53 (1.05%) BigQuery
18 49 (0.97%) Redis
19 42 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
19 42 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 407 (8.10%) Git
2 360 (7.16%) JIRA
3 281 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 200 (3.98%) GitLab
5 79 (1.57%) Postman
6 76 (1.51%) Selenium
7 59 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 50 (0.99%) JUnit
9 38 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
11 36 (0.72%) Maven
12 35 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 32 (0.64%) Cypress.io
13 32 (0.64%) MLflow
14 31 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 30 (0.60%) REST Assured
16 28 (0.56%) JMeter
17 27 (0.54%) Gradle
18 24 (0.48%) Artifactory
19 23 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 1,623 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 928 (18.46%) Finance
3 568 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 480 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.65%) Banking
6 165 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 111 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 84 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 81 (1.61%) Legal
10 79 (1.57%) Marketing
10 79 (1.57%) Retail
11 78 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 76 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 52 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 51 (1.01%) Law
16 49 (0.97%) Financial Institution
17 45 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (0.82%) Military
19 39 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 804 (16.00%) Architect
2 749 (14.90%) Developer
3 537 (10.68%) Senior
4 377 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 366 (7.28%) Lead
6 357 (7.10%) Data Engineer
7 349 (6.94%) Analyst
8 264 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
9 255 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 191 (3.80%) Consultant
11 163 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 150 (2.98%) Security Engineer
13 137 (2.73%) Senior Developer
14 124 (2.47%) Azure Architect
14 124 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
15 119 (2.37%) Platform Engineer
16 103 (2.05%) Data Architect
17 101 (2.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 100 (1.99%) Software Engineer
19 98 (1.95%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (8.16%) .NET
2 331 (6.59%) REST
3 221 (4.40%) React
4 199 (3.96%) RESTful
5 192 (3.82%) Kafka
6 175 (3.48%) PySpark
7 171 (3.40%) Node.js
8 151 (3.00%) Spring
9 145 (2.88%) OAuth
10 143 (2.85%) AngularJS
11 141 (2.81%) HTML
12 129 (2.57%) JSON
13 125 (2.49%) Spring Boot
14 124 (2.47%) SOAP
15 114 (2.27%) CSS
16 113 (2.25%) PyTorch
17 103 (2.05%) TensorFlow
18 99 (1.97%) Middleware
19 97 (1.93%) LDAP
20 88 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 429 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 181 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 161 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 147 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 143 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 130 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 112 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 87 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
10 84 (1.67%) Public Cloud
11 68 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 64 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 60 (1.19%) Replication
14 58 (1.15%) AI Agents
15 55 (1.09%) Data Structures
16 54 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
16 54 (1.07%) Low-Code
17 53 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
18 45 (0.90%) NHS
19 44 (0.88%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 579 (11.52%) Windows
2 331 (6.59%) Linux
3 170 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.17%) Windows 10
5 78 (1.55%) Unix
6 55 (1.09%) VMS
7 48 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 46 (0.92%) Android
9 41 (0.82%) Mac OS
10 27 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 21 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 19 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
13 12 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
14 10 (0.20%) CentOS
14 10 (0.20%) Solaris
15 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.12%) AIX
16 6 (0.12%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,836 (36.53%) DevOps
2 1,453 (28.91%) CI/CD
3 1,271 (25.29%) Agile
4 954 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
5 729 (14.50%) Analytics
6 660 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 611 (12.16%) AI
8 595 (11.84%) Migration
9 565 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
10 512 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 490 (9.75%) Containerisation
12 477 (9.49%) Data Modelling
13 455 (9.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 433 (8.62%) Microservices
15 429 (8.54%) Machine Learning
16 420 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 408 (8.12%) Test Automation
18 395 (7.86%) ETL
19 389 (7.74%) Data Pipeline
20 371 (7.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,285 (25.57%) Python
2 1,111 (22.11%) SQL
3 546 (10.86%) PowerShell
4 461 (9.17%) Java
5 425 (8.46%) C#
6 380 (7.56%) JavaScript
7 244 (4.85%) Bash
8 194 (3.86%) TypeScript
9 143 (2.85%) Bicep
10 82 (1.63%) Go
11 76 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 74 (1.47%) Scala
13 67 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 52 (1.03%) R
15 49 (0.97%) T-SQL
16 47 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 35 (0.70%) C++
18 31 (0.62%) Shell Script
19 27 (0.54%) PHP
20 24 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,177 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 970 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 422 (8.40%) Degree
4 308 (6.13%) Azure Certification
5 166 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 152 (3.02%) CISSP
7 148 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 117 (2.33%) AWS Certification
9 114 (2.27%) DV Cleared
10 95 (1.89%) CISM
11 84 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 73 (1.45%) Master's Degree
13 53 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 39 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.78%) MCP
15 37 (0.74%) CCNP
15 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 31 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (6.41%) GDPR
2 288 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 270 (5.37%) Data Quality
4 265 (5.27%) QA
5 226 (4.50%) NIST
6 92 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 76 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 70 (1.39%) NCSC
9 48 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 37 (0.74%) SLA
11 33 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 32 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 32 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.56%) EU AI Act
14 27 (0.54%) PSD2
15 26 (0.52%) GRC
15 26 (0.52%) WCAG
16 25 (0.50%) PMO
17 19 (0.38%) ISO 20022
18 17 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 662 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 646 (12.85%) Docker
3 156 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 62 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 59 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 49 (0.97%) vSphere
8 20 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.30%) Squid
10 13 (0.26%) DFS Replication
11 10 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 10 (0.20%) Postfix
12 9 (0.18%) KVM
12 9 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
13 8 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 8 (0.16%) zsh
14 7 (0.14%) Snort
15 6 (0.12%) Firmware
15 6 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 741 (14.74%) Terraform
2 729 (14.50%) Kubernetes
3 274 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 249 (4.95%) Ansible
5 132 (2.63%) SCCM
6 128 (2.55%) Grafana
7 123 (2.45%) Prometheus
8 106 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 35 (0.70%) Argo
11 33 (0.66%) Puppet
12 24 (0.48%) Nessus
13 22 (0.44%) Kibana
14 20 (0.40%) Progress Chef
15 17 (0.34%) Istio
15 17 (0.34%) vRealize
16 16 (0.32%) Nmap
16 16 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
16 16 (0.32%) vCenter Server
17 15 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 1,656 (32.95%) Microsoft
2 495 (9.85%) Databricks
3 319 (6.35%) Oracle
4 276 (5.49%) Google
5 236 (4.70%) ServiceNow
6 204 (4.06%) VMware
7 156 (3.10%) Splunk
8 147 (2.92%) Cisco
9 139 (2.77%) SAP
10 113 (2.25%) OpenAI
11 106 (2.11%) Salesforce
12 102 (2.03%) CyberArk
13 83 (1.65%) Palo Alto
14 69 (1.37%) Citrix
15 60 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
15 60 (1.19%) Red Hat
16 57 (1.13%) Foundry
17 54 (1.07%) IBM
18 53 (1.05%) Dynatrace
19 52 (1.03%) Okta
13,498 Azure jobs in England