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

 6 months to
7 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,798 4,654 5,745
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.49% 15.35% 14.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.64% 42.22% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 3,148 4,285
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £420 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 69
10th Percentile £15.80 £21.06 £17.75
25th Percentile £25.74 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -24.21% -6.71%
75th Percentile £77.38 £60.56 £58.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.16 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.05% -33.95% +31.94%

All Cloud 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 11,806 11,023 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.35% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 7,372 9,861
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 270
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.94 £55.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £69.98 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +1 2,572 £539 -2.05% 1,136
North of England -2 610 £475 -5.00% 1,404
South East -4 573 £500 -4.76% 1,659
Midlands -1 434 £534 +2.69% 1,104
West Midlands 0 327 £550 +4.76% 570
South West +6 308 £509 -0.25% 682
North West 0 300 £450 -10.00% 713
Yorkshire -2 282 £482 -3.60% 573
East of England +3 152 £500 +17.65% 785
East Midlands -2 104 £450 -10.00% 483
North East -9 32 £515 +13.44% 128
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
1 251 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 170 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 124 (2.58%) Confluence
4 111 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 75 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 73 (1.52%) Apache
7 26 (0.54%) SAS
8 22 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 21 (0.44%) CMS
10 16 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 14 (0.29%) nginx
12 11 (0.23%) IIS
13 10 (0.21%) Skype for Business
14 8 (0.17%) Camunda
14 8 (0.17%) HCL Notes
14 8 (0.17%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.15%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
15 7 (0.15%) GeoServer
16 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 114 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 38 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 9 (0.19%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Weka
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.042%) Windchill
11 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.021%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.021%) Revit
11 1 (0.021%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 86 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 11 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.19%) Endur
8 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 8 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 7 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.10%) Cloudability
12 4 (0.083%) Maximo
12 4 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.083%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
12 4 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,744 (36.35%) AWS
2 1,001 (20.86%) GCP
3 942 (19.63%) Azure DevOps
4 629 (13.11%) Power Platform
5 570 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
6 561 (11.69%) Entra ID
7 447 (9.32%) GitHub
8 300 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 265 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
10 261 (5.44%) Serverless
11 217 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
12 216 (4.50%) SaaS
13 199 (4.15%) Power Automate
14 195 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 194 (4.04%) Azure AKS
16 188 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
17 183 (3.81%) PowerApps
18 176 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
19 171 (3.56%) PaaS
19 171 (3.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 341 (7.11%) Firewall
2 191 (3.98%) DNS
3 149 (3.11%) VPN
4 126 (2.63%) Network Security
5 102 (2.13%) DHCP
6 100 (2.08%) WAN
7 82 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 66 (1.38%) LAN
9 54 (1.13%) VLAN
10 53 (1.10%) HTTP
10 53 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
11 51 (1.06%) SD-WAN
12 37 (0.77%) SAN
13 31 (0.65%) BGP
13 31 (0.65%) Internet
14 29 (0.60%) MPLS
15 24 (0.50%) SSL
15 24 (0.50%) Wireless
16 21 (0.44%) VSAN
17 20 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (9.34%) Power BI
2 252 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 210 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 200 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (4.09%) Data Lake
6 159 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 148 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 105 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 100 (2.08%) Metadata
10 80 (1.67%) MongoDB
11 67 (1.40%) Delta Lake
12 66 (1.38%) Big Data
13 63 (1.31%) Tableau
14 59 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (1.15%) MySQL
16 54 (1.13%) BigQuery
17 53 (1.10%) Oracle Database
18 49 (1.02%) Redis
19 38 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
20 37 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 393 (8.19%) Git
2 340 (7.09%) JIRA
3 265 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 185 (3.86%) GitLab
5 73 (1.52%) Selenium
6 70 (1.46%) Postman
7 63 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 49 (1.02%) JUnit
9 36 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
10 35 (0.73%) Maven
11 33 (0.69%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.67%) Bitbucket
13 31 (0.65%) CircleCI
14 29 (0.60%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.60%) MLflow
15 28 (0.58%) JMeter
16 26 (0.54%) Gradle
17 22 (0.46%) ERwin
17 22 (0.46%) SoapUI
17 22 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,553 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 916 (19.09%) Finance
3 543 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 453 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 337 (7.02%) Banking
6 158 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 121 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 86 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 80 (1.67%) Marketing
10 78 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 76 (1.58%) Retail
12 74 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 71 (1.48%) Legal
14 70 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 55 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 51 (1.06%) Law
17 46 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 43 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
19 42 (0.88%) Front Office
20 38 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 774 (16.13%) Architect
2 756 (15.76%) Developer
3 509 (10.61%) Senior
4 362 (7.54%) Analyst
5 341 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
6 339 (7.07%) Lead
7 318 (6.63%) Data Engineer
8 279 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 224 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 187 (3.90%) Consultant
11 153 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 151 (3.15%) Security Engineer
13 139 (2.90%) Senior Developer
14 128 (2.67%) Azure Architect
15 124 (2.58%) Cloud Engineer
16 117 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
17 96 (2.00%) Business Analyst
17 96 (2.00%) Data Architect
17 96 (2.00%) Support Engineer
18 95 (1.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (8.19%) .NET
2 280 (5.84%) REST
3 209 (4.36%) React
4 201 (4.19%) RESTful
5 187 (3.90%) Kafka
6 160 (3.33%) Node.js
7 155 (3.23%) Spring
8 152 (3.17%) OAuth
9 147 (3.06%) PySpark
10 137 (2.86%) HTML
11 136 (2.83%) AngularJS
12 130 (2.71%) JSON
13 126 (2.63%) Spring Boot
14 107 (2.23%) CSS
14 107 (2.23%) SOAP
15 102 (2.13%) PyTorch
16 94 (1.96%) Middleware
17 92 (1.92%) SAML
17 92 (1.92%) TensorFlow
18 85 (1.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 400 (8.34%) Cloud Native
2 171 (3.56%) Onboarding
3 161 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 143 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 125 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 112 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 111 (2.31%) Security Posture
8 98 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 90 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 71 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 69 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 67 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 61 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 58 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 58 (1.21%) Replication
15 54 (1.13%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.08%) Data Structures
17 49 (1.02%) Low-Code
18 45 (0.94%) PKI
19 44 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 548 (11.42%) Windows
2 328 (6.84%) Linux
3 174 (3.63%) Windows Server
4 92 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 84 (1.75%) Unix
6 47 (0.98%) Android
6 47 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 44 (0.92%) VMS
8 36 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 26 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 22 (0.46%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.23%) Solaris
12 11 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
14 9 (0.19%) CentOS
15 6 (0.13%) AIX
15 6 (0.13%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.083%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,722 (35.89%) DevOps
2 1,366 (28.47%) CI/CD
3 1,270 (26.47%) Agile
4 874 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
5 670 (13.96%) Analytics
6 611 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 575 (11.98%) AI
8 558 (11.63%) Migration
9 518 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
10 503 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 480 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 429 (8.94%) Data Modelling
13 419 (8.73%) Microservices
14 418 (8.71%) Machine Learning
15 407 (8.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 384 (8.00%) Test Automation
17 381 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 351 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
19 350 (7.29%) Scrum
20 345 (7.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,231 (25.66%) Python
2 1,037 (21.61%) SQL
3 516 (10.75%) PowerShell
4 456 (9.50%) Java
5 420 (8.75%) C#
6 369 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 240 (5.00%) Bash
8 183 (3.81%) TypeScript
9 130 (2.71%) Bicep
10 84 (1.75%) Go
11 69 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 68 (1.42%) Scala
13 64 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 53 (1.10%) R
15 43 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 42 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 39 (0.81%) C++
18 26 (0.54%) Groovy
18 26 (0.54%) Perl
19 25 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,061 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 864 (18.01%) SC Cleared
3 411 (8.57%) Degree
4 281 (5.86%) Azure Certification
5 152 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 151 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 150 (3.13%) CISSP
8 121 (2.52%) AWS Certification
9 116 (2.42%) DV Cleared
10 92 (1.92%) CISM
11 79 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 71 (1.48%) Master's Degree
13 47 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 40 (0.83%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.77%) MCP
16 33 (0.69%) CCNP
17 31 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
18 30 (0.63%) PMI Certification
19 28 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (6.65%) GDPR
2 286 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 252 (5.25%) QA
4 231 (4.81%) NIST
5 222 (4.63%) Data Quality
6 90 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 77 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 65 (1.35%) NCSC
9 45 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 42 (0.88%) HIPAA
11 34 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 28 (0.58%) EU AI Act
12 28 (0.58%) GRC
13 27 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 26 (0.54%) SLA
15 25 (0.52%) PSD2
16 24 (0.50%) WCAG
17 18 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 18 (0.38%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 605 (12.61%) Docker
2 604 (12.59%) Active Directory
3 152 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.29%) Hyper-V
4 62 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 61 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (0.94%) vSphere
7 22 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.33%) Squid
9 11 (0.23%) DFS Replication
9 11 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 11 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.21%) Dovecot
10 10 (0.21%) Postfix
11 9 (0.19%) NFS
12 8 (0.17%) KVM
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.17%) Snort
12 8 (0.17%) zsh
13 6 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 685 (14.28%) Kubernetes
2 684 (14.26%) Terraform
3 266 (5.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 231 (4.81%) Ansible
5 123 (2.56%) SCCM
6 110 (2.29%) Prometheus
7 109 (2.27%) Grafana
8 104 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (0.75%) Puppet
10 32 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (0.65%) Argo
12 25 (0.52%) Nessus
13 22 (0.46%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.44%) NetBackup
15 20 (0.42%) Kibana
16 18 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
16 18 (0.38%) vRealize
17 17 (0.35%) Nmap
18 15 (0.31%) Podman
18 15 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,567 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 460 (9.59%) Databricks
3 305 (6.36%) Oracle
4 256 (5.34%) Google
5 212 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 199 (4.15%) VMware
7 145 (3.02%) Cisco
8 136 (2.83%) Splunk
9 132 (2.75%) SAP
10 110 (2.29%) OpenAI
10 110 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 77 (1.60%) Citrix
12 75 (1.56%) CyberArk
13 74 (1.54%) Palo Alto
14 54 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 52 (1.08%) Foundry
16 49 (1.02%) IBM
17 48 (1.00%) F5
18 47 (0.98%) Zscaler
19 45 (0.94%) Okta
6,351 Azure jobs in England