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

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4,941 4,487 5,550
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.77% 15.46% 14.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.37% 42.20% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,466 3,028 4,164
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% -3.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 33 64
10th Percentile £16.25 £20.69 £17.75
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £20.94
Median hourly rate £45.73 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.66% -24.21% -9.45%
75th Percentile £69.69 £60.75 £52.12
90th Percentile £94.88 £75.94 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £45.73 £29.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +56.34% -36.66% +7.40%

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 11,944 10,633 13,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.63% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,209 7,106 9,556
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
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 £613 £650 £640
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 297 138 249
10th Percentile £14.90 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.94 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +33.12% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.67 £69.71 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.97% +16.00% +11.11%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 2,638 £540 -1.82% 1,017
North of England 0 644 £470 -3.74% 592
South East -4 601 £500 -4.76% 822
Midlands -1 446 £525 +5.00% 335
West Midlands 0 333 £550 +4.76% 209
North West -1 312 £450 -6.78% 324
South West +5 306 £512 -2.11% 248
Yorkshire -1 303 £482 -3.60% 200
East of England -3 149 £500 +17.65% 234
East Midlands +1 110 £450 - 124
North East -12 33 £515 +13.44% 80
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
1 259 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 173 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 121 (2.45%) Confluence
4 119 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 75 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 74 (1.50%) Apache
7 25 (0.51%) SAS
8 23 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 22 (0.45%) CMS
10 16 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 14 (0.28%) nginx
12 11 (0.22%) Anypoint
12 11 (0.22%) IIS
12 11 (0.22%) Skype for Business
13 10 (0.20%) HCL Notes
14 9 (0.18%) Camunda
15 8 (0.16%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.14%) Appian
16 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 116 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 9 (0.18%) Trello
8 5 (0.10%) Weka
9 2 (0.040%) Windchill
10 1 (0.020%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.020%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.020%) Revit
10 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 87 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 10 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.18%) Endur
7 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
9 6 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.12%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.10%) Cloudability
11 4 (0.081%) Maximo
11 4 (0.081%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.081%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,815 (36.73%) AWS
2 1,055 (21.35%) GCP
3 964 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
4 631 (12.77%) Power Platform
5 595 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
6 585 (11.84%) Entra ID
7 466 (9.43%) GitHub
8 316 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 280 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
10 270 (5.46%) Serverless
11 222 (4.49%) SaaS
12 221 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
13 203 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 202 (4.09%) Power Automate
15 192 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
16 190 (3.85%) Azure AKS
17 186 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
18 178 (3.60%) PowerApps
19 177 (3.58%) PaaS
20 170 (3.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 361 (7.31%) Firewall
2 206 (4.17%) DNS
3 167 (3.38%) VPN
4 139 (2.81%) Network Security
5 110 (2.23%) DHCP
6 104 (2.10%) WAN
7 89 (1.80%) TCP/IP
8 71 (1.44%) LAN
9 57 (1.15%) VLAN
10 54 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
11 53 (1.07%) HTTP
12 51 (1.03%) SD-WAN
13 35 (0.71%) SAN
14 34 (0.69%) BGP
15 31 (0.63%) Internet
16 29 (0.59%) MPLS
17 25 (0.51%) Wireless
18 24 (0.49%) SSL
19 23 (0.47%) OSPF
20 22 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (9.15%) Power BI
2 261 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 217 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
4 205 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 160 (3.24%) NoSQL
7 156 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 107 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 96 (1.94%) Metadata
10 82 (1.66%) MongoDB
11 69 (1.40%) Delta Lake
12 67 (1.36%) Big Data
13 64 (1.30%) Tableau
14 63 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 60 (1.21%) MySQL
16 58 (1.17%) Oracle Database
17 53 (1.07%) BigQuery
18 48 (0.97%) Redis
19 43 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
20 37 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 404 (8.18%) Git
2 355 (7.18%) JIRA
3 289 (5.85%) Jenkins
4 204 (4.13%) GitLab
5 81 (1.64%) Selenium
6 79 (1.60%) Postman
7 66 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 50 (1.01%) JUnit
9 41 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
11 36 (0.73%) Maven
12 35 (0.71%) CircleCI
13 33 (0.67%) Bitbucket
14 32 (0.65%) Cypress.io
15 29 (0.59%) REST Assured
16 28 (0.57%) JMeter
16 28 (0.57%) MLflow
17 26 (0.53%) Gradle
18 23 (0.47%) SoapUI
19 22 (0.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,600 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 914 (18.50%) Finance
3 549 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 477 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
5 342 (6.92%) Banking
6 156 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 118 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 89 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 80 (1.62%) Retail
10 79 (1.60%) Marketing
11 77 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 76 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 75 (1.52%) Legal
14 66 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.09%) Law
16 52 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 48 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 45 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
19 42 (0.85%) Front Office
20 39 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 798 (16.15%) Architect
2 751 (15.20%) Developer
3 527 (10.67%) Senior
4 354 (7.16%) Lead
5 353 (7.14%) Analyst
6 352 (7.12%) Azure Engineer
7 337 (6.82%) Data Engineer
8 281 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
9 233 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
10 188 (3.80%) Consultant
11 156 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 152 (3.08%) Security Engineer
13 138 (2.79%) Senior Developer
14 129 (2.61%) Azure Architect
15 126 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
16 118 (2.39%) Platform Engineer
17 97 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 96 (1.94%) Azure Data Engineer
19 93 (1.88%) Data Architect
19 93 (1.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (8.22%) .NET
2 301 (6.09%) REST
3 216 (4.37%) React
4 204 (4.13%) RESTful
5 191 (3.87%) Kafka
6 171 (3.46%) Node.js
7 161 (3.26%) PySpark
8 151 (3.06%) OAuth
8 151 (3.06%) Spring
9 142 (2.87%) HTML
10 138 (2.79%) AngularJS
11 132 (2.67%) JSON
12 125 (2.53%) Spring Boot
13 114 (2.31%) CSS
14 109 (2.21%) PyTorch
15 108 (2.19%) SOAP
16 99 (2.00%) TensorFlow
17 95 (1.92%) Middleware
18 93 (1.88%) SAML
19 88 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 412 (8.34%) Cloud Native
2 175 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 164 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 154 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 130 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 119 (2.41%) Data Centre
6 119 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 110 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 92 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
9 73 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 68 (1.38%) Algorithms
11 66 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 63 (1.28%) Replication
13 60 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
14 53 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 53 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 51 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 51 (1.03%) Low-Code
16 48 (0.97%) PKI
17 43 (0.87%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 561 (11.35%) Windows
2 337 (6.82%) Linux
3 171 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 101 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 84 (1.70%) Unix
6 49 (0.99%) VMS
7 46 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 45 (0.91%) Android
9 43 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 31 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 22 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 16 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (0.22%) Solaris
13 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
14 10 (0.20%) CentOS
15 6 (0.12%) AIX
15 6 (0.12%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.081%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,779 (36.00%) DevOps
2 1,427 (28.88%) CI/CD
3 1,278 (25.87%) Agile
4 909 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
5 692 (14.01%) Analytics
6 636 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 586 (11.86%) Migration
8 582 (11.78%) AI
9 525 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
10 507 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 485 (9.82%) Containerisation
12 441 (8.93%) Data Modelling
13 434 (8.78%) Microservices
13 434 (8.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 420 (8.50%) Machine Learning
15 404 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 404 (8.18%) Test Automation
16 370 (7.49%) Data Pipeline
17 356 (7.21%) Roadmaps
18 355 (7.18%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,268 (25.66%) Python
2 1,070 (21.66%) SQL
3 540 (10.93%) PowerShell
4 470 (9.51%) Java
5 419 (8.48%) C#
6 374 (7.57%) JavaScript
7 250 (5.06%) Bash
8 188 (3.80%) TypeScript
9 139 (2.81%) Bicep
10 87 (1.76%) Go
11 71 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 69 (1.40%) Scala
13 67 (1.36%) PL/SQL
14 54 (1.09%) R
15 42 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 42 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 40 (0.81%) C++
17 32 (0.65%) Shell Script
18 27 (0.55%) PHP
19 26 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,107 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 900 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 427 (8.64%) Degree
4 299 (6.05%) Azure Certification
5 165 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 152 (3.08%) CISSP
7 150 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 119 (2.41%) AWS Certification
9 113 (2.29%) DV Cleared
10 92 (1.86%) CISM
11 84 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
12 75 (1.52%) Master's Degree
13 50 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
14 40 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 38 (0.77%) MCP
16 37 (0.75%) CCNP
17 33 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
18 32 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.65%) PMI Certification
19 28 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (6.74%) GDPR
2 297 (6.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 267 (5.40%) QA
4 236 (4.78%) Data Quality
5 231 (4.68%) NIST
6 95 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 79 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 66 (1.34%) NCSC
9 48 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 40 (0.81%) HIPAA
11 35 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 29 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 29 (0.59%) SLA
13 28 (0.57%) EU AI Act
14 27 (0.55%) GRC
15 26 (0.53%) WCAG
16 25 (0.51%) PSD2
17 19 (0.38%) PMO
18 18 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 17 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 636 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 626 (12.67%) Docker
3 157 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 64 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 58 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (0.93%) vSphere
7 23 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.32%) Squid
9 10 (0.20%) DFS Replication
9 10 (0.20%) Dovecot
9 10 (0.20%) Postfix
9 10 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.16%) KVM
11 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.16%) Snort
11 8 (0.16%) zsh
12 6 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 719 (14.55%) Terraform
2 709 (14.35%) Kubernetes
3 274 (5.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 246 (4.98%) Ansible
5 128 (2.59%) SCCM
6 121 (2.45%) Grafana
7 119 (2.41%) Prometheus
8 109 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (0.77%) Puppet
10 35 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (0.63%) Argo
12 26 (0.53%) Nessus
13 24 (0.49%) Progress Chef
14 23 (0.47%) Kibana
15 21 (0.43%) NetBackup
16 19 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
17 18 (0.36%) Nmap
17 18 (0.36%) vRealize
18 16 (0.32%) Podman
19 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,614 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 479 (9.69%) Databricks
3 321 (6.50%) Oracle
4 272 (5.50%) Google
5 233 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 206 (4.17%) VMware
7 151 (3.06%) Splunk
8 149 (3.02%) Cisco
9 140 (2.83%) SAP
10 111 (2.25%) OpenAI
10 111 (2.25%) Salesforce
11 86 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 82 (1.66%) Citrix
13 75 (1.52%) Palo Alto
14 56 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 54 (1.09%) Foundry
16 53 (1.07%) IBM
17 52 (1.05%) Okta
18 49 (0.99%) Dynatrace
18 49 (0.99%) F5
2,830 Azure jobs in England