Azure Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft Azure
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 164 101 106
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 8.37% 10.46% 7.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.93% 52.60% 46.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 72 90
10th Percentile £314 £381 £360
25th Percentile £500 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% +3.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £667 £613 £600
90th Percentile £735 £686 £653
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.24 - -
Median hourly rate £37.75 - -
75th Percentile £38.25 - -
90th Percentile £47.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £73.22 £32.77 £53.00
% change year-on-year +123.42% -38.17% -24.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 382 192 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.49% 19.88% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 139 163
10th Percentile £263 £355 £360
25th Percentile £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £609 £634
90th Percentile £735 £654 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £492 £513
% change year-on-year +1.57% -3.95% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 3
10th Percentile £15.50 £32.40 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.24 £67.50 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% +281.57% -27.80%
75th Percentile £38.25 £73.75 -
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
South East median hourly rate £61.74 £18.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +228.06% -51.12% +36.72%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Hampshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Hampshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Southampton +9 34 £575 -4.17% 28
Portsmouth +7 26 £575 +48.39% 9
Basingstoke -9 22 £553 -3.91% 18
Havant -3 21 £600 +14.29% 3
Farnborough -20 16 £300 -41.46% 23
Andover -10 11 £750 +252.94% 6
Fareham -3 7 £650 +43.65% 10
Eastleigh -6 4 £525 +5.00%
Romsey - 3 £690 -
Hook -2 1 £510 +59.38% 4
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 12 (7.32%) Confluence
2 6 (3.66%) Documentum
3 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.44%) Apache
4 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.83%) IIS
5 3 (1.83%) nginx
5 3 (1.83%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.83%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.22%) CMS
6 2 (1.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (43.29%) AWS
2 42 (25.61%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (20.73%) Entra ID
4 21 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (8.54%) GCP
6 13 (7.93%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.93%) Serverless
7 9 (5.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (4.88%) GitHub
9 7 (4.27%) Azure Functions
9 7 (4.27%) IaaS
10 6 (3.66%) Cloudflare
10 6 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.66%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.66%) PowerApps
11 5 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.44%) Azure Batch
12 4 (2.44%) Azure Databricks
12 4 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.10%) Firewall
2 9 (5.49%) DNS
3 6 (3.66%) DHCP
3 6 (3.66%) VLAN
4 5 (3.05%) SAN
5 4 (2.44%) MQTT
5 4 (2.44%) Network Security
6 3 (1.83%) NAS
6 3 (1.83%) VPN
6 3 (1.83%) Wireless
7 2 (1.22%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.61%) LAN
8 1 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.61%) SONET
8 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.10%) Power BI
2 8 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.83%) MySQL
5 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.22%) Big Data
6 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.61%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Git
1 16 (9.76%) JIRA
2 13 (7.93%) GitLab
3 5 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.44%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) JUnit
6 1 (0.61%) NUnit
6 1 (0.61%) Postman
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 51 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.71%) Finance
4 7 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.66%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.66%) Legal
5 6 (3.66%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.83%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.22%) Back Office
7 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (21.95%) Architect
2 22 (13.41%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.20%) Developer
4 17 (10.37%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (5.49%) Analyst
7 9 (5.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (4.88%) Databricks Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.27%) Principal Architect
10 6 (3.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Documentum Architect
10 6 (3.66%) Java Architect
10 6 (3.66%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Developer
11 5 (3.05%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.85%) Terraform
2 17 (10.37%) .NET
3 15 (9.15%) Kafka
4 11 (6.71%) REST
5 8 (4.88%) ADO
6 7 (4.27%) Middleware
6 7 (4.27%) OAuth
7 6 (3.66%) JSON
7 6 (3.66%) SAML
8 5 (3.05%) LDAP
8 5 (3.05%) OpenID
8 5 (3.05%) React
9 4 (2.44%) gRPC
9 4 (2.44%) Keycloak
9 4 (2.44%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.44%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (2.44%) RESTful
10 3 (1.83%) LAMP
10 3 (1.83%) SOAP
10 3 (1.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.80%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.93%) Onboarding
3 12 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.27%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.22%) IoT
9 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.22%) PKI
9 2 (1.22%) PMI
9 2 (1.22%) Replication
10 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.44%) Windows
2 35 (21.34%) Linux
3 16 (9.76%) Windows Server
4 14 (8.54%) CentOS
4 14 (8.54%) Ubuntu
4 14 (8.54%) Windows 10
5 8 (4.88%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.44%) Android
7 4 (2.44%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.22%) AIX
9 2 (1.22%) HPUX
9 2 (1.22%) Solaris
9 2 (1.22%) Unix
9 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.85%) DevOps
2 57 (34.76%) Agile
3 52 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 32 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (17.68%) DevSecOps
6 27 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (15.24%) Scrum
8 23 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (12.80%) Containerisation
11 20 (12.20%) Sprint Planning
12 19 (11.59%) Migration
13 18 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (10.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 17 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 16 (9.76%) AI
15 16 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 15 (9.15%) Project Delivery
16 15 (9.15%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.66%) PowerShell
2 43 (26.22%) Python
3 20 (12.20%) Bash
4 16 (9.76%) Java
5 14 (8.54%) SQL
6 12 (7.32%) C#
7 11 (6.71%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.66%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.05%) Bicep
10 4 (2.44%) Rust
10 4 (2.44%) Scala
10 4 (2.44%) X++
11 3 (1.83%) C++
11 3 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (48.17%) Security Cleared
2 49 (29.88%) SC Cleared
3 35 (21.34%) DV Cleared
4 22 (13.41%) Degree
5 10 (6.10%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.49%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.44%) CISSP
9 3 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.83%) CISM
10 2 (1.22%) CAPM
10 2 (1.22%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.61%) CEH
11 1 (0.61%) GCFA
11 1 (0.61%) GCIH
11 1 (0.61%) PMP
11 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) NCSC
2 6 (3.66%) GDPR
2 6 (3.66%) PMO
3 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.22%) NIST
4 2 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 28 (17.07%) Active Directory
2 25 (15.24%) Docker
3 10 (6.10%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.05%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.44%) vSphere
7 3 (1.83%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.83%) Postfix
7 3 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (20.12%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.41%) Ansible
3 12 (7.32%) Puppet
4 11 (6.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (4.88%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.66%) Grafana
6 6 (3.66%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.05%) Podman
7 5 (3.05%) SCCM
8 3 (1.83%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.22%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.61%) Argo
10 1 (0.61%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (39.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.37%) Databricks
3 10 (6.10%) VMware
4 8 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.66%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.05%) Dell
6 5 (3.05%) Google
6 5 (3.05%) Qualys
6 5 (3.05%) Tenable
7 4 (2.44%) HP
7 4 (2.44%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.83%) Cisco
8 3 (1.83%) F5
8 3 (1.83%) Foundry
8 3 (1.83%) Juniper
8 3 (1.83%) Palantir
8 3 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.83%) SAP
9 2 (1.22%) NetApp
9 2 (1.22%) Oracle