Azure Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Microsoft Azure
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 2 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 12.50% 4.76% 33.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 80.00% 15.38% 82.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 21
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £431 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -29.69%
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - £700
Suffolk median daily rate £275 £220 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -51.11% -29.69%

All Cloud Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5 13 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 15.63% 30.95% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 28
10th Percentile £404 £276 £347
25th Percentile £466 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -19.44% -29.69%
75th Percentile £554 £475 £588
90th Percentile £652 £510 £656
Suffolk median daily rate £325 £225 £450
% change year-on-year +44.44% -50.00% -29.69%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Ipswich

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Ipswich over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Ipswich

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) French Language
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Express.js
3 1 (25.00%) FIDO
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) MediatR
3 1 (25.00%) NgRx
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) RxJS
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft