Azure Contracts in Leicester

Microsoft Azure
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 16 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 18.60% 13.83% 29.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 64.00% 46.43% 77.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 30
10th Percentile £425 £319 £313
25th Percentile £448 £323 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £478 £538 £530
90th Percentile £515 £603 £538
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £400 £420
% change year-on-year +15.63% -4.76% -6.67%

All Cloud Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25 28 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 29.07% 29.79% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 38
10th Percentile - £303 £313
25th Percentile £250 £320 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £502 £530
90th Percentile £500 £584 £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £388 £425
% change year-on-year +19.35% -8.82% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £15.63
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.56
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £21.56
90th Percentile - - £22.88
Leicestershire median hourly rate £19.75 £25.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -21.00% +72.41% -21.62%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Leicester

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Leicester.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Leicester

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Leicester over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure App Service
3 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) Power Query
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Android Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 8 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 8 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Blazor
2 1 (6.25%) JWT
2 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (12.50%) VMS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Android Development
2 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 8 (50.00%) Scrum
2 8 (50.00%) TDD
2 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 6 (37.50%) API Integration
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (12.50%) RBAC
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) MobileIron
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Veeam
2 1 (6.25%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Zerto