Azure Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Microsoft Azure
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 8 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 17 9 43
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 9.88% 10.34% 24.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.64% 37.50% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 38
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £343 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £500 £550 £529
90th Percentile £605 £630 £530
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.81% +2.78% -14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 44 24 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 25.58% 27.59% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 62
10th Percentile £360 £180 £289
25th Percentile £404 £219 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £360 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.47% -20.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £530
90th Percentile £625 £625 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £450 £453
% change year-on-year -3.22% -0.66% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £20.30 - £12.23
25th Percentile £20.38 - £12.56
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £13.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £24.56 - £17.19
90th Percentile £25.20 - £21.13
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £29.00 £17.61
% change year-on-year -29.31% +64.73% +13.58%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Leicestershire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Leicester +1 13 £450 -10.00% 87
Loughborough - 1 £360 - 3
Azure
East Midlands

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
2 4 (23.53%) IaaS
2 4 (23.53%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (11.76%) dbt
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) Power Query
1 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (17.65%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Android Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Test Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle Financials Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) ERP Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) ADO
2 3 (17.65%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (17.65%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Android
1 3 (17.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Scrum
5 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Android Development
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
7 3 (17.65%) ERP
7 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) TDD
7 3 (17.65%) Test Planning
7 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
7 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Kotlin
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Databricks
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft