Azure Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Microsoft Azure
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 29 34 27
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 17.79% 17.62% 15.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.00% 41.98% 45.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 18
10th Percentile £134 £200 £346
25th Percentile £356 £250 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -14.51%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £500
90th Percentile £542 £515 £561
Merseyside median daily rate £425 £413 £431
% change year-on-year +3.03% -4.35% -11.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
Merseyside median hourly rate - - £17.50

All Cloud Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 50 81 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 30.67% 41.97% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 40 37
10th Percentile £139 £153 £223
25th Percentile £398 £206 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -3.03% -10.81%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £550 £575 £565
Merseyside median daily rate £425 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - £17.44 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile - £26.72 £22.95
90th Percentile - £32.29 £38.01
Merseyside median hourly rate - £17.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year - -10.56% +11.43%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Liverpool over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Liverpool

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 8 (27.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (13.79%) Azure AI
3 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) Vertex AI
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.45%) Figma
5 1 (3.45%) Firebase
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Pinecone
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JUnit
1 4 (13.79%) Postman
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Banking
3 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.24%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
1 7 (24.14%) Senior
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) IT Support
5 3 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) 1st Line Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Migration Manager
7 1 (3.45%) SIEM Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
1 5 (17.24%) JSON
1 5 (17.24%) LangChain
1 5 (17.24%) React
1 5 (17.24%) RESTful
1 5 (17.24%) Spring
1 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
2 4 (13.79%) CrewAI
2 4 (13.79%) jQuery
2 4 (13.79%) POJO
2 4 (13.79%) Thymeleaf
3 3 (10.34%) Gradio
3 3 (10.34%) Streamlit
4 2 (6.90%) Faiss
4 2 (6.90%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.45%) Flutter
5 1 (3.45%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.45%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (13.79%) Autonomous Agent
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.90%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) AI
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
1 6 (20.69%) Data Protection
1 6 (20.69%) DevOps
1 6 (20.69%) Fintech
1 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (20.69%) Information Security
1 6 (20.69%) Microservices
1 6 (20.69%) Server Hardening
2 5 (17.24%) Conversational UI
2 5 (17.24%) LLM
2 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
2 5 (17.24%) MVC
3 4 (13.79%) Agile
3 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (13.79%) Memory Management
3 4 (13.79%) Migration
3 4 (13.79%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
3 4 (13.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) Korn
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.34%) MCP
4 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) GIAC
4 1 (3.45%) MCSA
4 1 (3.45%) MCSE
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 1
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) QRadar
2 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Darktrace
2 5 (17.24%) Zscaler
3 4 (13.79%) Google
3 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.34%) Varonis
5 1 (3.45%) Netlify
5 1 (3.45%) OpenAI