Azure Storage Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Storage
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 94 117
Rank change year-on-year +19 +23 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.13% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 0.36% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 £494 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £435
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +17.82% -17.14%
75th Percentile £547 £531 £443
90th Percentile £564 - -
North West median daily rate £488 £513 £435
% change year-on-year -4.88% +17.82% -17.54%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Azure Storage 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in Manchester

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in Manchester

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware