Azure Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft Azure
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 33 42 21
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 13.47% 17.57% 11.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.77% 42.42% 38.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 13
10th Percentile £133 £165 £338
25th Percentile £134 £209 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% - -25.58%
75th Percentile £458 £455 £494
90th Percentile £510 £500 £545
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -62.25% - -30.03%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 65 99 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.53% 41.42% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 51 32
10th Percentile £134 £145 £202
25th Percentile £150 £169 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £458 £488 £502
90th Percentile £518 £600 £599
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -5.89% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - £17.44 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £26.72 £20.75
90th Percentile - £32.29 £21.50
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -16.17% +27.06% +4.93%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Merseyside

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 6 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
Liverpool -2 31 £363 -5.23% 32
St Helens - 2 £275 -
Azure
North West

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 10 (30.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Azure AI
3 4 (12.12%) Azure AKS
3 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.12%) Vertex AI
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.03%) Figma
6 1 (3.03%) Firebase
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) IaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.03%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Pinecone
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JUnit
1 4 (12.12%) Postman
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Automotive
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Senior
2 7 (21.21%) Support Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Developer
3 6 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) IT Support
3 6 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Lead UX Designer
8 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
1 5 (15.15%) JSON
1 5 (15.15%) LangChain
1 5 (15.15%) React
1 5 (15.15%) RESTful
1 5 (15.15%) Spring
1 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.12%) CrewAI
2 4 (12.12%) jQuery
2 4 (12.12%) POJO
2 4 (12.12%) Thymeleaf
3 3 (9.09%) Gradio
3 3 (9.09%) Streamlit
4 2 (6.06%) Faiss
4 2 (6.06%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.03%) D3.js
5 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.03%) Flask
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (12.12%) Autonomous Agent
2 4 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.09%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.06%) Low-Code
4 2 (6.06%) PKI
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (45.45%) Windows
2 10 (30.30%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Customer Service
2 8 (24.24%) Data Protection
3 7 (21.21%) AI
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (18.18%) Microservices
5 5 (15.15%) Agile
5 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
5 5 (15.15%) Conversational UI
5 5 (15.15%) LLM
5 5 (15.15%) Machine Learning
5 5 (15.15%) MVC
6 4 (12.12%) API Development
6 4 (12.12%) Memory Management
6 4 (12.12%) Multi-Agent System
6 4 (12.12%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (12.12%) Semantic Search
6 4 (12.12%) Unit Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Java
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) C#
3 1 (3.03%) Go
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) MCP
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) GIAC
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
2 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 1
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.18%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) SCCM
2 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.12%) Google
4 3 (9.09%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.06%) Bomgar
5 2 (6.06%) Darktrace
5 2 (6.06%) iManage
6 1 (3.03%) Citrix
6 1 (3.03%) Netlify
6 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.03%) Sophos
6 1 (3.03%) VMware