Azure Cosmos DB Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 130 134
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +69
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 12 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.44% 0.19% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 0.67% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 10
10th Percentile £494 £367 £360
25th Percentile £522 £453 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% +14.29% -8.14%
75th Percentile £638 £531 £497
90th Percentile £683 £588 £505
England median daily rate £540 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -8.09% -2.08% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Azure Cosmos DB 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 863 749 1,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.77% 27.94% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 469 791
10th Percentile £300 £208 £213
25th Percentile £400 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.86% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 30
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.78 £12.68
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.93 £13.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £33.74 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% +84.85% -
75th Percentile £31.94 £35.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £35.59 £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.99% +44.04%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Azure Cosmos DB job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in the Midlands

Azure Cosmos DB
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
West Midlands -8 9 £600 +20.00% 3
East Midlands -4 2 - - 2
Azure Cosmos DB
England

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (50.00%) Collibra
5 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) GitHub
6 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (16.67%) Serverless
8 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (66.67%) Delta Lake
3 6 (50.00%) GIS
3 6 (50.00%) Oracle Database
4 5 (41.67%) Power BI
5 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (8.33%) IBM InfoSphere
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Data Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Software Asset Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) IoT
1 6 (50.00%) SCADA
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
2 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) ETL
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Data Mapping
4 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
6 3 (25.00%) Cost Management
6 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) RBAC
6 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 8 (66.67%) Python
3 6 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (33.33%) Bicep
5 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (41.67%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Databricks
3 6 (50.00%) Informatica
3 6 (50.00%) Oracle
3 6 (50.00%) SAP
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) IBM