Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Storage
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 120 133
Rank change year-on-year -40 +13 +60
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.087% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.28% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +29.03% -32.61%
75th Percentile £459 - £394
90th Percentile £469 - -
England median daily rate £428 £605 £605
% change year-on-year -29.34% - -3.20%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,045 716 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.20% 31.16% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 472 699
10th Percentile £289 £210 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £492 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +6.85% -8.00%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £559
90th Percentile £675 £684 £675
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.05 £12.30
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.87% +66.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £65.30 £42.74 £88.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Azure Storage
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 Storage within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands -33 1 £390 -22.00%
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
Azure Storage
England

Azure Storage
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft