Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Storage
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 204 158 184
Rank change year-on-year -46 +26 +45
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 7 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.33% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £360 £520 £508
25th Percentile £372 £536 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £573 £531
Median % change year-on-year -30.13% +7.76% -3.41%
75th Percentile £419 £611 £561
90th Percentile £428 £627 £569
England median daily rate £428 £605 £605
% change year-on-year -29.34% - -3.20%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,797 1,203 1,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 38.02% 33.49% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,308 791 1,199
10th Percentile £214 £263 £257
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £663 £650
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 23 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.05 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.61 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £31.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year +35.07% +34.46% -4.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.02 £94.81 £55.00
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 North of England

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

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Storage

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire -37 6 £400 -30.13% 1
North West -27 1 - -
Azure Storage
England

Azure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (71.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Apigee
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (28.57%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Tester
2 4 (57.14%) Security Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) JWT
1 5 (71.43%) OAuth
1 5 (71.43%) SAML
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
1 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) API Management
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Community of Practice
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Istio
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace