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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 160 197
Rank change year-on-year -32 +37 +50
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.024% 0.098% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.064% 0.31% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £531 £508
25th Percentile £513 £561 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £531
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +17.65% +18.06%
75th Percentile £538 £656 £561
90th Percentile - £668 £569
England median daily rate £425 £605 £610
% change year-on-year -29.75% -0.82% -6.15%

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 1,555 1,304 1,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.08% 31.99% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 829 1,318
10th Percentile £277 £300 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £673
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 69
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £51.13 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.77 £70.98 £62.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

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 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
North West -16 1 £525 -19.23% 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks