Azure Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Azure
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Azure 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 18 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure 27 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 10.47% 11.18% 4.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.14% 42.86% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 6
10th Percentile £363 £261 £213
25th Percentile £384 £319 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £356 £398
Median % change year-on-year +22.47% -10.44% -24.29%
75th Percentile £480 £506 £400
90th Percentile £537 £670 £463
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -0.11% +5.88% -19.05%

All Cloud Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 84 42 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 32.56% 26.09% 50.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 30 71
10th Percentile £344 £294 £213
25th Percentile £368 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £422 £481
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -12.21% -3.80%
75th Percentile £475 £526 £519
90th Percentile £537 £703 £534
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £450 £453
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.66% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.24%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £29.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -29.31% +65.71% +12.90%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Northamptonshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -5 26 £436 +15.27% 31
Azure
East Midlands

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (92.59%) AWS
2 18 (66.67%) GCP
3 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (18.52%) Big Data
3 4 (14.81%) Metadata
4 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.41%) Apache Hive
5 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 18 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Data Scientist
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Gen AI Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Identity Management Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Payments Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (3.70%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.70%) Programme Director
5 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Kafka
1 3 (11.11%) Pandas
1 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (11.11%) REST
1 3 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 3 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.41%) FastAPI
2 2 (7.41%) Flask
2 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
2 2 (7.41%) LDAP
2 2 (7.41%) OAuth
2 2 (7.41%) OpenID
2 2 (7.41%) SAML
2 2 (7.41%) Spring
3 1 (3.70%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Mac OS
3 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.41%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Enterprise Architecture
1 10 (37.04%) Roadmaps
2 9 (33.33%) Analytics
2 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (29.63%) ETL
4 7 (25.93%) Agile
4 7 (25.93%) Business Strategy
4 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (25.93%) Data Protection
4 7 (25.93%) Data Science
4 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) Strategic Roadmap
4 7 (25.93%) Thought Leadership
4 7 (25.93%) User Experience
4 7 (25.93%) Zero Trust
5 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 6 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (22.22%) IT Strategy
6 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
6 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) Bash
3 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) R
5 2 (7.41%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) GDPR
2 8 (29.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.41%) HIPAA
4 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.70%) NIST
5 1 (3.70%) NIST 800
5 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (25.93%) SCCM
2 2 (7.41%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Citrix
2 7 (25.93%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Google
4 3 (11.11%) Databricks
4 3 (11.11%) Informatica
4 3 (11.11%) Talend
5 2 (7.41%) Ab Initio
5 2 (7.41%) IBM
5 2 (7.41%) Ping Identity