Azure Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft Azure
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 14 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 9.15% 15.24% 16.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.00% 48.08% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 32
10th Percentile £74 £313 £223
25th Percentile £460 £326 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £524 £575 £700
90th Percentile £596 £663 -
East Midlands median daily rate £456 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -6.41% +14.71% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.48
Median hourly rate £16.35 - £48.24
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.72 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -36.84%

All Cloud Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 40 52 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 26.14% 31.71% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 65
10th Percentile £394 £202 £223
25th Percentile £438 £292 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £516 £575 £700
90th Percentile £563 £636 -
East Midlands median daily rate £440 £445 £425
% change year-on-year -1.24% +4.71% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - £9.35 £13.23
25th Percentile - £13.52 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.63 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -37.20% -35.81%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.95 £14.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +49.61% -30.00% +1.91%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Nottinghamshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Nottinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Nottinghamshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Nottinghamshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Nottinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Nottinghamshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Nottingham 0 14 £500 - 62
Azure
East Midlands

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) NetBeans
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Android Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (7.14%) ETRM Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) ETRM Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) POSIX
2 1 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Loki
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) Prophet
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) pytest
2 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.14%) XGBoost
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
4 3 (21.43%) ETRM
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) API Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Open Source
5 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Server Building
5 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) C
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISA
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) MISRA
2 2 (14.29%) MISRA C
2 2 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (7.14%) COBIT
3 1 (7.14%) EMIR
3 1 (7.14%) IEC 61508
3 1 (7.14%) ISO 9001
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (7.14%) MiFID
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) QNX
4 1 (7.14%) Alteryx
4 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.14%) Genesys
4 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Trayport