Azure Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

Microsoft Azure
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Peterborough requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 20 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 2.78% 4.29% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% 11.54% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 £431 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% - -
75th Percentile £713 £444 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £600 £516
% change year-on-year -20.83% +16.34% +8.58%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10 26 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 13.89% 37.14% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £514 £233 -
25th Percentile £534 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £438 £300
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% +45.83% -36.84%
75th Percentile £659 £525 -
90th Percentile £691 £611 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £485 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -5.60% +14.17% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 37
10th Percentile £16.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £35.91 £17.97 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +99.83% +10.25% +5.16%
75th Percentile £37.71 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £41.14 - £21.46
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £29.50 £16.90 £16.30
% change year-on-year +74.56% +3.68% +5.16%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Peterborough

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Kepware
1 1 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens