Azure Cosmos DB Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
England > South East

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 113 172
Rank change year-on-year -75 +59 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 2 42 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.041% 1.35% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 4.12% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 27 29
10th Percentile £518 £508 -
25th Percentile £525 £604 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +22.55%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £675
90th Percentile £583 £651 £688
England median daily rate £525 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -15.32% +3.33% +4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Azure Cosmos DB 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,502 1,020 1,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.59% 32.73% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 692 1,003
10th Percentile £258 £263 £213
25th Percentile £388 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £615
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 22 50
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.42 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.37 £18.87 £19.56
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +19.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73.13 £47.58 £59.95
90th Percentile £92.90 £74.42 £62.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cosmos DB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Azure Cosmos DB job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft