Azure Storage Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Storage
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 178 200
Rank change year-on-year +33 +22 +52
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 12 26 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.39% 0.46% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.98% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 8
10th Percentile £410 £525 -
25th Percentile £413 £603 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £700
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% -13.57% +47.37%
75th Percentile £438 £608 £722
90th Percentile £641 - £791
England median daily rate £450 £605 £650
% change year-on-year -25.62% -6.92% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 944 1,315 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 23.03% 29.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 887 1,211
10th Percentile £250 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £593 £608 £638
90th Percentile £660 £675 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 58 51
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.26 £18.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £46.30 £59.95 £69.38
90th Percentile £72.25 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +16.98% -33.44% +53.81%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the South East

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the South East

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in the South East over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the South East

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 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
Thames Valley +13 12 £425 -29.75% 5
Berkshire +11 12 £425 -29.75% 4
Azure Storage
England

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Azure AKS
2 11 (91.67%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (66.67%) IaaS
3 8 (66.67%) PaaS
4 7 (58.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Table
7 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
9 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
9 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
9 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Site Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) ADO
2 6 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (33.33%) .NET
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) OAuth
4 1 (8.33%) OpenID
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
6 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (16.67%) Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) Log Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) RBAC
8 1 (8.33%) API Management
8 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
8 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (8.33%) MLOps
8 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 1 (8.33%) Observability
8 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Bicep
3 5 (41.67%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (25.00%) Bash
6 1 (8.33%) VB
6 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Grafana
3 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) SCOM
4 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft