Azure Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Microsoft Azure
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 29 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 18.83% 13.74% 8.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 81.82% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 11
10th Percentile £403 £463 £356
25th Percentile £469 £488 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £640 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +42.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £703 £607
90th Percentile - £735 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £572 £539 £578
% change year-on-year +6.13% -6.75% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £47.37 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 58 22 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 37.66% 16.79% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 11 26
10th Percentile £356 - £353
25th Percentile £483 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +0.77% -5.27%
75th Percentile £588 £674 £634
90th Percentile £630 £719 £636
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +5.77% -9.57% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
75th Percentile £65.13 - -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 £70.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year -46.80% +295.70% -34.48%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Southampton

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Southampton over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Southampton

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Southampton

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Southampton over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Southampton

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Entra ID
2 10 (34.48%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) IaaS
4 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Batch
6 2 (6.90%) Cloudflare
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) NUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (17.24%) Principal Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Contracts Manager
6 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) Flask
2 1 (3.45%) gRPC
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (3.45%) pytest
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) DevSecOps
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) Microservices
6 4 (13.79%) Security Architecture
6 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security
7 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.34%) Software Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
8 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
8 2 (6.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Bicep
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) Scala
5 1 (3.45%) Groovy
5 1 (3.45%) Rust
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) CISM
3 2 (6.90%) CISSP
3 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Podman
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Siemens
3 1 (3.45%) Tenable