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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 17 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 11.11% 14.29% 7.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.36% 78.26% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 11
10th Percentile £385 £463 £356
25th Percentile £441 £488 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £640 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% +42.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £703 £607
90th Percentile £602 £735 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.09% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 56 23 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 36.60% 18.25% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 12 26
10th Percentile £334 £373 £204
25th Percentile £463 £463 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £516 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +14.72% -18.18%
75th Percentile £573 £667 £634
90th Percentile £630 £716 £636
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £24.35 - -
25th Percentile £42.45 - -
Median hourly rate £71.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £34.13 £61.25 £17.69
% change year-on-year -44.29% +246.24% -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 19 July 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
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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) Entra ID
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Cloudflare
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Batch
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) NUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Principal Architect
5 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Field Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Flask
1 1 (5.88%) gRPC
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
1 1 (5.88%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (5.88%) pytest
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Security Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
5 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) Rust
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CISM
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Podman
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) NVIDIA
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Siemens
2 1 (5.88%) Tenable