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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 6 21 22
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.64% 15.00% 14.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.27% 48.84% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 21
10th Percentile £553 £306 £475
25th Percentile £744 £352 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £418 £633
Median % change year-on-year +103.59% -33.99% +15.53%
75th Percentile - £500 £650
90th Percentile - £638 -
Hampshire median daily rate £523 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -3.02% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - £19.97 £27.00
% change year-on-year - -26.04% -47.32%

All Cloud 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 22 43 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 13.33% 30.71% 35.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 35 38
10th Percentile £194 £270 £459
25th Percentile £245 £353 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -27.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £621 £500 £650
90th Percentile £850 £583 -
Hampshire median daily rate £503 £505 £538
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.05% -1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.63%
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.97 £21.50
% change year-on-year +25.19% -7.12% +16.22%

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 25 December 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Algolia
1 3 (50.00%) Commercetools
1 3 (50.00%) Contentful
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce Architect
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Coaching
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
2 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) ISMS
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Market Research
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
2 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISMP
1 1 (16.67%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft