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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 37 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 22.70% 13.24% 9.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.92% 81.82% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 12
10th Percentile £400 £463 £356
25th Percentile £469 £488 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £640 £433
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +47.98% -29.67%
75th Percentile £588 £703 £603
90th Percentile - £735 £646
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £41.29 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.75 - £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 65 22 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 39.88% 16.18% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 11 28
10th Percentile £380 - £335
25th Percentile £483 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £508 £515
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -1.41% -6.41%
75th Percentile £588 £674 £634
90th Percentile £630 £719 £635
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +6.80% -10.43% +4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £41.29 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 £70.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year -46.80% +295.70% -17.72%

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 16 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 16 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 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Entra ID
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) IaaS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Batch
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.41%) Cloudflare
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) MQTT
2 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) NUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Selenium
3 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Finance
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Architect
2 9 (24.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Principal Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Contracts Manager
5 2 (5.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Field Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) Senior
6 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) Flask
2 1 (2.70%) gRPC
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (2.70%) pytest
2 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) DevOps
2 13 (35.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (21.62%) Agile
4 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.92%) DevSecOps
5 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.81%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (10.81%) Microservices
7 4 (10.81%) Security Architecture
7 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security
8 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.11%) Runbook
8 3 (8.11%) Software Architecture
8 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) Bicep
4 4 (10.81%) Scala
5 2 (5.41%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) Groovy
6 1 (2.70%) Rust
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) CISM
3 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Grafana
2 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Podman
3 1 (2.70%) Puppet
3 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA
3 1 (2.70%) Qualys
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) Siemens
3 1 (2.70%) Tenable
3 1 (2.70%) VMware