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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 37 9 15
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 27.82% 6.52% 9.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 71.15% 45.00% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 13
10th Percentile £400 - £334
25th Percentile £553 £463 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £363
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +44.83% -42.69%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £500
90th Percentile £623 £706 £606
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
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 - -

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 52 20 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 39.10% 14.49% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 27
10th Percentile £188 £190 £280
25th Percentile £400 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £575
90th Percentile £603 £688 £634
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.96% - -
75th Percentile - £27.50 -
90th Percentile £41.29 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £32.06 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +28.25% - -

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 28 September 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 28 September 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%) Apache
1 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Entra ID
2 12 (32.43%) AWS
3 9 (24.32%) IaaS
4 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Batch
5 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) Cloudflare
7 2 (5.41%) GCP
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%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DHCP
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) MQTT
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
1 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Databricks Engineer
5 7 (18.92%) Architect
5 7 (18.92%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (18.92%) Principal Architect
6 3 (8.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Contracts Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 1 (2.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) gRPC
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
3 1 (2.70%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (21.62%) DevSecOps
5 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (18.92%) Agile
7 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (8.11%) Configuration Management
9 3 (8.11%) Microservices
9 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.11%) Runbook
9 3 (8.11%) Security Management
9 3 (8.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 2 (5.41%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) Bicep
4 5 (13.51%) 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%) GIAC
3 2 (5.41%) OSCP
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.11%) NIST
2 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
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
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.03%) Databricks
3 3 (8.11%) Qualys
3 3 (8.11%) Tenable
4 2 (5.41%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Siemens
5 1 (2.70%) VMware