Azure Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 11 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 6.40% 6.90% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.43% 36.36% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £200 £268 -
25th Percentile £336 £331 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £313
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +44.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £347
90th Percentile £520 £803 £364
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -8.54% +2.57% +5.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35 11 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 20.35% 18.97% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 5 13
10th Percentile £181 £204 £218
25th Percentile £200 £225 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +28.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £463 £438
90th Percentile £850 £718 £468
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.04
25th Percentile - - £34.20
Median hourly rate - - £34.47
75th Percentile - - £34.73
90th Percentile - - £34.89
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £35.49 £32.21
% change year-on-year -4.23% +10.19% +69.51%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Staffordshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stoke-on-Trent -3 3 £489 -44.14% 14
Uttoxeter - 2 £200 -
Azure
West Midlands

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP MDG
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Boomi
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) BAPI
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
3 1 (9.09%) Data Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) ERP
3 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (9.09%) Lakehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) NetApp
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow