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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.95% 3.23% 4.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.32% 25.00% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile - £254 £280
25th Percentile £200 £297 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £388 £313
Median % change year-on-year - +24.00% -26.47%
75th Percentile £488 £472 £375
90th Percentile £552 £511 £495
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

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 19 8 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 18.81% 12.90% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 18
10th Percentile £156 £283 £244
25th Percentile £181 £369 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +50.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £431 £556 £438
90th Percentile £552 £568 £540
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.93
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +11.17%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 - 2 £489 - 9
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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Boomi
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) BAPI
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow