Microsoft Azure
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 12 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 8 | 8 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | 0 | -4 |
| Contract jobs citing Azure | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent | - | 3.57% | 10.64% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | - | 14.29% | 33.33% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | £483 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £375 | £494 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | £400 | £563 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -28.89% | +25.00% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £425 | £647 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £664 |
| Staffordshire median daily rate | £525 | £375 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | +40.00% | -25.00% | +10.99% |
All Cloud Skills
Stoke-on-Trent
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 Stoke-on-Trent.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent | 21.05% | 25.00% | 31.91% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 4 | 7 | 10 |
| 10th Percentile | £383 | £320 | £178 |
| 25th Percentile | £394 | £325 | £189 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £400 | £350 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +14.29% | -26.32% | +15.15% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £375 | £521 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £395 | £641 |
| Staffordshire median daily rate | £400 | £350 | £338 |
| % change year-on-year | +14.29% | +3.70% | -15.63% |
Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent
Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.
Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Stoke-on-Trent.