Azure Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Microsoft Azure
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 13 25 25
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 17.11% 22.52% 22.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 65.00% 71.43% 64.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 13
10th Percentile £212 £197 £230
25th Percentile £214 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £220 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -48.24% -33.59%
75th Percentile £313 - £550
90th Percentile £399 £312 £630
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% -14.09%

All Cloud Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 26.32% 31.53% 34.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 27
10th Percentile £213 £197 £128
25th Percentile £220 £220 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -45.31%
75th Percentile £688 £388 £538
90th Percentile - £460 £593
East of England median daily rate £483 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +7.22% -5.26% -5.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Suffolk over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Suffolk

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Leiston +3 8 £220 -
Ipswich +3 4 £438 -2.78% 10
Azure
East of England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 8 (61.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JMeter
1 1 (7.69%) Locust
1 1 (7.69%) Newman
1 1 (7.69%) Robot Framework
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
1 1 (7.69%) TestCafe
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Desktop Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Desktop Support
1 8 (61.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.69%) Flask
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) gRPC
2 1 (7.69%) MediatR
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.69%) Taurus
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) iPad
1 4 (30.77%) iPhone
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows 10
3 4 (30.77%) Apple iOS
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Customer Service
2 8 (61.54%) ITIL
3 7 (53.85%) Antivirus Management
4 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Inventory Management
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Time Management
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.69%) API Development
7 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
7 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 1 (7.69%) Data Science
7 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (7.69%) MLOps
7 1 (7.69%) SOLID
7 1 (7.69%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Starlink
3 3 (23.08%) McAfee