Azure Storage Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Storage
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Storage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 129 144
Rank change year-on-year +35 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 8 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.60% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 2.12% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 7
10th Percentile £405 - £569
25th Percentile £413 £603 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £675
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% -10.37% -
75th Percentile £438 £608 £700
90th Percentile £540 - £710
South East median daily rate £425 £605 £663
% change year-on-year -29.75% -8.68% +29.27%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Azure Storage 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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the Thames Valley

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the Thames Valley

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the Thames Valley

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +23 8 £425 -29.75% 1
Azure Storage
South East

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (50.00%) IaaS
4 4 (50.00%) PaaS
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Table
6 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (12.50%) AWS
7 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
7 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
7 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) HBase
3 1 (12.50%) HDInsight
3 1 (12.50%) Impala
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Site Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) ADO
1 5 (62.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Data Management
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Log Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) API Management
6 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Metadata Management
6 1 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) MLOps
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) Bicep
3 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
6 1 (12.50%) Perl
6 1 (12.50%) VB
6 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Flume
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (12.50%) SCOM
4 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) StreamSets