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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 99 128
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +49
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Azure Storage 18 26 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.09% 1.15% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 3.99% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 13
10th Percentile - £520 £561
25th Percentile £413 £525 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £675
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% -10.37% +21.62%
75th Percentile £508 £608 £700
90th Percentile £579 - £773
South East median daily rate £425 £605 £675
% change year-on-year -29.75% -10.37% +8.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 605 652 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.58% 28.77% 28.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 449 572
10th Percentile £263 £363 £266
25th Percentile £406 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £650
90th Percentile £664 £661 £718
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 19
10th Percentile - £18.50 £17.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £19.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +31.58% +57.56%
75th Percentile £32.31 £60.60 £45.75
90th Percentile £46.30 £62.85 £66.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £28.50 £28.16
% change year-on-year -33.96% +1.21% +40.80%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Storage

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the Thames Valley

Azure Storage
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +11 18 £425 -29.75% 3
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 12 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (55.56%) PaaS
4 9 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (50.00%) IaaS
5 6 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (22.22%) AWS
6 4 (22.22%) GCP
6 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (16.67%) Azure Table
7 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
7 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) NAS
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 11 (61.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (61.11%) Site Engineer
2 11 (61.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) ADO
2 5 (27.78%) ARM Templates
3 4 (22.22%) .NET
3 4 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) Swagger
4 1 (5.56%) WSDL
4 1 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) PKI
1 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
1 13 (72.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) Identity Management
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (22.22%) Storage Management
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) High Availability
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Microservices
6 1 (5.56%) Process Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Release Management
6 1 (5.56%) Service Management
6 1 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Bicep
2 5 (27.78%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) VB
5 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Azure Certification
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
3 1 (5.56%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) EMC
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) NetApp
1 4 (22.22%) Pure Storage