Azure Storage Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 372 407
Rank change year-on-year +49 +35 +70
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 16 27 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.50% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 36
10th Percentile - £494 £439
25th Percentile £413 £603 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £605 £588
Median % change year-on-year -26.65% +2.98% +14.63%
75th Percentile £547 £608 £614
90th Percentile £604 - £700
UK median daily rate £550 £605 £594
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.89% +3.26%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,099 5,425 7,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 26.14% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 3,831 5,919
10th Percentile £240 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.51 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +39 9 £425 -29.75% 3
North of England +26 5 £450 -12.20% 6
North West +16 4 £488 -4.88% 1
South West +38 3 £450 -13.25% 2
Midlands +19 1 - - 3
West Midlands +15 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 3
Azure Storage
UK

Azure Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Azure AKS
4 6 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (31.25%) IaaS
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (31.25%) PaaS
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (18.75%) Azure App Service
7 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
8 2 (12.50%) AWS
8 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Table
8 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
8 2 (12.50%) Serverless
9 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
9 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) HBase
3 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
3 1 (6.25%) Impala
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Site Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Architect
6 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (6.25%) .NET Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Data Integration Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) ARM Templates
2 6 (37.50%) ADO
3 4 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (12.50%) PySpark
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 1 (6.25%) JSON
5 1 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) OpenID
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) SAML
5 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) IoT
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (6.25%) Taxonomies
1 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (6.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) RBAC
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Data Management
7 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 2 (12.50%) Log Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
8 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
8 1 (6.25%) Release Management
8 1 (6.25%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
8 1 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Bicep
3 5 (31.25%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (6.25%) VB
6 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) SCOM
4 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) EMC
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) NetApp
3 1 (6.25%) StreamSets
3 1 (6.25%) Veeam
3 1 (6.25%) VMware