Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 344 396
Rank change year-on-year +5 +52 +90
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 29 34 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.69% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 25
10th Percentile - £511 £514
25th Percentile £413 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -0.82% -2.40%
75th Percentile £511 £608 £700
90th Percentile £575 £623 £795
UK median daily rate £445 £593 £610
% change year-on-year -24.89% -2.87% -2.40%

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 4,904 4,952 6,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.70% 27.62% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,293 3,254 4,903
10th Percentile £250 £247 £225
25th Percentile £378 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 138 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £16.29
Median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +15.38% +35.06%
75th Percentile £36.00 £67.74 £61.88
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Storage

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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK excluding London

Azure Storage
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Storage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Storage

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 19 September 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 +13 20 £425 -29.75% 8
Midlands - 4 £450 - 3
North of England -27 3 £525 -16.00% 1
North West -8 2 £538 -17.31%
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £390 - 2
Scotland - 2 - -
Yorkshire -17 1 £438 -23.58% 1
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 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.90%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Azure AKS
3 13 (44.83%) PaaS
4 12 (41.38%) IaaS
5 11 (37.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (20.69%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
8 4 (13.79%) AWS
8 4 (13.79%) GCP
9 3 (10.34%) Azure Table
9 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
9 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
10 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
10 2 (6.90%) Azure App Service
10 2 (6.90%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (6.90%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) NAS
1 4 (13.79%) SAN
2 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.34%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) GIS
3 2 (6.90%) Spatial Data
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
1 2 (6.90%) Postman
1 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Site Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) GIS Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Migration Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Integration Developer
5 1 (3.45%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) ADO
2 5 (17.24%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) .NET Core
2 5 (17.24%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.90%) RESTful
3 2 (6.90%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) Swagger
3 2 (6.90%) WSDL
3 2 (6.90%) XSLT
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) PKI
1 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) VMS
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) DevOps
1 15 (51.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (20.69%) Identity Management
5 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.79%) Storage Management
7 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
7 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) RBAC
8 2 (6.90%) Analytics
8 2 (6.90%) API Testing
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (6.90%) Data Security
8 2 (6.90%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (6.90%) Project Management
8 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) C#
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.69%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) Bicep
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) VB
6 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Azure Certification
2 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.45%) Degree
6 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.34%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) Grafana
3 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (3.45%) SCOM
4 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) EMC
2 5 (17.24%) NetApp
3 4 (13.79%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Veeam
4 1 (3.45%) VMware