Azure Cosmos DB Contracts

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Cosmos DB 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 430 395 477
Rank change year-on-year -35 +82 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 90 189 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 1.34% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 126 171
10th Percentile £450 £409 £444
25th Percentile £505 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £681
90th Percentile £776 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £620 £500
% change year-on-year -15.32% +24.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Cosmos DB 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Cosmos DB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Daily rate trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB within the UK 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
England -48 70 £625 +4.17% 108
London -37 41 £650 +19.27% 44
Work from Home +11 40 £575 +2.22% 84
UK excluding London +43 37 £525 -15.32% 75
South East +22 14 £625 - 22
Scotland +25 13 £525 - 7
North of England +22 7 £500 -16.67% 30
North West +19 6 £476 -20.71% 23
South West +49 4 £475 - 7
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 7

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) CMS
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 26 (28.89%) Entra ID
4 24 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (25.56%) Serverless
6 21 (23.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (20.00%) Azure Functions
8 17 (18.89%) Azure AKS
8 17 (18.89%) GitHub
9 15 (16.67%) Power Platform
10 13 (14.44%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (13.33%) AWS
12 11 (12.22%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (11.11%) Azure API Management
14 8 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
17 5 (5.56%) Azure Storage
18 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 4 (4.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (34.44%) SQL Server
2 20 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 17 (18.89%) MongoDB
5 11 (12.22%) Data Lake
6 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.44%) Power BI
9 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.33%) DB2
9 3 (3.33%) MySQL
9 3 (3.33%) Power Query
9 3 (3.33%) Redis
10 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.22%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.22%) Data Vault
10 2 (2.22%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (20.00%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) Selenium
3 6 (6.67%) GitLab
4 3 (3.33%) JUnit
4 3 (3.33%) Mockito
5 2 (2.22%) JIRA
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (2.22%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.11%) ERwin
6 1 (1.11%) Postman
6 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (24.44%) Finance
2 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Front Office
4 7 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Back Office
6 4 (4.44%) Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Advertising
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (42.22%) Developer
2 16 (17.78%) Azure Developer
2 16 (17.78%) Software Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (13.33%) Architect
5 10 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Python Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 9 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Senior
7 8 (8.89%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 6 (6.67%) React Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) C# Software Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
12 3 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 3 (3.33%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) .NET
2 19 (21.11%) REST
3 16 (17.78%) OAuth
4 15 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 15 (16.67%) OpenID
5 14 (15.56%) OAuth2
6 13 (14.44%) AngularJS
7 12 (13.33%) Kafka
8 9 (10.00%) Node.js
8 9 (10.00%) NumPy
8 9 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (10.00%) Pandas
8 9 (10.00%) React
8 9 (10.00%) RESTful
9 7 (7.78%) ADO
9 7 (7.78%) CSS
9 7 (7.78%) HTML
10 6 (6.67%) Blazor
11 4 (4.44%) Express.js
12 3 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.44%) TWAP
4 4 (4.44%) VWAP
5 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.33%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.11%) Clustering
7 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.11%) Derivative
7 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) IoT
7 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.11%) Social Media
7 1 (1.11%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.00%) Agile
2 44 (48.89%) DevOps
3 33 (36.67%) CI/CD
4 31 (34.44%) Test Automation
5 29 (32.22%) Microservices
6 24 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (13.33%) SDLC
10 11 (12.22%) Quantitative Finance
11 10 (11.11%) Analytics
11 10 (11.11%) Front End Development
11 10 (11.11%) Scrum
12 9 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (10.00%) Performance Testing
13 8 (8.89%) API Development
13 8 (8.89%) Containerisation
14 7 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (7.78%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.78%) Python
2 33 (36.67%) SQL
3 29 (32.22%) C#
4 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.56%) Java
6 9 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.89%) PL/SQL
8 6 (6.67%) Bicep
8 6 (6.67%) C++
8 6 (6.67%) Go
8 6 (6.67%) T-SQL
9 4 (4.44%) Bash
9 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
1 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (34.44%) Kubernetes
2 28 (31.11%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) Ansible
4 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) Argo
5 1 (1.11%) Istio
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (16.67%) Oracle
2 11 (12.22%) Databricks
3 9 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.11%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) Informatica
5 1 (1.11%) Mercator
5 1 (1.11%) Talend