Azure Storage Contracts

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 489 582
Rank change year-on-year -1 +93 +126
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 48 88 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.62% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 64 58
10th Percentile £369 £400 £396
25th Percentile £413 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% -6.92% +6.12%
75th Percentile £604 £609 £709
90th Percentile £646 £738 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -26.65% +0.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,353 14,178 20,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.73% 32.62% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,644 9,973 14,620
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £621 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 361 333
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.31 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.77 £26.48
% change year-on-year -9.15% -21.56% +39.37%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +17 44 £450 -25.62% 51
London +27 21 £419 -28.72% 23
UK excluding London +36 20 £444 -26.65% 32
Work from Home +2 15 £525 -13.22% 38
South East +33 12 £425 -29.75% 19
North of England +29 5 £450 -12.20% 5
North West +9 4 £488 -4.88% 4
South West +38 3 £450 -12.20% 3
Midlands - 2 £450 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £438 -
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 4
West Midlands - 1 - -

Azure Storage
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 2 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.08%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (52.08%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 15 (31.25%) Azure App Service
4 15 (31.25%) IaaS
5 14 (29.17%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (27.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (27.08%) PaaS
7 11 (22.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (22.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (22.92%) Entra ID
7 11 (22.92%) Serverless
8 10 (20.83%) Azure Functions
9 9 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (12.50%) Azure API Management
11 6 (12.50%) GitHub
12 4 (8.33%) Azure Table
12 4 (8.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
2 4 (8.33%) Network Security
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (39.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Parquet
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Law
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Architect
3 13 (27.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 13 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (22.92%) Azure Architect
5 10 (20.83%) Site Engineer
5 10 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (16.67%) Developer
7 4 (8.33%) .NET Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior
7 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.17%) React Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior .NET Developer
10 1 (2.08%) .NET Architect
10 1 (2.08%) C# Developer
10 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure Architect
10 1 (2.08%) Senior .NET Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 17 (35.42%) ADO
3 11 (22.92%) .NET
3 11 (22.92%) .NET Core
4 6 (12.50%) YAML
5 5 (10.42%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) OAuth
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.17%) Blazor
7 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.17%) React
8 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (2.08%) CSS
8 1 (2.08%) CSS3
8 1 (2.08%) JWT
8 1 (2.08%) PySpark
8 1 (2.08%) React Native
8 1 (2.08%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.25%) Legacy Code
2 2 (4.17%) Clustering
2 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.17%) TWAP
2 2 (4.17%) VWAP
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) NHS
3 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.08%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 6 (12.50%) VMS
3 4 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Android
4 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) DevOps
1 27 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.17%) RBAC
4 13 (27.08%) Cloud Security
5 11 (22.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (18.75%) API Management
6 9 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (16.67%) Agile
7 8 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (14.58%) Analytics
8 7 (14.58%) Log Analytics
8 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.50%) Identity Management
9 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (10.42%) DevSecOps
10 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (10.42%) Microservices
11 4 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (50.00%) Bicep
2 21 (43.75%) SQL
3 17 (35.42%) PowerShell
4 14 (29.17%) Python
5 12 (25.00%) Bash
6 11 (22.92%) C#
7 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.17%) C++
8 2 (4.17%) Go
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.08%) VB
9 1 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) HL7
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.25%) Docker
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (50.00%) Terraform
2 19 (39.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Grafana
3 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.17%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.08%) Istio
5 1 (2.08%) SCCM
5 1 (2.08%) SCOM
5 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco
3 1 (2.08%) Citrix
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) EMC
3 1 (2.08%) NetApp
3 1 (2.08%) Veeam
3 1 (2.08%) VMware