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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 392 431
Rank change year-on-year -72 +39 +96
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 70 197 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 1.39% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 138 165
10th Percentile £444 £400 £415
25th Percentile £500 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £725
90th Percentile £706 £729 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.40% +4.17% +17.65%
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 11,532 14,163 20,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.62% 32.81% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 9,952 14,655
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £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 290 355 335
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.05 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.87 £26.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -19.73% +36.20%

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 30 June 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 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 Cosmos DB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 -67 54 £540 -10.00% 244
London -37 33 £644 +17.58% 129
Work from Home -10 28 £575 +9.52% 164
UK excluding London +12 27 £523 -16.40% 128
Midlands +13 9 £575 +4.55% 17
West Midlands +9 8 £588 +2.17% 9
Scotland - 8 £525 - 11
South West +44 5 £513 - 18
North of England +5 3 £525 -12.50% 40
South East +20 2 £625 - 35
North West +9 2 £525 -12.50% 28
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 9

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 3 (4.29%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) DataSynapse
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) SAP PM
2 2 (2.86%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (31.43%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (25.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (25.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 16 (22.86%) GitHub
5 15 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 14 (20.00%) Azure AKS
7 12 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (17.14%) Power Platform
7 12 (17.14%) Serverless
8 11 (15.71%) AWS
9 10 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (8.57%) Collibra
12 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (5.71%) Azure Functions
14 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (4.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (38.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (37.14%) SQL Server
3 18 (25.71%) NoSQL
4 17 (24.29%) MongoDB
5 12 (17.14%) Data Lake
6 9 (12.86%) Delta Lake
7 7 (10.00%) Power BI
8 6 (8.57%) GIS
8 6 (8.57%) Oracle Database
8 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (7.14%) MySQL
10 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (4.29%) DB2
11 3 (4.29%) MariaDB
11 3 (4.29%) Power Query
11 3 (4.29%) Redis
11 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
11 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.86%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Git
1 4 (5.71%) GitLab
2 3 (4.29%) JUnit
2 3 (4.29%) Mockito
3 2 (2.86%) Appium
3 2 (2.86%) NUnit
3 2 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.43%) ERwin
4 1 (1.43%) JIRA
4 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 17 (24.29%) Finance
2 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Front Office
6 3 (4.29%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Back Office
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Advertising
8 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
2 15 (21.43%) Architect
3 13 (18.57%) Data Architect
4 9 (12.86%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Software Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Python Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) .NET Developer
6 6 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Analyst
7 5 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Developer
8 4 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Architect
9 3 (4.29%) Data Migration Specialist
9 3 (4.29%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (4.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) .NET
1 15 (21.43%) Kafka
2 12 (17.14%) .NET Core
3 11 (15.71%) OAuth
3 11 (15.71%) OAuth2
3 11 (15.71%) REST
4 10 (14.29%) OpenID
5 9 (12.86%) Pandas
5 9 (12.86%) RESTful
6 8 (11.43%) NumPy
6 8 (11.43%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.29%) ARM Templates
8 3 (4.29%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.29%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (4.29%) JSON
8 3 (4.29%) Node.js
8 3 (4.29%) Spring
8 3 (4.29%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.00%) IoT
3 6 (8.57%) SCADA
4 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.71%) Low-Code
6 3 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.29%) TWAP
6 3 (4.29%) VWAP
7 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.86%) PDA
7 2 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.86%) Replication
8 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.43%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.43%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Android
1 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (51.43%) DevOps
2 26 (37.14%) Agile
2 26 (37.14%) CI/CD
3 24 (34.29%) Test Automation
4 20 (28.57%) Analytics
5 17 (24.29%) Microservices
6 15 (21.43%) Data Governance
6 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (20.00%) ETL
8 12 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.71%) Scrum
10 10 (14.29%) Data Architecture
10 10 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 10 (14.29%) Quantitative Finance
10 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (12.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 42 (60.00%) SQL
2 33 (47.14%) Python
3 24 (34.29%) C#
4 12 (17.14%) Bicep
5 9 (12.86%) Java
6 8 (11.43%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (8.57%) T-SQL
8 5 (7.14%) Bash
8 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.29%) C++
9 3 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (4.29%) Go
9 3 (4.29%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
3 2 (2.86%) MCSE
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (11.43%) GDPR
3 7 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 6 (8.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (37.14%) Terraform
2 22 (31.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Grafana
4 3 (4.29%) Ansible
4 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (28.57%) Databricks
3 13 (18.57%) Oracle
4 7 (10.00%) Informatica
5 6 (8.57%) SAP
6 3 (4.29%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) Talend