Azure Cosmos DB Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 358 398
Rank change year-on-year -109 +40 +128
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 91 219 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.57% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 1.66% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 141 159
10th Percentile £341 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -9.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £700
90th Percentile £709 £688 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.92% - +20.00%

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 12,322 13,209 18,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.44% 34.27% 35.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 8,953 13,052
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 202 344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.43 £15.06
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.07 £18.98
Median hourly rate £29.04 £30.73 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -12.19% +62.79%
75th Percentile £53.44 £60.95 £67.44
90th Percentile £70.88 £70.00 £78.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +41.44%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in the UK

Azure Cosmos DB
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Top 12 Contract Job 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 13 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
England -95 79 £523 -5.00% 36
London -37 55 £525 -2.42% 18
Work from Home -23 32 £529 +5.80% 23
UK excluding London -50 24 £523 -12.92% 22
Midlands 0 11 £575 +26.37% 3
West Midlands -7 8 £588 -2.08% 2
South West - 6 £520 - 5
North of England -20 5 £538 +14.36% 4
Yorkshire -13 4 £550 +12.24% 2
North West -11 3 £525 +16.67% 2
Scotland 0 2 £500 +11.11%
East Midlands -3 2 - - 1

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 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) DataSynapse
2 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) SAP PM
2 5 (5.49%) Aladdin
3 4 (4.40%) Fidessa
3 4 (4.40%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (40.66%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (27.47%) Azure AKS
3 25 (27.47%) Serverless
4 23 (25.27%) Entra ID
5 17 (18.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (18.68%) Azure Functions
5 17 (18.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (18.68%) GitHub
6 16 (17.58%) AWS
7 14 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (13.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.99%) Power Platform
11 9 (9.89%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (8.79%) PaaS
13 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (6.59%) Azure Pipelines
14 6 (6.59%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Firewall
2 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (35.16%) NoSQL
2 28 (30.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 17 (18.68%) MongoDB
4 11 (12.09%) Data Lake
4 11 (12.09%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (9.89%) Delta Lake
6 8 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (8.79%) Power BI
7 6 (6.59%) GIS
7 6 (6.59%) Oracle Database
7 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.40%) Big Data
8 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.30%) MySQL
9 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) Appium
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
2 4 (4.40%) NUnit
3 3 (3.30%) Postman
4 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.20%) git-flow
4 2 (2.20%) Selenium
4 2 (2.20%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.10%) ERwin
5 1 (1.10%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) MLflow
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (20.88%) Finance
1 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Banking
2 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Front Office
4 4 (4.40%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.40%) Law
5 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Back Office
6 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Marketing
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) Architect
3 14 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) .NET Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Azure Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Data Architect
7 7 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) DBA
8 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior
9 5 (5.49%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.49%) C# Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Database Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (29.67%) .NET
2 21 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 20 (21.98%) Node.js
4 15 (16.48%) Kafka
5 14 (15.38%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.38%) REST
6 13 (14.29%) React
7 12 (13.19%) RESTful
8 11 (12.09%) Next.js
9 9 (9.89%) Express.js
10 7 (7.69%) OAuth
10 7 (7.69%) OAuth2
11 5 (5.49%) ARM Templates
11 5 (5.49%) CSS
11 5 (5.49%) HTML
11 5 (5.49%) Pandas
12 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
12 4 (4.40%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
12 4 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.99%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.59%) IoT
4 6 (6.59%) SCADA
5 4 (4.40%) Derivative
5 4 (4.40%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.30%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.20%) PDA
7 2 (2.20%) Replication
8 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Android
1 4 (4.40%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (62.64%) DevOps
2 47 (51.65%) CI/CD
3 37 (40.66%) Agile
4 32 (35.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (30.77%) Microservices
6 24 (26.37%) Test Automation
7 21 (23.08%) Analytics
8 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
9 17 (18.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (17.58%) Data Modelling
10 16 (17.58%) ETL
11 15 (16.48%) API Management
11 15 (16.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (16.48%) Containerisation
11 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (15.38%) Machine Learning
12 14 (15.38%) Scrum
13 12 (13.19%) Data Governance
14 11 (12.09%) Event-Driven
14 11 (12.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (54.95%) SQL
2 35 (38.46%) C#
3 27 (29.67%) Python
4 25 (27.47%) Bicep
5 13 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 12 (13.19%) PowerShell
7 10 (10.99%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.69%) Java
9 6 (6.59%) Bash
9 6 (6.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Degree
5 2 (2.20%) MCSE
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) Data Quality
1 8 (8.79%) GDPR
2 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (4.40%) MiFID
5 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.20%) QA
6 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (25.27%) Docker
2 11 (12.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (32.97%) Kubernetes
2 28 (30.77%) Terraform
3 8 (8.79%) Kibana
4 2 (2.20%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (36.26%) Microsoft
2 21 (23.08%) Databricks
3 8 (8.79%) SAP
4 7 (7.69%) Informatica
4 7 (7.69%) Oracle
5 4 (4.40%) Portware
6 3 (3.30%) Confluent
6 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.20%) Google
7 2 (2.20%) Workday
8 1 (1.10%) Ariba
8 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.10%) IBM
8 1 (1.10%) Talend