Azure Cosmos DB Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 107 121
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +61
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.21% 0.098%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 0.74% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £553 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -9.09% +21.55%
75th Percentile £609 £563 -
90th Percentile £611 £600 -
England median daily rate £535 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.82% -8.33% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 600 539 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.47% 28.59% 36.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 351 536
10th Percentile £275 £213 £206
25th Percentile £413 £356 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £700 £685 £700
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.59% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £28.61 £15.65 £17.50
25th Percentile £30.97 £21.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £34.43 £33.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +81.30% +8.82%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £47.13 £40.00 £19.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +46.67%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Cosmos DB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Cosmos DB in the West Midlands

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Azure Cosmos DB
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Coventry -1 7 £600 -
Warwickshire -5 1 £575 +15.00%
Azure Cosmos DB
England

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (75.00%) Collibra
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (87.50%) Delta Lake
2 6 (75.00%) GIS
3 5 (62.50%) Oracle Database
4 4 (50.00%) Power BI
5 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Asset Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) IoT
1 6 (75.00%) SCADA
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Data Mapping
3 5 (62.50%) ETL
4 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Migration
5 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
5 3 (37.50%) Batch Processing
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
5 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) RBAC
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
5 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
1 5 (62.50%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Databricks
3 6 (75.00%) Informatica
3 6 (75.00%) SAP
4 5 (62.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) IBM