Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Storage
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% - 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £370 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.73%
75th Percentile £410 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £431 £605 £610
% change year-on-year -28.72% -0.82% -3.17%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 593 550 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.39% 28.74% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 369 525
10th Percentile £264 £213 £208
25th Percentile £413 £353 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +2.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £686 £686 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the West Midlands

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Azure Storage
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 Storage within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Birmingham - 2 £390 - 2
Azure Storage
England

Azure Storage
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (100.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft