Azure Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Microsoft Azure
Worcestershire > Worcester

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 34 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 62.96% 12.20% 3.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 100.00% 45.45% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 5 1
10th Percentile £525 £580 -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £300
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +133.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £805 - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £650 £700 £450
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% -10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Worcester

Azure 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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 34 11 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 62.96% 26.83% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 10 7
10th Percentile £525 £240 -
25th Percentile £538 £310 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +50.00% -36.84%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £375
90th Percentile £805 - £505
Worcestershire median daily rate £650 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +62.50% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.19 -
Worcestershire median hourly rate - £16.19 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -12.49% +4.40%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester.

Azure job vacancy trend in Worcester

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Worcester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Worcester

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) GitHub
2 11 (32.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (20.59%) Azure Stack
3 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.94%) AWS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) IaaS
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (38.24%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Senior
2 11 (32.35%) Data Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Senior Data Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) IT Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Application Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Kafka
1 11 (32.35%) Keycloak
2 10 (29.41%) YAML
3 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) DevOps
2 20 (58.82%) Containerisation
3 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (32.35%) Batch Processing
4 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 11 (32.35%) Data Engineering
4 11 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (32.35%) DataOps
4 11 (32.35%) ETL
4 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
5 10 (29.41%) Data Architecture
5 10 (29.41%) DevSecOps
5 10 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (29.41%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (11.76%) SIEM
8 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (5.88%) Case Management
9 2 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) Go
3 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (79.41%) Security Cleared
2 24 (70.59%) SC Cleared
3 17 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 16 (47.06%) DV Cleared
5 6 (17.65%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (61.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (35.29%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Kibana
3 2 (5.88%) logstash
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) VMware
2 2 (5.88%) ArcSight
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk