Azure Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 53 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 36.81% 10.14% 6.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 84.13% 30.43% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 6 3
10th Percentile £525 £600 £330
25th Percentile £563 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £700 - £553
90th Percentile £750 - £614
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £76.50 £46.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +65.41% +150.00% +4.40%

All Cloud Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 63 23 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 43.75% 33.33% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 15 16
10th Percentile £525 £128 £163
25th Percentile £563 £213 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £403
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -0.62% -17.44%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £588
90th Percentile £750 - £640
West Midlands median daily rate £505 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £17.16 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.24% +4.40%
75th Percentile - £18.13 £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £20.24 £18.50
% change year-on-year +41.33% +9.41% +8.12%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Worcestershire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Azure

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Malvern -2 43 £700 -
Worcester +6 34 £650 -7.14% 3
Azure
West Midlands

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 6 (11.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (62.26%) GitHub
2 15 (28.30%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (24.53%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (22.64%) AWS
4 12 (22.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (13.21%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (13.21%) Entra ID
6 7 (13.21%) Serverless
7 6 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (11.32%) Azure Stack
8 5 (9.43%) Azure AKS
8 5 (9.43%) Datadog
8 5 (9.43%) GCP
8 5 (9.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (9.43%) npm
8 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
8 5 (9.43%) Pulumi
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (26.42%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (13.21%) Redis
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) SonarQube
2 11 (20.75%) GitLab
3 10 (18.87%) Git
4 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.43%) Artifactory
5 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
5 5 (9.43%) CircleCI
5 5 (9.43%) Cypress.io
5 5 (9.43%) Gradle
5 5 (9.43%) JUnit
5 5 (9.43%) Maven
5 5 (9.43%) Postman
5 5 (9.43%) Selenium
5 5 (9.43%) Snyk
5 5 (9.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (9.43%) webpack
6 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (3.77%) Aeronautics
3 1 (1.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Senior
2 12 (22.64%) Data Engineer
2 12 (22.64%) Senior Data Engineer
3 10 (18.87%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Backend Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Python Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) IT Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Senior IT Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.30%) YAML
2 12 (22.64%) Kafka
2 12 (22.64%) Keycloak
2 12 (22.64%) REST
3 7 (13.21%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (13.21%) FastAPI
3 7 (13.21%) Flask
3 7 (13.21%) GraphQL
3 7 (13.21%) gRPC
3 7 (13.21%) WebSockets
4 5 (9.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.43%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 7 (13.21%) Windows
2 7 (13.21%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (73.58%) DevOps
2 33 (62.26%) Containerisation
3 28 (52.83%) CI/CD
4 23 (43.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
6 15 (28.30%) DevSecOps
7 12 (22.64%) Batch Processing
7 12 (22.64%) Data Engineering
7 12 (22.64%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (22.64%) DataOps
7 12 (22.64%) ETL
8 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (18.87%) Data Architecture
8 10 (18.87%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (18.87%) Regulatory Compliance
9 9 (16.98%) Agile
10 8 (15.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 7 (13.21%) Configuration Management
11 7 (13.21%) Incident Response
11 7 (13.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Python
2 20 (37.74%) Go
3 7 (13.21%) SQL
4 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.55%) Bash
6 2 (3.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (84.91%) Security Cleared
2 35 (66.04%) SC Cleared
3 29 (54.72%) DV Cleared
4 23 (43.40%) Azure Certification
5 6 (11.32%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (9.43%) AWS Certification
6 5 (9.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (71.70%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (71.70%) Kubernetes
2 20 (37.74%) Terraform
3 13 (24.53%) Grafana
3 13 (24.53%) Prometheus
4 11 (20.75%) Ansible
5 5 (9.43%) Podman
5 5 (9.43%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.43%) Puppet
6 2 (3.77%) Kibana
6 2 (3.77%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Splunk
3 3 (5.66%) VMware
4 2 (3.77%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat