Azure Cosmos DB Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 275 365
Rank change year-on-year +11 +90 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 40 70 112
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.26% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 91
10th Percentile £425 £404 £425
25th Percentile £509 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +0.45% +6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £652
90th Percentile £788 - £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Cosmos DB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Cosmos DB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Cosmos DB trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Azure Cosmos DB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Cosmos DB over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure Cosmos DB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.50%) CMS
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Azure API Management
4 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
5 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (17.50%) GitHub
7 6 (15.00%) Azure AKS
7 6 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (15.00%) Azure Functions
7 6 (15.00%) Serverless
8 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.50%) AWS
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (5.00%) PaaS
10 2 (5.00%) SaaS
10 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (17.50%) Data Lake
5 6 (15.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (10.00%) Power BI
7 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.00%) Data Vault
8 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.00%) MySQL
8 2 (5.00%) Power Query
9 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
9 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (2.50%) Postman
4 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Back Office
5 2 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Azure Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Data Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) .NET Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Angular Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) .NET
2 9 (22.50%) REST
3 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (15.00%) Kafka
4 5 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 5 (12.50%) ADO
4 5 (12.50%) NumPy
4 5 (12.50%) OAuth
4 5 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 5 (12.50%) OpenID
4 5 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (12.50%) Pandas
5 3 (7.50%) CSS
5 3 (7.50%) HTML
5 3 (7.50%) Node.js
5 3 (7.50%) RESTful
6 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.00%) Express.js
6 2 (5.00%) JSON
7 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Social Media
4 1 (2.50%) TWAP
4 1 (2.50%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Agile
2 16 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 10 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.00%) Analytics
7 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
7 6 (15.00%) Microservices
8 5 (12.50%) Data Architecture
8 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 5 (12.50%) Data Science
8 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (12.50%) Quantitative Finance
8 5 (12.50%) Scrum
9 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 11 (27.50%) C#
4 6 (15.00%) Java
5 4 (10.00%) Bicep
5 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) C++
8 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Terraform
2 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Databricks
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Mercator
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft