Hybrid/Remote Azure Storage Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Storage
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 284 285 361
Rank change year-on-year +1 +76 +175
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 24 47 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 0.98% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 37
10th Percentile £357 £407 £455
25th Percentile £382 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £583 £610
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% -4.51% -2.40%
75th Percentile £519 £608 £688
90th Percentile £605 - £746
UK median daily rate £445 £593 £610
% change year-on-year -24.89% -2.87% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,141 4,819 7,892
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.17% 37.88% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 3,314 5,849
10th Percentile £337 £340 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £786 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 40 127
10th Percentile £20.50 £14.53 £16.40
25th Percentile £27.51 £23.69 £22.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -28.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £66.13 £61.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.50 £77.77
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

Azure Storage
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Storage trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Azure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Azure Storage

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Azure Storage daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Storage
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 2 (8.33%) ArcGIS
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 8 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 8 (33.33%) Serverless
5 7 (29.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (29.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (29.17%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (29.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (25.00%) Azure AKS
7 5 (20.83%) Azure API Management
8 4 (16.67%) Azure App Service
8 4 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (16.67%) GitHub
8 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (16.67%) IaaS
8 4 (16.67%) PaaS
9 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) Network Security
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) NAS
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) GIS
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Spatial Data
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
2 1 (4.17%) Mockito
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Law
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
6 2 (8.33%) GIS Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Support
7 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Senior
7 1 (4.17%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (4.17%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) ARM Templates
2 8 (33.33%) ADO
3 5 (20.83%) YAML
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.17%) Java EE
4 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.17%) RAML
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Swagger
4 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.17%) WireMock
4 1 (4.17%) WSDL
4 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) VMS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (54.17%) DevOps
4 10 (41.67%) Analytics
4 10 (41.67%) Containerisation
5 9 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 8 (33.33%) Migration
7 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (25.00%) Log Analytics
9 5 (20.83%) API Management
9 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
9 5 (20.83%) RBAC
9 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (16.67%) Agile
10 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Bicep
2 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
3 9 (37.50%) Bash
3 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 7 (29.17%) Python
5 3 (12.50%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) VB
6 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (8.33%) Degree
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) HL7
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 10 (41.67%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (37.50%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) SCCM
4 1 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) EMC
3 2 (8.33%) NetApp
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.17%) Pure Storage
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) VMware