Azure Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 39 10
Rank change year-on-year +23 -29 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 95 81 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.50% 4.22% 10.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.07% 28.13% 40.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 53 148
10th Percentile £288 £220 £231
25th Percentile £405 £313 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -8.16%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £585 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £64.87 £64.50 £21.31
25th Percentile £100.00 £65.25 £24.62
Median hourly rate £103.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.25% +0.77% +85.71%
75th Percentile £200.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £68.50 £70.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £61.85
% change year-on-year +16.88% -37.75% +30.21%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 351 288 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.42% 14.99% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 167 363
10th Percentile £200 £223 £186
25th Percentile £384 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 57 33
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -25.91% +41.94%
75th Percentile £31.64 £21.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.94 £65.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Bedfordshire 0 29 £580 +6.91% 49
Hertfordshire +36 28 £644 +83.93% 107
Cambridgeshire +23 21 £513 +2.50% 106
Suffolk -8 10 £350 +55.56% 33
Essex +6 5 £375 -25.00% 86
Norfolk -3 2 £500 -4.76% 20
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (13.68%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.63%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.16%) Confluence
5 2 (2.11%) CMS
5 2 (2.11%) IBM Domino
5 2 (2.11%) IIS
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.05%) Apache
6 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.05%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.05%) SAS
6 1 (1.05%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) AWS
2 20 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (18.95%) Entra ID
4 14 (14.74%) GCP
5 11 (11.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (11.58%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.37%) OneDrive
7 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (5.26%) SaaS
8 5 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.21%) Serverless
10 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.11%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.53%) VPN
2 8 (8.42%) Firewall
3 4 (4.21%) DNS
4 3 (3.16%) BGP
4 3 (3.16%) DHCP
4 3 (3.16%) Network Security
4 3 (3.16%) OSPF
4 3 (3.16%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.16%) WAN
5 2 (2.11%) LAN
5 2 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.11%) VLAN
6 1 (1.05%) DWDM
6 1 (1.05%) HTTP
6 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.05%) IGRP
6 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.05%) SNMP
6 1 (1.05%) SSL
6 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) Big Data
2 12 (12.63%) Hadoop
2 12 (12.63%) Tableau
3 10 (10.53%) Power BI
4 8 (8.42%) Data Lake
5 7 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.05%) Flink
8 1 (1.05%) Metadata
8 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.05%) MySQL
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Artifactory
1 3 (3.16%) Git
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) Selenium
3 1 (1.05%) Appium
3 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.05%) Gatling
3 1 (1.05%) Hudson
3 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) JMeter
3 1 (1.05%) JUnit
3 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.05%) MSI
3 1 (1.05%) Postman
3 1 (1.05%) TestNG
3 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 29 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Finance
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
7 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.05%) Automotive
8 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) French Language
8 1 (1.05%) Local Government
8 1 (1.05%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.05%) Developer
2 15 (15.79%) Architect
3 12 (12.63%) Senior
4 10 (10.53%) Data Science Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Design Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) IT Support
7 5 (5.26%) Support Officer
8 4 (4.21%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 4 (4.21%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Desktop Support
8 4 (4.21%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Matplotlib
1 12 (12.63%) PyTorch
1 12 (12.63%) scikit-learn
1 12 (12.63%) Seaborn
1 12 (12.63%) TensorFlow
2 11 (11.58%) NumPy
2 11 (11.58%) Pandas
3 10 (10.53%) .NET
4 5 (5.26%) HTML
5 4 (4.21%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.21%) Entity Framework
5 4 (4.21%) React
6 3 (3.16%) CSS
6 3 (3.16%) RESTful
6 3 (3.16%) Web Services
7 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.11%) jQuery
7 2 (2.11%) Vue
7 2 (2.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.37%) Driving Licence
3 6 (6.32%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (6.32%) iPad
3 6 (6.32%) iPhone
3 6 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.26%) Life Science
5 3 (3.16%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.05%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Windows
2 8 (8.42%) Windows 10
3 7 (7.37%) Linux
4 2 (2.11%) VMS
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (24.21%) Analytics
3 19 (20.00%) DevOps
4 15 (15.79%) Data Science
4 15 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 14 (14.74%) Artificial Intelligence
5 14 (14.74%) Migration
6 13 (13.68%) Computer Science
6 13 (13.68%) Data Analysis
6 13 (13.68%) Generative AI
6 13 (13.68%) Machine Learning
6 13 (13.68%) Task Automation
7 12 (12.63%) Data Munging
7 12 (12.63%) LLM
7 12 (12.63%) Reinforcement Learning
8 10 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 10 (10.53%) Decision-Making
8 10 (10.53%) Inventory Management
8 10 (10.53%) Security Operations
8 10 (10.53%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Python
2 19 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 16 (16.84%) SQL
4 15 (15.79%) R
5 10 (10.53%) C#
6 5 (5.26%) Bash
6 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.16%) Perl
8 2 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.05%) Bicep
9 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Degree
2 14 (14.74%) Master's Degree
3 10 (10.53%) PhD
3 10 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.32%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.16%) CISSP
7 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.16%) VCAP
8 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.05%) CCDP
9 1 (1.05%) CCIE
9 1 (1.05%) CCNP
9 1 (1.05%) CCSP
9 1 (1.05%) CISA
9 1 (1.05%) CISM
9 1 (1.05%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.47%) NIST
4 8 (8.42%) GDPR
5 6 (6.32%) HIPAA
6 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.11%) PMO
8 1 (1.05%) GRC
8 1 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (1.05%) ISO 22301
8 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (1.05%) QA
8 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (27.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.26%) Docker
3 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (12.63%) Terraform
2 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.32%) Ansible
4 5 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.11%) SCCM
6 1 (1.05%) Nagios
6 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 40 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) Google
2 6 (6.32%) McAfee
3 5 (5.26%) Databricks
3 5 (5.26%) VMware
4 4 (4.21%) Ariba
4 4 (4.21%) Citrix
4 4 (4.21%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.21%) SAP
5 3 (3.16%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.16%) IBM
5 3 (3.16%) Oracle
5 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.16%) Splunk
5 3 (3.16%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.11%) Anaplan
6 2 (2.11%) Cisco
6 2 (2.11%) Huawei
6 2 (2.11%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.11%) OpenAI
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