Azure Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 132 250 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.31% 15.28% 14.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.83% 43.03% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 205 181
10th Percentile £354 £412 £331
25th Percentile £431 £463 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £598 £638 £638
90th Percentile £669 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year - +84.24% -55.90%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 288 581 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 29.03% 35.51% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 432 481
10th Percentile £275 £331 £225
25th Percentile £408 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £599 £604 £575
90th Percentile £671 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £35.40 £17.22
25th Percentile - £41.63 £17.72
Median hourly rate £15.00 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.22% +170.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £22.40
90th Percentile - £75.20 £22.51
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £43.25 £18.88
% change year-on-year -65.32% +129.14% -7.93%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Leeds +1 115 £500 -9.09% 89
Bradford -8 6 £600 +9.09% 8
Huddersfield -4 2 £500 +66.67% 3
Wakefield -7 1 £300 +33.33% 2
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.52%) Apache
2 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.76%) CMS
3 1 (0.76%) Kentico
3 1 (0.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.52%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.52%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (18.18%) AWS
3 16 (12.12%) Akamai
3 16 (12.12%) Cloudflare
4 11 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.33%) GitHub
5 9 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.06%) GCP
6 8 (6.06%) SaaS
7 7 (5.30%) IaaS
8 5 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.79%) PaaS
8 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.79%) Serverless
9 4 (3.03%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.58%) Firewall
2 7 (5.30%) DNS
3 5 (3.79%) Network Security
3 5 (3.79%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) LAN
5 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.85%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.79%) Power BI
7 4 (3.03%) Big Data
7 4 (3.03%) GIS
7 4 (3.03%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (3.03%) MySQL
7 4 (3.03%) Redis
7 4 (3.03%) Tableau
8 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.52%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.30%) Git
2 7 (5.30%) GitLab
2 7 (5.30%) JIRA
3 5 (3.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (3.03%) AppScan
4 4 (3.03%) Burp Suite
4 4 (3.03%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.52%) Subversion
6 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.76%) Maven
6 1 (0.76%) Selenium
6 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.36%) Retail
3 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.06%) Finance
5 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Banking
6 4 (3.03%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.52%) Local Government
7 2 (1.52%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.76%) Automotive
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (21.21%) Architect
2 22 (16.67%) Developer
3 17 (12.88%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 11 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (7.58%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Analyst
8 8 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Senior
10 6 (4.55%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
10 6 (4.55%) Lead
10 6 (4.55%) Security Architect
11 5 (3.79%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Security Architect
11 5 (3.79%) Environment Manager
11 5 (3.79%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.55%) .NET
2 5 (3.79%) .NET Core
2 5 (3.79%) ADO
2 5 (3.79%) SailPoint
3 4 (3.03%) Blazor
3 4 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.03%) Node.js
3 4 (3.03%) SignalR
3 4 (3.03%) Web Services
4 3 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.52%) Kafka
6 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.76%) CSS
6 1 (0.76%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.76%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.76%) HTML
6 1 (0.76%) Middleware
6 1 (0.76%) OAuth
6 1 (0.76%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) NHS
2 6 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (3.79%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.52%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Windows
2 8 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.55%) Linux
4 3 (2.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.12%) DevOps
2 34 (25.76%) Agile
3 26 (19.70%) Migration
4 18 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 17 (12.88%) Data Modelling
6 15 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 12 (9.09%) Waterfall
9 11 (8.33%) RAD
10 10 (7.58%) Analytics
10 10 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (7.58%) Project Delivery
11 9 (6.82%) Data Management
11 9 (6.82%) ETL
11 9 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (6.82%) OWASP
11 9 (6.82%) Project Management
11 9 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.70%) SQL
2 18 (13.64%) Python
3 13 (9.85%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.30%) Bash
5 5 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.27%) Java
7 2 (1.52%) C#
7 2 (1.52%) PHP
7 2 (1.52%) Scala
8 1 (0.76%) ABAP
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.76%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.55%) Degree
3 5 (3.79%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.52%) CCNA
5 2 (1.52%) CCNP
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.76%) CISM
6 1 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (10.61%) Docker
2 12 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.52%) HDFS
3 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.36%) Terraform
3 5 (3.79%) Ansible
3 5 (3.79%) Nessus
3 5 (3.79%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.79%) Puppet
4 4 (3.03%) Grafana
4 4 (3.03%) Graylog
4 4 (3.03%) HP Fortify
4 4 (3.03%) WebInspect
5 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.76%) SCCM
6 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.36%) F5
3 8 (6.06%) SAP
4 7 (5.30%) Oracle
5 5 (3.79%) Brio
5 5 (3.79%) CyberArk
5 5 (3.79%) Databricks
6 4 (3.03%) Checkmarx
6 4 (3.03%) Google
6 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.03%) Splunk
6 4 (3.03%) Veracode
6 4 (3.03%) VMware
7 3 (2.27%) Workday
8 1 (0.76%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.76%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.76%) iManage
8 1 (0.76%) Intapp
8 1 (0.76%) Thycotic
8 1 (0.76%) Zscaler