Azure Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Microsoft Azure
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Halifax requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 6.98% 7.14% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% 22.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 34.88% 32.14% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £511 £191 -
25th Percentile £516 £200 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £306 £200
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +53.13% -58.33%
75th Percentile £538 £419 -
90th Percentile £545 £459 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £200.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 -
% change year-on-year -61.83% - -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Halifax

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Product Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (33.33%) Workday