Azure Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft Azure
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 53 30 24
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.32% 13.64% 11.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.92% 35.71% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 12
10th Percentile £363 £338 £351
25th Percentile £413 £390 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -0.71% -11.88%
75th Percentile £596 £590 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £506 £529
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.26% -11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 161 84 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.40% 38.18% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 63 18
10th Percentile £306 £358 £359
25th Percentile £386 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £529
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -1.65% -8.04%
75th Percentile £542 £613 £625
90th Percentile £597 £650 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.82% -16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £58.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.47 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +426.69% - -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (11.32%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.43%) Apache
3 3 (5.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (71.70%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) GCP
3 12 (22.64%) Power Platform
4 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (13.21%) SaaS
6 6 (11.32%) OCI
7 5 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.55%) IaaS
8 4 (7.55%) PaaS
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.66%) Google Gemini
9 3 (5.66%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (3.77%) Serverless
10 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.89%) GitHub
11 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) Firewall
2 5 (9.43%) BGP
2 5 (9.43%) BIG-IP
2 5 (9.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (9.43%) OSPF
2 5 (9.43%) VXLAN
3 4 (7.55%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (7.55%) SD-WAN
4 3 (5.66%) WAN
4 3 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.66%) WLAN
5 2 (3.77%) Internet
5 2 (3.77%) Network Security
5 2 (3.77%) VPN
6 1 (1.89%) DNS
6 1 (1.89%) IPsec
6 1 (1.89%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.89%) NGFW
6 1 (1.89%) SSL
6 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Power BI
2 5 (9.43%) Big Data
2 5 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (9.43%) Delta Lake
3 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.77%) Metadata
5 2 (3.77%) MySQL
5 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
6 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
1 9 (16.98%) JIRA
2 6 (11.32%) GitLab
3 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.55%) Postman
3 4 (7.55%) REST Assured
4 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.66%) Selenium
4 3 (5.66%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Senior
2 8 (15.09%) Data Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Lead
4 5 (9.43%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Senior Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Kafka
2 4 (7.55%) Playwright
2 4 (7.55%) SOAP
3 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.66%) HTML
3 3 (5.66%) LangChain
3 3 (5.66%) Node.js
3 3 (5.66%) PyTorch
3 3 (5.66%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.77%) .NET
4 2 (3.77%) REST
4 2 (3.77%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.89%) J2EE
5 1 (1.89%) LDAP
5 1 (1.89%) OAuth
5 1 (1.89%) OpenID
5 1 (1.89%) RESTful
5 1 (1.89%) SAML
5 1 (1.89%) Web Services
5 1 (1.89%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Android
2 3 (5.66%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.89%) VMS
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) CI/CD
2 17 (32.08%) DevOps
3 13 (24.53%) Agile
3 13 (24.53%) AI
4 11 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (18.87%) Data Engineering
5 10 (18.87%) ETL
6 9 (16.98%) Analytics
6 9 (16.98%) Machine Learning
7 8 (15.09%) Data Governance
7 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
7 8 (15.09%) Microservices
8 7 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
8 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
8 7 (13.21%) Zero Trust
9 6 (11.32%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.85%) Python
2 12 (22.64%) SQL
3 8 (15.09%) Java
4 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.55%) Bash
6 2 (3.77%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.89%) Bicep
7 1 (1.89%) C#
7 1 (1.89%) Groovy
7 1 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 21 (39.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) COBIT
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (33.96%) Terraform
2 8 (15.09%) Ansible
2 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.77%) Packer
4 1 (1.89%) Icinga
4 1 (1.89%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Databricks
2 6 (11.32%) Palo Alto
3 5 (9.43%) F5
3 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.55%) Arista
4 4 (7.55%) Google
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.66%) Aruba
6 2 (3.77%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle
6 2 (3.77%) Tenable
6 2 (3.77%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.89%) Informatica
7 1 (1.89%) Talend
7 1 (1.89%) VMware