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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 80 19 26
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 12.50% 9.09% 16.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.89% 18.27% 55.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 8 6
10th Percentile £363 £368 £151
25th Percentile £413 £459 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -14.68%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £604
90th Percentile £638 £716 £643
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £500 £573
% change year-on-year - -12.66% +7.51%

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 259 104 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.47% 49.76% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 61 16
10th Percentile £313 £369 £172
25th Percentile £363 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £500 £575 £632
90th Percentile £575 £650 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £478 £550
% change year-on-year -10.99% -13.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 0
10th Percentile £62.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.44% - -

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 15 September 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 4 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 51 (63.75%) AWS
2 20 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (23.75%) OCI
4 12 (15.00%) GCP
5 11 (13.75%) SaaS
6 9 (11.25%) Power Platform
7 8 (10.00%) Firebase
8 7 (8.75%) GitHub
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.00%) Google Play
10 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.75%) IaaS
10 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.75%) PaaS
10 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (28.75%) Firewall
2 13 (16.25%) BGP
2 13 (16.25%) BIG-IP
2 13 (16.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (16.25%) OSPF
2 13 (16.25%) VXLAN
3 12 (15.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (15.00%) SD-WAN
4 11 (13.75%) WAN
5 6 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (7.50%) WLAN
6 3 (3.75%) DNS
7 2 (2.50%) Internet
8 1 (1.25%) Network Security
8 1 (1.25%) NGFW
8 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.75%) Flink
3 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.50%) Metadata
3 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) GitLab
2 18 (22.50%) Git
3 11 (13.75%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.25%) JIRA
5 8 (10.00%) fastlane
6 4 (5.00%) Android Studio
6 4 (5.00%) Crashlytics
6 4 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.00%) Gradle
6 4 (5.00%) Selenium
6 4 (5.00%) Xcode
7 2 (2.50%) Postman
7 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.50%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.25%) JMeter
8 1 (1.25%) MSI
8 1 (1.25%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Finance
5 1 (1.25%) French Language
5 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Senior
2 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) Developer
3 16 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Lead
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.00%) iOS Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Node.js Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.50%) Terraform
2 10 (12.50%) RESTful
3 5 (6.25%) .NET
3 5 (6.25%) Kafka
4 4 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (5.00%) Android SDK
4 4 (5.00%) Core Data
4 4 (5.00%) iOS SDK
4 4 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (5.00%) REST
4 4 (5.00%) Retrofit
4 4 (5.00%) SwiftUI
4 4 (5.00%) UIKit
4 4 (5.00%) Web Services
5 3 (3.75%) Node.js
5 3 (3.75%) React
5 3 (3.75%) SOAP
6 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.50%) Playwright
6 2 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.75%) Product Ownership
4 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
5 8 (10.00%) Mobile App
6 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.75%) BYOD
7 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.50%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Android
1 8 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.25%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.25%) Unix
5 1 (1.25%) VMS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 38 (47.50%) DevOps
3 37 (46.25%) Agile
4 26 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (26.25%) Scrum
6 20 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 19 (23.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (23.75%) Zero Trust
8 15 (18.75%) Kanban
8 15 (18.75%) Load Balancing
9 14 (17.50%) API Integration
10 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (15.00%) TDD
11 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (13.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 10 (12.50%) Analytics
12 10 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (12.50%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) Java
3 9 (11.25%) SQL
4 5 (6.25%) Bash
4 5 (6.25%) C#
4 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.00%) Swift
6 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (36.25%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PMP
5 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.75%) WCAG
3 5 (6.25%) QA
4 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) Ansible
2 11 (13.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) Grafana
4 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Palo Alto
2 13 (16.25%) F5
3 12 (15.00%) Arista
4 11 (13.75%) Aruba
5 8 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (8.75%) Databricks
6 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
7 6 (7.50%) Google
8 4 (5.00%) Apple
8 4 (5.00%) UiPath
9 2 (2.50%) Tenable
9 2 (2.50%) VMware
10 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.25%) Sage
10 1 (1.25%) Splunk