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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 83 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 13.81% 9.31% 14.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.32% 21.35% 80.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 16 9
10th Percentile £365 £325 £154
25th Percentile £425 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +21.21% -31.25%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £525
90th Percentile £638 £631 £575
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £500 £413
% change year-on-year +5.00% +21.21% -31.25%
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 235 89 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 39.10% 43.63% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 59 13
10th Percentile £313 £405 £163
25th Percentile £363 £428 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £594 £668 £630
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.59% -15.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £67.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +438.46% - -

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 22 July 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 7 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.82%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (68.67%) AWS
2 19 (22.89%) OCI
3 18 (21.69%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (18.07%) GCP
5 11 (13.25%) Power Platform
6 10 (12.05%) SaaS
7 8 (9.64%) Firebase
8 6 (7.23%) GitHub
9 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.82%) Google Play
9 4 (4.82%) IaaS
9 4 (4.82%) PaaS
10 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.41%) dbt
11 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.10%) Firewall
2 13 (15.66%) BGP
2 13 (15.66%) BIG-IP
2 13 (15.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (15.66%) OSPF
2 13 (15.66%) VXLAN
3 12 (14.46%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (14.46%) SD-WAN
4 11 (13.25%) WAN
5 6 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (7.23%) WLAN
6 2 (2.41%) Internet
6 2 (2.41%) VPN
7 1 (1.20%) DNS
7 1 (1.20%) IPsec
7 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.20%) Network Security
7 1 (1.20%) NGFW
7 1 (1.20%) SSL
7 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Power BI
2 3 (3.61%) Big Data
2 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.61%) Flink
2 3 (3.61%) Metadata
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.41%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) Redis
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) GitLab
2 13 (15.66%) Git
3 12 (14.46%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.84%) JIRA
5 8 (9.64%) fastlane
6 4 (4.82%) Android Studio
6 4 (4.82%) Crashlytics
6 4 (4.82%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.82%) Gradle
6 4 (4.82%) Selenium
6 4 (4.82%) Xcode
7 2 (2.41%) Postman
7 2 (2.41%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.41%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.20%) JMeter
8 1 (1.20%) MSI
8 1 (1.20%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (34.94%) Public Sector
2 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (39.76%) Senior
2 17 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (19.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Developer
5 10 (12.05%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (8.43%) Lead
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Manager
8 5 (6.02%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 5 (6.02%) Architect
8 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.82%) Android Developer
9 4 (4.82%) iOS Developer
10 3 (3.61%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) RESTful
2 7 (8.43%) Kafka
3 4 (4.82%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (4.82%) Android SDK
3 4 (4.82%) Core Data
3 4 (4.82%) iOS SDK
3 4 (4.82%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (4.82%) Retrofit
3 4 (4.82%) SwiftUI
3 4 (4.82%) UIKit
4 3 (3.61%) SOAP
5 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.41%) Playwright
5 2 (2.41%) PySpark
5 2 (2.41%) REST
5 2 (2.41%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.20%) Blazor
6 1 (1.20%) Jest
6 1 (1.20%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.89%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (12.05%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.64%) Mobile App
5 7 (8.43%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.61%) BYOD
8 2 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.41%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Android
1 8 (9.64%) Apple iOS
2 7 (8.43%) Linux
3 5 (6.02%) Windows
4 4 (4.82%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.20%) Unix
6 1 (1.20%) VMS
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (49.40%) CI/CD
2 35 (42.17%) DevOps
3 32 (38.55%) Agile
4 22 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (22.89%) Scrum
6 19 (22.89%) Zero Trust
7 16 (19.28%) Test Automation
8 15 (18.07%) Analytics
9 14 (16.87%) Data Engineering
9 14 (16.87%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (16.87%) Kanban
10 12 (14.46%) ETL
10 12 (14.46%) Load Balancing
10 12 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (14.46%) TDD
11 11 (13.25%) Architectural Patterns
11 11 (13.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 10 (12.05%) Microservices
13 9 (10.84%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.55%) Python
2 16 (19.28%) Java
3 11 (13.25%) SQL
4 6 (7.23%) Kotlin
5 5 (6.02%) Bash
6 4 (4.82%) Swift
7 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.20%) C#
9 1 (1.20%) Groovy
9 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.12%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.20%) Degree
5 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.20%) PMP
5 1 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.20%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.25%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 10 (12.05%) WCAG
3 4 (4.82%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.20%) RACF
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (36.14%) Terraform
2 21 (25.30%) Ansible
3 10 (12.05%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.41%) Grafana
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.41%) Packer
5 1 (1.20%) Kibana
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Palo Alto
2 13 (15.66%) F5
3 12 (14.46%) Arista
4 11 (13.25%) Aruba
5 10 (12.05%) Dynatrace
6 9 (10.84%) Databricks
7 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
8 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
9 5 (6.02%) Google
10 4 (4.82%) Apple
11 2 (2.41%) CyberArk
11 2 (2.41%) Oracle
11 2 (2.41%) Tenable
11 2 (2.41%) Zscaler
12 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.20%) Informatica
12 1 (1.20%) Splunk
12 1 (1.20%) Talend
12 1 (1.20%) VMware