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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 21 26 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.72% 16.15% 20.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.44% 55.32% 52.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 21
10th Percentile £368 £151 £375
25th Percentile £459 £203 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -15.45% -
75th Percentile £591 £604 £600
90th Percentile £716 £643 £675
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £573 £540
% change year-on-year -12.66% +6.02% -1.82%

All Cloud 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 108 47 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 50.00% 29.19% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 16 31
10th Percentile £344 £172 £325
25th Percentile £413 £393 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £632 £600
90th Percentile £648 £663 £625
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £478 £550 £474
% change year-on-year -13.18% +16.09% -13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.14%
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £36.00 - £32.25
% change year-on-year - - +68.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Azure 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (28.57%) OneDrive
3 5 (23.81%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) IaaS
4 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
1 1 (4.76%) Looker
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Postman
2 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Specialist
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Support
1 6 (28.57%) Desktop Support Specialist
1 6 (28.57%) Support Specialist
2 5 (23.81%) Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) IT Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) IT Support
3 4 (19.05%) IT Support Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Next.js
2 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.76%) Playwright
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) Swagger
2 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Inventory Management
1 6 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
1 6 (28.57%) Patch Management
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (28.57%) Service Management
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.52%) Data Science
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
5 2 (9.52%) Microservices
5 2 (9.52%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
1 8 (38.10%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds