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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 84 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 13.91% 9.14% 16.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.29% 19.78% 78.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 15 9
10th Percentile £363 £438 £154
25th Percentile £413 £459 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +33.33% -37.50%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £525
90th Percentile £638 £633 £575
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £513 £517 £394
% change year-on-year -0.87% +31.30% -34.38%

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 245 91 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.56% 46.19% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 61 14
10th Percentile £313 £410 £166
25th Percentile £363 £440 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £520 £431
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +20.58% -17.86%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £544
90th Percentile £594 £650 £620
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
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 4 August 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.76%) Apache
4 2 (2.38%) Confluence
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.86%) AWS
2 20 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (22.62%) OCI
4 15 (17.86%) GCP
5 12 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 9 (10.71%) SaaS
7 8 (9.52%) Firebase
8 6 (7.14%) GitHub
9 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.76%) Google Play
10 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.57%) IaaS
10 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.57%) PaaS
10 3 (3.57%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.38%) dbt
11 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 20 (23.81%) Firewall
2 13 (15.48%) BGP
2 13 (15.48%) BIG-IP
2 13 (15.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (15.48%) OSPF
2 13 (15.48%) VXLAN
3 12 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 11 (13.10%) WAN
5 6 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (7.14%) WLAN
6 2 (2.38%) Internet
6 2 (2.38%) VPN
7 1 (1.19%) DNS
7 1 (1.19%) Network Security
7 1 (1.19%) NGFW
7 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Power BI
2 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.57%) Flink
4 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.38%) Big Data
4 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.38%) Metadata
5 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) GitLab
2 16 (19.05%) Git
3 12 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.71%) JIRA
5 8 (9.52%) fastlane
6 4 (4.76%) Android Studio
6 4 (4.76%) Crashlytics
6 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.76%) Gradle
6 4 (4.76%) Selenium
6 4 (4.76%) Xcode
7 2 (2.38%) Postman
7 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.38%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.19%) JMeter
8 1 (1.19%) MSI
8 1 (1.19%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (38.10%) Senior
2 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (19.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (16.67%) Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (8.33%) Lead
7 6 (7.14%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 6 (7.14%) Senior Manager
8 5 (5.95%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Android Developer
9 4 (4.76%) iOS Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Architect
10 3 (3.57%) Node.js Developer
10 3 (3.57%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) RESTful
2 7 (8.33%) Kafka
3 4 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (4.76%) Android SDK
3 4 (4.76%) Core Data
3 4 (4.76%) iOS SDK
3 4 (4.76%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (4.76%) Node.js
3 4 (4.76%) Retrofit
3 4 (4.76%) SwiftUI
3 4 (4.76%) UIKit
4 3 (3.57%) React
4 3 (3.57%) REST
4 3 (3.57%) SOAP
5 2 (2.38%) .NET
5 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.38%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.38%) Spring
5 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.10%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 8 (9.52%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.57%) BYOD
7 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Android
1 8 (9.52%) Apple iOS
2 7 (8.33%) Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Windows
4 4 (4.76%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.19%) Unix
6 1 (1.19%) VMS
6 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 36 (42.86%) DevOps
3 35 (41.67%) Agile
4 24 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (25.00%) Scrum
6 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (22.62%) Zero Trust
7 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 15 (17.86%) Kanban
9 14 (16.67%) Analytics
10 13 (15.48%) Data Engineering
10 13 (15.48%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (14.29%) Load Balancing
11 12 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (14.29%) TDD
12 11 (13.10%) ETL
12 11 (13.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 10 (11.90%) API Integration
13 10 (11.90%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (11.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) Python
2 17 (20.24%) Java
3 10 (11.90%) SQL
4 6 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.95%) Bash
5 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.76%) Swift
7 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.38%) C#
9 1 (1.19%) Groovy
9 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.19%) PMP
5 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.10%) WCAG
3 9 (10.71%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.95%) QA
5 1 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.19%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (35.71%) Terraform
2 21 (25.00%) Ansible
3 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.38%) Grafana
5 2 (2.38%) Packer
6 1 (1.19%) Kibana
6 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Palo Alto
2 13 (15.48%) F5
3 12 (14.29%) Arista
4 11 (13.10%) Aruba
5 10 (11.90%) Dynatrace
6 9 (10.71%) Databricks
7 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
8 6 (7.14%) Google
8 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.76%) Apple
10 2 (2.38%) CyberArk
10 2 (2.38%) Tenable
10 2 (2.38%) UiPath
10 2 (2.38%) VMware
10 2 (2.38%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.19%) Oracle
11 1 (1.19%) Splunk