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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 86 19 26
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 14.12% 9.55% 16.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.25% 21.11% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 16 10
10th Percentile £368 £325 £155
25th Percentile £425 £450 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £394
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +26.98% -34.38%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £525
90th Percentile £638 £631 £563
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £500 £394
% change year-on-year +5.00% +26.98% -34.38%
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 244 90 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.07% 45.23% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 60 15
10th Percentile £313 £406 £169
25th Percentile £363 £425 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £594 £659 £610
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
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 28 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 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.98%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.65%) Apache
4 2 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (68.60%) AWS
2 19 (22.09%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (22.09%) OCI
3 16 (18.60%) GCP
4 12 (13.95%) Power Platform
5 10 (11.63%) SaaS
6 8 (9.30%) Firebase
7 6 (6.98%) GitHub
8 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.65%) Google Play
8 4 (4.65%) IaaS
8 4 (4.65%) PaaS
9 3 (3.49%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (23.26%) Firewall
2 13 (15.12%) BGP
2 13 (15.12%) BIG-IP
2 13 (15.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (15.12%) OSPF
2 13 (15.12%) VXLAN
3 12 (13.95%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (13.95%) SD-WAN
4 11 (12.79%) WAN
5 6 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (6.98%) WLAN
6 2 (2.33%) Internet
6 2 (2.33%) VPN
7 1 (1.16%) DNS
7 1 (1.16%) IPsec
7 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.16%) Network Security
7 1 (1.16%) NGFW
7 1 (1.16%) SSL
7 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) Power BI
2 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.49%) Big Data
3 3 (3.49%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.49%) Flink
3 3 (3.49%) Metadata
4 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.33%) MySQL
4 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) Redis
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) GitLab
2 15 (17.44%) Git
3 12 (13.95%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.47%) JIRA
5 8 (9.30%) fastlane
6 4 (4.65%) Android Studio
6 4 (4.65%) Crashlytics
6 4 (4.65%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.65%) Gradle
6 4 (4.65%) Selenium
6 4 (4.65%) Xcode
7 2 (2.33%) Postman
7 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.33%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.16%) JMeter
8 1 (1.16%) MSI
8 1 (1.16%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (37.21%) Public Sector
2 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (38.37%) Senior
2 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (18.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (16.28%) Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (8.14%) Lead
7 6 (6.98%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 6 (6.98%) Senior Manager
8 5 (5.81%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.81%) Architect
8 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.65%) Android Developer
9 4 (4.65%) iOS Developer
10 3 (3.49%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Architect
10 3 (3.49%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) RESTful
2 8 (9.30%) Kafka
3 4 (4.65%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (4.65%) Android SDK
3 4 (4.65%) Core Data
3 4 (4.65%) iOS SDK
3 4 (4.65%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (4.65%) Node.js
3 4 (4.65%) Retrofit
3 4 (4.65%) SwiftUI
3 4 (4.65%) UIKit
4 3 (3.49%) React
4 3 (3.49%) REST
4 3 (3.49%) SOAP
5 2 (2.33%) .NET
5 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.33%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (12.79%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
4 8 (9.30%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.49%) BYOD
7 2 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Android
1 8 (9.30%) Apple iOS
2 7 (8.14%) Linux
3 5 (5.81%) Windows
4 4 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.16%) Unix
6 1 (1.16%) VMS
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 37 (43.02%) DevOps
3 35 (40.70%) Agile
4 24 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (24.42%) Scrum
6 20 (23.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (22.09%) Zero Trust
8 16 (18.60%) Test Automation
9 15 (17.44%) Analytics
9 15 (17.44%) Kanban
10 14 (16.28%) Data Engineering
10 14 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (13.95%) ETL
11 12 (13.95%) Load Balancing
11 12 (13.95%) Microservices
11 12 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (13.95%) TDD
12 11 (12.79%) Architectural Patterns
12 11 (12.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 10 (11.63%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.21%) Python
2 17 (19.77%) Java
3 12 (13.95%) SQL
4 6 (6.98%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.81%) Bash
5 5 (5.81%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.65%) Swift
7 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.33%) C#
8 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (36.05%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.16%) Degree
5 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.16%) PMP
5 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.16%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) Accessibility
2 11 (12.79%) WCAG
3 10 (11.63%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.81%) QA
5 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.16%) RACF
3 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (36.05%) Terraform
2 21 (24.42%) Ansible
3 11 (12.79%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.33%) Packer
5 1 (1.16%) Kibana
5 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (22.09%) Palo Alto
2 13 (15.12%) F5
3 12 (13.95%) Arista
4 11 (12.79%) Aruba
5 10 (11.63%) Dynatrace
6 9 (10.47%) Databricks
7 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
8 6 (6.98%) Google
8 6 (6.98%) ServiceNow
9 4 (4.65%) Apple
10 2 (2.33%) CyberArk
10 2 (2.33%) Oracle
10 2 (2.33%) Tenable
10 2 (2.33%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.16%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.16%) Informatica
11 1 (1.16%) Splunk
11 1 (1.16%) Talend
11 1 (1.16%) UiPath
11 1 (1.16%) VMware