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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 84 25 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 13.31% 10.96% 16.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.06% 20.83% 49.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 10 8
10th Percentile £368 £423 £153
25th Percentile £425 £466 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +25.16% -27.36%
75th Percentile £607 £562 £591
90th Percentile £638 £664 £630
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £500 £454
% change year-on-year - +10.13% -15.93%

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 262 120 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 41.52% 52.63% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 72 19
10th Percentile £313 £339 £181
25th Percentile £363 £422 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £514 £575 £623
90th Percentile £598 £649 £655
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +25.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 0
10th Percentile £60.75 - -
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 30 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.38%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 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
2 1 (1.19%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 56 (66.67%) AWS
2 19 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (22.62%) OCI
3 16 (19.05%) GCP
4 11 (13.10%) SaaS
5 9 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.52%) Firebase
7 7 (8.33%) GitHub
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.76%) Google Play
9 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.57%) IaaS
9 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.57%) PaaS
9 3 (3.57%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (27.38%) 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 3 (3.57%) DNS
7 2 (2.38%) Internet
8 1 (1.19%) Network Security
8 1 (1.19%) NGFW
8 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.57%) Flink
2 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.38%) Metadata
3 2 (2.38%) Redis
4 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) GitLab
2 17 (20.24%) Git
3 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.52%) fastlane
5 7 (8.33%) JIRA
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%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.19%) JMeter
8 1 (1.19%) MSI
8 1 (1.19%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.19%) Postman
8 1 (1.19%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Finance
6 1 (1.19%) French Language
6 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (35.71%) Senior
2 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (19.05%) Developer
3 16 (19.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Lead
6 6 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.76%) Android Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Architect
8 4 (4.76%) iOS Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.57%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (36.90%) Terraform
2 10 (11.90%) RESTful
3 6 (7.14%) Kafka
3 6 (7.14%) Web Services
4 5 (5.95%) .NET
4 5 (5.95%) REST
5 4 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (4.76%) Android SDK
5 4 (4.76%) Core Data
5 4 (4.76%) iOS SDK
5 4 (4.76%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (4.76%) Retrofit
5 4 (4.76%) SwiftUI
5 4 (4.76%) UIKit
6 3 (3.57%) Node.js
6 3 (3.57%) React
6 3 (3.57%) SOAP
7 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.38%) LlamaIndex
7 2 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.10%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.10%) Product Ownership
4 10 (11.90%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.57%) BYOD
6 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.38%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Android
1 8 (9.52%) Apple iOS
2 6 (7.14%) Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Windows
4 4 (4.76%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.19%) CentOS
6 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.19%) Unix
6 1 (1.19%) VMS
6 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) CI/CD
2 43 (51.19%) DevOps
3 37 (44.05%) Agile
4 30 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (22.62%) Scrum
5 19 (22.62%) Test Automation
5 19 (22.62%) Zero Trust
6 15 (17.86%) Load Balancing
7 14 (16.67%) API Integration
7 14 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (16.67%) Kanban
8 13 (15.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 12 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 12 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (14.29%) TDD
10 11 (13.10%) Containerisation
10 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (13.10%) High Availability
10 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.48%) Python
2 12 (14.29%) Java
3 10 (11.90%) SQL
4 7 (8.33%) Bash
5 5 (5.95%) C#
6 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.76%) Swift
7 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PMP
6 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.10%) WCAG
3 5 (5.95%) QA
4 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.38%) NCSC
6 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.19%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (26.19%) Ansible
2 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.33%) Grafana
4 6 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.57%) Kibana
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Palo Alto
2 13 (15.48%) F5
3 12 (14.29%) Arista
4 11 (13.10%) Aruba
5 8 (9.52%) Dynatrace
5 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
6 7 (8.33%) Databricks
7 6 (7.14%) Google
7 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.76%) Apple
8 4 (4.76%) UiPath
9 2 (2.38%) OneLogin
9 2 (2.38%) Tenable
9 2 (2.38%) VMware
10 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.19%) Oracle
10 1 (1.19%) Sage
10 1 (1.19%) Splunk