Azure Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft Azure
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 22 26 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.65% 13.68% 20.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.92% 78.79% 39.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 35
10th Percentile £325 £176 £440
25th Percentile £459 £359 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £549 £775
90th Percentile £648 £640 £848
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £534 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +4.20% -14.58% +9.09%

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 96 33 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 42.11% 17.37% 51.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 16 86
10th Percentile £404 £172 £350
25th Percentile £438 £359 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -10.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £700
90th Percentile £703 £650 £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £500 £566
% change year-on-year - -11.70% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +103.34%
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.00 - £32.25
% change year-on-year - - +96.29%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

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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 1 (4.55%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) IaaS
1 7 (31.82%) PaaS
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) Looker
2 1 (4.55%) Metadata
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) ERwin
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Military
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Project Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Project Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Designer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.55%) GatsbyJS
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Next.js
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
1 1 (4.55%) Playwright
1 1 (4.55%) React
1 1 (4.55%) REST
1 1 (4.55%) Swagger
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (13.64%) DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
2 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
2 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (13.64%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 2 (9.09%) Data Science
3 2 (9.09%) Information Security
3 2 (9.09%) Machine Learning
3 2 (9.09%) Microservices
3 2 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (9.09%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (9.09%) Security Architecture
3 2 (9.09%) Server Migrations
3 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) CISM
3 2 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (9.09%) CRISC
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.55%) Docker
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
2 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) IBM