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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 27 27 27
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.54% 14.75% 16.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.60% 38.57% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 20
10th Percentile £460 £172 £162
25th Percentile £475 £322 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £447 £461
Median % change year-on-year +23.04% -3.09% -21.49%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £582
90th Percentile £690 £608 £636
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £515 £454 £425
% change year-on-year +13.44% +6.82% -27.66%

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 125 70 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 44.17% 38.25% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 33 41
10th Percentile £300 £183 £163
25th Percentile £400 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +4.94% -29.57%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £540
90th Percentile £700 £645 £600
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £445 £400
% change year-on-year +6.74% +11.25% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £38.55 - £18.65
25th Percentile £42.38 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £50.25 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £54.06 - £32.88
90th Percentile £54.63 - £33.40
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £50.25 - £32.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.22%

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 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (40.74%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) OneDrive
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.70%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Redis
3 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.70%) Looker
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
1 3 (11.11%) Mocha
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
3 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Military
3 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Analyst
1 6 (22.22%) Desktop Specialist
1 6 (22.22%) Desktop Support
1 6 (22.22%) Desktop Support Specialist
1 6 (22.22%) IT Analyst
1 6 (22.22%) IT Support
1 6 (22.22%) IT Support Analyst
1 6 (22.22%) Senior
1 6 (22.22%) Support Analyst
1 6 (22.22%) Support Specialist
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) CSS
1 3 (11.11%) HTML
1 3 (11.11%) Jest
1 3 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (7.41%) Express.js
2 2 (7.41%) Gherkin
2 2 (7.41%) PySpark
2 2 (7.41%) React
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) SOAP
3 1 (3.70%) Spring
3 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
1 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Agile
1 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (22.22%) Inventory Management
3 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 6 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 6 (22.22%) Service Management
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Microservices
4 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Coaching
6 3 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Open Source
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.41%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (3.70%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) WCAG
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
1 6 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Grafana
3 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Databricks
2 2 (7.41%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce