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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 63 32 22
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 12.78% 14.10% 10.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.84% 35.16% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 11
10th Percentile £366 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £366 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £494 £533
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% -7.28% -11.25%
75th Percentile £606 £574 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £488 £533
% change year-on-year +7.69% -8.45% -11.25%
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 171 91 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.69% 40.09% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 65 16
10th Percentile £306 £360 £366
25th Percentile £385 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -3.29% -7.39%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £650
90th Percentile £625 £640 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +434.15% - -

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 12 May 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 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.94%) Apache
3 3 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (71.43%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) GCP
3 12 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.46%) OCI
5 10 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (11.11%) SaaS
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (6.35%) IaaS
8 4 (6.35%) PaaS
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.76%) Google Gemini
9 3 (4.76%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.17%) Firebase
10 2 (3.17%) GitHub
10 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (3.17%) Serverless
10 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.59%) Google Play
11 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.05%) Firewall
2 8 (12.70%) BGP
2 8 (12.70%) BIG-IP
2 8 (12.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 8 (12.70%) OSPF
2 8 (12.70%) VXLAN
3 7 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 7 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 6 (9.52%) WAN
5 3 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.76%) WLAN
6 2 (3.17%) Internet
6 2 (3.17%) Network Security
6 2 (3.17%) VPN
7 1 (1.59%) DNS
7 1 (1.59%) IPsec
7 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.59%) NGFW
7 1 (1.59%) SSL
7 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Power BI
2 5 (7.94%) Big Data
2 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.94%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.35%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.17%) Metadata
5 2 (3.17%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.59%) Redis
6 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Git
1 10 (15.87%) JIRA
2 9 (14.29%) GitLab
3 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.35%) Postman
4 4 (6.35%) REST Assured
5 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.76%) Selenium
5 3 (4.76%) SoapUI
6 2 (3.17%) fastlane
7 1 (1.59%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.59%) Crashlytics
7 1 (1.59%) Gradle
7 1 (1.59%) Xcode
General
1 16 (25.40%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Senior
2 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Data Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Lead
5 7 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.94%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.94%) Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
8 4 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Lead
9 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Architect
10 2 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) Kafka
2 4 (6.35%) Playwright
2 4 (6.35%) SOAP
3 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.76%) HTML
3 3 (4.76%) LangChain
3 3 (4.76%) Node.js
3 3 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.76%) RESTful
3 3 (4.76%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.17%) .NET
4 2 (3.17%) REST
4 2 (3.17%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.59%) J2EE
5 1 (1.59%) JSON
5 1 (1.59%) LDAP
5 1 (1.59%) OAuth
5 1 (1.59%) SAML
5 1 (1.59%) Spring
5 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Android
1 4 (6.35%) Apple iOS
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.59%) VMS
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) CI/CD
2 20 (31.75%) DevOps
3 17 (26.98%) Agile
4 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (20.63%) AI
6 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (19.05%) Zero Trust
7 11 (17.46%) Analytics
7 11 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (15.87%) Data Engineering
8 10 (15.87%) ETL
8 10 (15.87%) Scrum
9 9 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.70%) Data Governance
10 8 (12.70%) Data Modelling
10 8 (12.70%) Microservices
10 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
11 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) Python
2 12 (19.05%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) Java
4 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.35%) Bash
6 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.59%) Bicep
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) Scala
8 1 (1.59%) Swift
8 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 25 (39.68%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) WCAG
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) COBIT
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (34.92%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Ansible
3 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.17%) Packer
5 1 (1.59%) Icinga
5 1 (1.59%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Palo Alto
2 9 (14.29%) Databricks
3 8 (12.70%) F5
4 7 (11.11%) Arista
5 6 (9.52%) Aruba
5 6 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.94%) Google
7 4 (6.35%) Dynatrace
7 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.17%) CyberArk
8 2 (3.17%) Oracle
8 2 (3.17%) Tenable
8 2 (3.17%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.59%) Apple
9 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.59%) Informatica
9 1 (1.59%) Talend
9 1 (1.59%) VMware