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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 38 32 22
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.62% 14.75% 11.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.68% 35.16% 48.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 14
10th Percentile £361 £325 £163
25th Percentile £422 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -8.45% -4.27%
75th Percentile £596 £590 £614
90th Percentile £604 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £488 £533
% change year-on-year -2.56% -8.45% -3.18%

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 148 91 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 37.47% 41.94% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 54 32
10th Percentile £253 £325 £169
25th Percentile £369 £369 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +18.86% -23.91%
75th Percentile £550 £620 £558
90th Percentile £600 £650 £648
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £508 £412
% change year-on-year -11.33% +23.18% -28.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £41.95 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.89%

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 29 January 2026.

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 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.89%) Apache
3 3 (7.89%) Confluence
4 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
2 13 (34.21%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (21.05%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) OneDrive
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.89%) Google Gemini
6 3 (7.89%) Vertex AI
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.63%) dbt
8 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
8 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Delta Lake
2 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
2 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) Redis
3 2 (5.26%) Big Data
3 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 2 (5.26%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.63%) Metadata
4 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 3 (7.89%) JIRA
3 3 (7.89%) Mocha
3 3 (7.89%) Postman
3 3 (7.89%) REST Assured
3 3 (7.89%) SoapUI
4 2 (5.26%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Analyst
1 6 (15.79%) Data Engineer
1 6 (15.79%) Desktop Specialist
1 6 (15.79%) Desktop Support
1 6 (15.79%) Desktop Support Specialist
1 6 (15.79%) IT Analyst
1 6 (15.79%) IT Support
1 6 (15.79%) IT Support Analyst
1 6 (15.79%) Support Analyst
1 6 (15.79%) Support Specialist
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
2 5 (13.16%) Test Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) HTML
2 4 (10.53%) Node.js
3 3 (7.89%) CSS
3 3 (7.89%) Jest
3 3 (7.89%) Kafka
3 3 (7.89%) LangChain
3 3 (7.89%) PySpark
3 3 (7.89%) PyTorch
3 3 (7.89%) SOAP
3 3 (7.89%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.26%) Express.js
4 2 (5.26%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.26%) Playwright
4 2 (5.26%) React
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) JSON
5 1 (2.63%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) Spring
5 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
1 6 (15.79%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
2 9 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (21.05%) Agile
3 8 (21.05%) AI
3 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) DevOps
4 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
5 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
5 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.79%) Inventory Management
5 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
5 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 6 (15.79%) Microservices
5 6 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
5 6 (15.79%) Patch Management
5 6 (15.79%) Service Management
6 5 (13.16%) Data Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (10.53%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.53%) Bash
5 4 (10.53%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) Groovy
7 1 (2.63%) Scala
7 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (2.63%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.26%) WCAG
4 1 (2.63%) COBIT
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
2 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.42%) Terraform
3 4 (10.53%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Grafana
4 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Icinga
5 1 (2.63%) Istio
5 1 (2.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Databricks
2 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce