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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 68 31 22
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 13.36% 13.78% 11.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.20% 34.07% 75.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 25 11
10th Percentile £370 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £358 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £533
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -8.45% -14.80%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £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 178 91 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.97% 40.44% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 65 16
10th Percentile £318 £360 £366
25th Percentile £388 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.10% -7.39%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £650
90th Percentile £625 £625 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -8.86% -1.25% -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 19 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 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
3 3 (4.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (69.12%) AWS
2 17 (25.00%) GCP
3 13 (19.12%) OCI
4 12 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (17.65%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.29%) SaaS
6 5 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.88%) Firebase
7 4 (5.88%) IaaS
7 4 (5.88%) PaaS
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.41%) Google Gemini
8 3 (4.41%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.94%) Google Play
9 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.94%) Serverless
9 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.59%) Firewall
2 9 (13.24%) BGP
2 9 (13.24%) BIG-IP
2 9 (13.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 9 (13.24%) OSPF
2 9 (13.24%) VXLAN
3 8 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
3 8 (11.76%) SD-WAN
4 7 (10.29%) WAN
5 3 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.41%) WLAN
6 2 (2.94%) Internet
6 2 (2.94%) Network Security
6 2 (2.94%) VPN
7 1 (1.47%) DNS
7 1 (1.47%) IPsec
7 1 (1.47%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.47%) NGFW
7 1 (1.47%) SSL
7 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) Power BI
2 5 (7.35%) Big Data
2 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.35%) Delta Lake
3 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.94%) Metadata
5 2 (2.94%) MySQL
5 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.47%) Redis
6 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.47%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Git
1 10 (14.71%) GitLab
1 10 (14.71%) JIRA
2 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.88%) fastlane
3 4 (5.88%) Postman
3 4 (5.88%) REST Assured
4 3 (4.41%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.41%) Selenium
4 3 (4.41%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.94%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.94%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.94%) Gradle
5 2 (2.94%) Xcode
General
1 18 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Senior
2 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Lead
5 7 (10.29%) Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Architect
6 6 (8.82%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.82%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.82%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.35%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.88%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Agile Delivery Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) Kafka
2 5 (7.35%) RESTful
3 4 (5.88%) Playwright
3 4 (5.88%) SOAP
4 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.41%) HTML
4 3 (4.41%) LangChain
4 3 (4.41%) Node.js
4 3 (4.41%) PyTorch
4 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.94%) .NET
5 2 (2.94%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (2.94%) Android SDK
5 2 (2.94%) Core Data
5 2 (2.94%) iOS SDK
5 2 (2.94%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (2.94%) REST
5 2 (2.94%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.94%) SwiftUI
5 2 (2.94%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.94%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Android
1 5 (7.35%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.88%) Windows
3 3 (4.41%) Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (32.35%) DevOps
3 19 (27.94%) Agile
4 18 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (20.59%) Zero Trust
6 13 (19.12%) AI
6 13 (19.12%) Analytics
7 12 (17.65%) Scrum
8 11 (16.18%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.71%) Data Engineering
9 10 (14.71%) ETL
10 9 (13.24%) Machine Learning
11 8 (11.76%) Data Governance
11 8 (11.76%) Data Modelling
11 8 (11.76%) Load Balancing
11 8 (11.76%) Microservices
11 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
11 8 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.24%) Python
2 12 (17.65%) SQL
3 10 (14.71%) Java
4 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.88%) Bash
5 4 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) Swift
7 1 (1.47%) Bicep
7 1 (1.47%) C#
7 1 (1.47%) Groovy
7 1 (1.47%) Scala
7 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (42.65%) Security Cleared
2 26 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.35%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.35%) WCAG
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) COBIT
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) RACF
Systems Management
1 23 (33.82%) Terraform
2 15 (22.06%) Ansible
3 8 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.94%) Packer
5 1 (1.47%) Icinga
5 1 (1.47%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Palo Alto
2 9 (13.24%) Databricks
2 9 (13.24%) F5
3 8 (11.76%) Arista
4 7 (10.29%) Aruba
5 6 (8.82%) Dynatrace
5 6 (8.82%) Google
5 6 (8.82%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.94%) Apple
7 2 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle
7 2 (2.94%) Tenable
7 2 (2.94%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.47%) Informatica
8 1 (1.47%) Talend
8 1 (1.47%) VMware