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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 88 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 15.36% 9.22% 13.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.37% 23.81% 76.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 18 11
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £458 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -2.91% -11.25%
75th Percentile £596 £613 £600
90th Percentile £638 £629 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £517 £533
% change year-on-year +1.55% -2.91% -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 218 84 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 38.05% 38.71% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 61 16
10th Percentile £313 £400 £356
25th Percentile £368 £440 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.10% -5.96%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £650
90th Percentile £597 £638 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £529
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.44% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.50 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +434.62% - -

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 16 June 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 9 (10.23%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.95%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.82%) Apache
4 3 (3.41%) Confluence
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (65.91%) AWS
2 19 (21.59%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (21.59%) OCI
3 18 (20.45%) GCP
4 14 (15.91%) Power Platform
5 10 (11.36%) SaaS
6 8 (9.09%) Firebase
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (5.68%) GitHub
7 5 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.55%) Google Play
8 4 (4.55%) IaaS
8 4 (4.55%) PaaS
9 3 (3.41%) dbt
9 3 (3.41%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.41%) Vertex AI
10 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.27%) Prefect
10 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.73%) Firewall
2 13 (14.77%) BGP
2 13 (14.77%) BIG-IP
2 13 (14.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (14.77%) OSPF
2 13 (14.77%) VXLAN
3 12 (13.64%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (13.64%) SD-WAN
4 11 (12.50%) WAN
5 6 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (6.82%) WLAN
6 2 (2.27%) Internet
6 2 (2.27%) VPN
7 1 (1.14%) DNS
7 1 (1.14%) IPsec
7 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.14%) Network Security
7 1 (1.14%) NGFW
7 1 (1.14%) SSL
7 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Power BI
2 5 (5.68%) Big Data
2 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.68%) Delta Lake
3 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.55%) Metadata
4 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.27%) MySQL
5 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.14%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.14%) Flink
6 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Redis
6 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) GitLab
2 14 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.77%) Git
4 10 (11.36%) JIRA
5 8 (9.09%) fastlane
6 6 (6.82%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.82%) Selenium
7 4 (4.55%) Android Studio
7 4 (4.55%) Crashlytics
7 4 (4.55%) Gradle
7 4 (4.55%) Postman
7 4 (4.55%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.55%) Xcode
8 3 (3.41%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.14%) MSI
General
1 25 (28.41%) Public Sector
2 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (35.23%) Senior
2 17 (19.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 11 (12.50%) Developer
5 10 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Lead
7 7 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (6.82%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 6 (6.82%) Senior Manager
9 5 (5.68%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
10 4 (4.55%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.55%) iOS Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.41%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) RESTful
2 7 (7.95%) Kafka
3 5 (5.68%) SOAP
4 4 (4.55%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (4.55%) Android SDK
4 4 (4.55%) Core Data
4 4 (4.55%) iOS SDK
4 4 (4.55%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (4.55%) Playwright
4 4 (4.55%) Retrofit
4 4 (4.55%) SwiftUI
4 4 (4.55%) UIKit
5 3 (3.41%) HTML
5 3 (3.41%) LangChain
5 3 (3.41%) PySpark
5 3 (3.41%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.41%) REST
5 3 (3.41%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.27%) .NET
6 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (11.36%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.09%) Mobile App
5 6 (6.82%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.41%) BYOD
8 2 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.27%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Android
1 8 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 5 (5.68%) Windows
3 4 (4.55%) Linux
3 4 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.14%) VMS
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (53.41%) CI/CD
2 32 (36.36%) DevOps
3 27 (30.68%) Agile
4 23 (26.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (21.59%) Zero Trust
7 18 (20.45%) Analytics
7 18 (20.45%) Scrum
7 18 (20.45%) Test Automation
8 16 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
9 15 (17.05%) Data Engineering
10 14 (15.91%) AI
11 13 (14.77%) ETL
11 13 (14.77%) Kanban
12 12 (13.64%) Load Balancing
12 12 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (13.64%) TDD
13 11 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
14 10 (11.36%) Data Modelling
14 10 (11.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.77%) Python
2 16 (18.18%) Java
3 15 (17.05%) SQL
4 6 (6.82%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.55%) Swift
7 3 (3.41%) Bash
8 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.14%) Bicep
9 1 (1.14%) C#
9 1 (1.14%) Groovy
9 1 (1.14%) Scala
9 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (39.77%) Security Cleared
2 30 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.36%) Accessibility
3 9 (10.23%) WCAG
4 3 (3.41%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.14%) RACF
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (30.68%) Terraform
2 21 (23.86%) Ansible
3 9 (10.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.27%) Packer
5 1 (1.14%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (21.59%) Palo Alto
2 13 (14.77%) F5
3 12 (13.64%) Arista
3 12 (13.64%) Databricks
4 11 (12.50%) Aruba
5 10 (11.36%) Dynatrace
6 8 (9.09%) Google
7 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
7 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.55%) Apple
9 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.27%) Oracle
9 2 (2.27%) Tenable
9 2 (2.27%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.14%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.14%) Informatica
10 1 (1.14%) Talend
10 1 (1.14%) VMware