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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 28 25 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 10.53% 14.04% 17.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.76% 37.31% 42.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 21
10th Percentile £461 £155 £163
25th Percentile £481 £316 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £395 £473
Median % change year-on-year +34.81% -16.40% -16.00%
75th Percentile £628 £552 £588
90th Percentile £664 £592 £625
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £515 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +17.05% -2.22% -20.00%

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 123 67 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 46.24% 37.64% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 30 42
10th Percentile £300 £187 £169
25th Percentile £400 £329 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +4.94% -29.57%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £548
90th Percentile £700 £629 £600
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £440 £400
% change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% -29.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £37.70 - £18.65
25th Percentile £40.25 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £48.00 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £53.25 - £32.88
90th Percentile £54.30 - £33.40
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 - £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 10 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 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (39.29%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) OneDrive
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Redis
3 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Looker
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
1 3 (10.71%) Mocha
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Postman
3 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Military
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Analyst
1 6 (21.43%) Desktop Specialist
1 6 (21.43%) Desktop Support
1 6 (21.43%) Desktop Support Specialist
1 6 (21.43%) IT Analyst
1 6 (21.43%) IT Support
1 6 (21.43%) IT Support Analyst
1 6 (21.43%) Senior
1 6 (21.43%) Support Analyst
1 6 (21.43%) Support Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
1 3 (10.71%) Jest
1 3 (10.71%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) Express.js
2 2 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 2 (7.14%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) Spring
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Agile
1 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (21.43%) Inventory Management
3 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 6 (21.43%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (21.43%) Patch Management
3 6 (21.43%) Service Management
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Microservices
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Coaching
6 3 (10.71%) Front End Development
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.71%) Open Source
6 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.14%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
1 6 (21.43%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (3.57%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Grafana
2 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Argo
3 1 (3.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce