Azure Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft Azure
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure 32 22 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 14.04% 10.63% 16.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.78% 73.33% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 35
10th Percentile £325 £363 £500
25th Percentile £366 £441 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -11.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £775
90th Percentile £625 £650 £848
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -8.45% -11.25% +11.63%

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 92 30 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.35% 14.49% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 16 120
10th Percentile £358 £366 £350
25th Percentile £425 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% -7.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £700
90th Percentile £638 - £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £494 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -1.25% -13.04% +9.52%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Jupyter
1 2 (6.25%) nginx
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) IaaS
2 6 (18.75%) PaaS
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) SMS
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.38%) Metadata
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.25%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) GitLab
2 5 (15.63%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) Selenium
4 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.25%) JIRA
5 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
5 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.13%) ERwin
6 1 (3.13%) JUnit
6 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Electronics
4 2 (6.25%) French Language
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) Data Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Project Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Project Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Designer
7 1 (3.13%) Linux Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) PySpark
2 3 (9.38%) HTML
2 3 (9.38%) pytest
2 3 (9.38%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) RESTful
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.25%) CSS
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) SOAP
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.13%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Next.js
4 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.13%) Playwright
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.13%) VMS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (25.00%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) API Integration
2 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) ERP
3 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
4 5 (15.63%) Data Transformation
5 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (12.50%) Microservices
6 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (9.38%) Data Science
6 3 (9.38%) Migration
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) SDLC
6 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.38%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (6.25%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Python
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) Bash
3 2 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) Bicep
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
3 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.25%) CRISC
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Grafana
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (3.13%) Kibana
4 1 (3.13%) logstash
4 1 (3.13%) SCCM
4 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) New Relic
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.13%) IBM