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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 31 24 26
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 12.35% 14.04% 17.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.41% 40.68% 40.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 20
10th Percentile £451 £154 £163
25th Percentile £472 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £350 £499
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -29.82% -11.33%
75th Percentile £609 £454 £591
90th Percentile £638 £590 £636
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £395 £450
% change year-on-year +26.58% -12.22% -18.18%

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 127 59 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 50.60% 34.50% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 23 41
10th Percentile £290 £212 £225
25th Percentile £400 £333 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +4.94% -27.19%
75th Percentile £575 £543 £550
90th Percentile £700 £625 £600
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £440 £400
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £36.85 - £18.65
25th Percentile £38.13 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £47.63 - £32.88
90th Percentile £49.95 - £33.40
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £42.00 - £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 27 October 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 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (35.48%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) OneDrive
4 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.45%) IaaS
5 2 (6.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Redis
3 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.23%) Looker
4 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
1 3 (9.68%) Mocha
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Postman
3 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Military
3 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Desktop Specialist
2 6 (19.35%) Desktop Support
2 6 (19.35%) Desktop Support Specialist
2 6 (19.35%) IT Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) IT Support
2 6 (19.35%) IT Support Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Support Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Support Specialist
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) HTML
1 4 (12.90%) Node.js
2 3 (9.68%) CSS
2 3 (9.68%) Jest
2 3 (9.68%) React
3 2 (6.45%) Express.js
3 2 (6.45%) Gherkin
3 2 (6.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.23%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) Next.js
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Playwright
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) Swagger
4 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.23%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows
2 6 (19.35%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.81%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 6 (19.35%) Inventory Management
4 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
4 6 (19.35%) Mobile Device Management
4 6 (19.35%) Patch Management
4 6 (19.35%) Service Management
4 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) Microservices
5 5 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (12.90%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (9.68%) Coaching
7 3 (9.68%) Data Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Front End Development
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (9.68%) Open Source
7 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) Bicep
6 1 (3.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (3.23%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) WCAG
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
1 8 (25.81%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Grafana
2 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Argo
3 1 (3.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Databricks
3 2 (6.45%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds