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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 43 35 21
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 10.17% 15.77% 10.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.05% 39.77% 51.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 14
10th Percentile £389 £325 £163
25th Percentile £444 £358 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
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 148 88 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.99% 39.64% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 63 29
10th Percentile £229 £325 £163
25th Percentile £380 £371 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -28.26%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £540
90th Percentile £623 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £481 £407
% change year-on-year -6.49% +18.24% -28.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £68.47 - £16.50
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +361.54% -18.75% -

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 15 March 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 (13.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (9.30%) Apache
4 2 (4.65%) Confluence
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) AWS
2 14 (32.56%) GCP
3 11 (25.58%) Power Platform
4 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) Google Gemini
7 3 (6.98%) Vertex AI
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
8 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.33%) dbt
9 1 (2.33%) IaaS
9 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.33%) PaaS
9 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) IPsec
2 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Delta Lake
1 6 (13.95%) Power BI
2 5 (11.63%) Big Data
2 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.98%) Redis
5 2 (4.65%) Metadata
5 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.98%) Mocha
4 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) Postman
4 2 (4.65%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.65%) Selenium
4 2 (4.65%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Senior
2 8 (18.60%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Lead
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.98%) IT Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) IT Support
6 3 (6.98%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Kafka
2 5 (11.63%) HTML
3 4 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.30%) Node.js
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) Jest
4 3 (6.98%) LangChain
4 3 (6.98%) PyTorch
4 3 (6.98%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.65%) .NET
5 2 (4.65%) Express.js
5 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
5 2 (4.65%) Playwright
5 2 (4.65%) PySpark
5 2 (4.65%) React
5 2 (4.65%) SailPoint
5 2 (4.65%) SOAP
6 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.33%) REST
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
2 13 (30.23%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) AI
4 10 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (23.26%) ETL
4 10 (23.26%) Microservices
5 9 (20.93%) Analytics
5 9 (20.93%) Data Engineering
5 9 (20.93%) Data Governance
5 9 (20.93%) Machine Learning
6 8 (18.60%) Agile
6 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
7 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.63%) Coaching
9 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (11.63%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 7 (16.28%) Bash
5 6 (13.95%) Java
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) Bicep
7 2 (4.65%) Groovy
7 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.33%) C#
8 1 (2.33%) Scala
8 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (2.33%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (2.33%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) WCAG
4 1 (2.33%) COBIT
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) RACF
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
1 11 (25.58%) Terraform
2 6 (13.95%) Ansible
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.65%) Packer
5 1 (2.33%) Argo
5 1 (2.33%) Icinga
5 1 (2.33%) Istio
5 1 (2.33%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Databricks
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) Talend