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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 81 29 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 12.64% 11.98% 15.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.15% 23.20% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 10 9
10th Percentile £363 £423 £154
25th Percentile £425 £466 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -35.19%
75th Percentile £605 £562 £454
90th Percentile £638 £664 £590
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £500 £395
% change year-on-year - +26.58% -20.80%

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 260 125 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.56% 51.65% 35.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 76 24
10th Percentile £313 £319 £224
25th Percentile £363 £412 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +15.61% +5.75%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £559
90th Percentile £600 £700 £624
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -15.00% +12.36% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 0
10th Percentile £61.75 £36.85 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% - -
75th Percentile - £47.63 -
90th Percentile - £49.95 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 14 October 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 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.70%) Confluence
3 2 (2.47%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 51 (62.96%) AWS
2 21 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (23.46%) OCI
4 15 (18.52%) GCP
5 10 (12.35%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.88%) Firebase
6 8 (9.88%) SaaS
7 7 (8.64%) GitHub
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.94%) Google Play
9 3 (3.70%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.47%) dbt
10 2 (2.47%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 23 (28.40%) Firewall
2 13 (16.05%) BGP
2 13 (16.05%) BIG-IP
2 13 (16.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (16.05%) OSPF
2 13 (16.05%) VXLAN
3 12 (14.81%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (14.81%) SD-WAN
4 11 (13.58%) WAN
5 6 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (7.41%) WLAN
6 3 (3.70%) DNS
7 1 (1.23%) Network Security
7 1 (1.23%) NGFW
7 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Power BI
2 3 (3.70%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.70%) Flink
2 3 (3.70%) Metadata
3 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (25.93%) GitLab
2 14 (17.28%) Git
3 11 (13.58%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.88%) fastlane
5 4 (4.94%) Android Studio
5 4 (4.94%) Crashlytics
5 4 (4.94%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.94%) Gradle
5 4 (4.94%) JIRA
5 4 (4.94%) Selenium
5 4 (4.94%) Xcode
6 2 (2.47%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.23%) JMeter
7 1 (1.23%) MSI
7 1 (1.23%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.23%) Postman
7 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (45.68%) Public Sector
2 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 17 (20.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Finance
6 1 (1.23%) French Language
6 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (32.10%) Senior
2 16 (19.75%) Developer
2 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (19.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Architect
5 6 (7.41%) Lead
6 5 (6.17%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Android Developer
7 4 (4.94%) iOS Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.70%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Senior QA Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (12.35%) RESTful
3 8 (9.88%) Web Services
4 6 (7.41%) .NET
4 6 (7.41%) Kafka
5 5 (6.17%) REST
6 4 (4.94%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (4.94%) Android SDK
6 4 (4.94%) Core Data
6 4 (4.94%) iOS SDK
6 4 (4.94%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (4.94%) Retrofit
6 4 (4.94%) SwiftUI
6 4 (4.94%) UIKit
7 3 (3.70%) LangChain
7 3 (3.70%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (3.70%) React
7 3 (3.70%) SOAP
8 2 (2.47%) Node.js
8 2 (2.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.46%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.58%) Product Ownership
4 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
4 10 (12.35%) Mobile App
5 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.70%) BYOD
7 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.47%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Android
2 5 (6.17%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.47%) Windows
4 1 (1.23%) CentOS
4 1 (1.23%) macOS
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Unix
4 1 (1.23%) VMS
4 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 44 (54.32%) DevOps
3 37 (45.68%) Agile
4 30 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (23.46%) Zero Trust
6 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (22.22%) Scrum
7 16 (19.75%) Kanban
7 16 (19.75%) Test Automation
8 15 (18.52%) API Integration
8 15 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
8 15 (18.52%) Load Balancing
9 14 (17.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (14.81%) High Availability
11 12 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (13.58%) Data Engineering
12 11 (13.58%) Microservices
12 11 (13.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.21%) Python
2 12 (14.81%) Java
3 10 (12.35%) SQL
4 7 (8.64%) Bash
5 6 (7.41%) C#
6 4 (4.94%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.94%) Swift
7 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (9.88%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMP
7 1 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.35%) WCAG
3 5 (6.17%) QA
4 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.94%) NCSC
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (27.16%) Ansible
2 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.64%) Grafana
4 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.70%) Kibana
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Palo Alto
2 13 (16.05%) F5
3 12 (14.81%) Arista
4 11 (13.58%) Aruba
5 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 8 (9.88%) Dynatrace
7 7 (8.64%) Databricks
7 7 (8.64%) Google
8 5 (6.17%) UiPath
9 4 (4.94%) Apple
10 2 (2.47%) OneLogin
10 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.47%) Tenable
11 1 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.23%) Oracle
11 1 (1.23%) Sage
11 1 (1.23%) Splunk
11 1 (1.23%) VMware