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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 43 30 22
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.49% 14.08% 10.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.25% 37.97% 70.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 14
10th Percentile £366 £338 £219
25th Percentile £422 £390 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.71% -11.88%
75th Percentile £597 £590 £625
90th Percentile £636 £625 £668
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £506 £529
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.26% -11.88%
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 147 79 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.45% 37.09% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 60 20
10th Percentile £306 £353 £163
25th Percentile £385 £409 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £508 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -0.98% -10.87%
75th Percentile £544 £611 £650
90th Percentile £596 £628 £653
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £484 £453
% change year-on-year -6.98% +6.79% -21.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +400.00% - -

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 16 April 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
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) GCP
3 11 (25.58%) Power Platform
4 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (9.30%) IaaS
6 4 (9.30%) PaaS
6 4 (9.30%) SaaS
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%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Internet
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%) Power BI
2 5 (11.63%) Big Data
2 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.63%) Delta Lake
3 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Metadata
5 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
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%) Redis
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Git
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.98%) GitLab
3 3 (6.98%) Postman
3 3 (6.98%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.65%) Selenium
4 2 (4.65%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Banking
3 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Senior
2 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Kafka
2 4 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.98%) LangChain
3 3 (6.98%) Node.js
3 3 (6.98%) Playwright
3 3 (6.98%) PyTorch
3 3 (6.98%) TensorFlow
4 2 (4.65%) .NET
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) SailPoint
4 2 (4.65%) SOAP
5 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.33%) Express.js
5 1 (2.33%) J2EE
5 1 (2.33%) Jest
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.33%) PySpark
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
5 1 (2.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.65%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Android
2 3 (6.98%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.98%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
2 16 (37.21%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) Agile
3 12 (27.91%) AI
4 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
4 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (23.26%) ETL
5 9 (20.93%) Analytics
5 9 (20.93%) Machine Learning
6 8 (18.60%) Data Governance
7 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (16.28%) Microservices
7 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
7 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
8 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.95%) Migration
8 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 5 (11.63%) Bash
4 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) Groovy
5 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Scala
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) COBIT
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) Terraform
2 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.30%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Packer
5 1 (2.33%) Argo
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Icinga
5 1 (2.33%) Istio
5 1 (2.33%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Databricks
2 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.30%) Google
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
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
5 1 (2.33%) Tenable
5 1 (2.33%) VMware