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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 87 20 27
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 15.29% 9.48% 13.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.55% 23.81% 79.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 18 12
10th Percentile £360 £325 £351
25th Percentile £425 £458 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £529
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -2.22% -11.88%
75th Percentile £596 £613 £575
90th Percentile £638 £629 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £517 £529
% change year-on-year +1.55% -2.22% -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 220 84 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 38.66% 39.81% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 62 16
10th Percentile £313 £401 £269
25th Percentile £363 £433 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.44% -8.04%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £596 £636 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% -9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.75 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.75 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +436.54% - -

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 23 June 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 9 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.05%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.90%) Apache
4 3 (3.45%) Confluence
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (70.11%) AWS
2 20 (22.99%) GCP
3 19 (21.84%) OCI
4 18 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (14.94%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.49%) SaaS
7 8 (9.20%) Firebase
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.60%) GitHub
8 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.60%) Google Play
8 4 (4.60%) IaaS
8 4 (4.60%) PaaS
9 3 (3.45%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.45%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.45%) Vertex AI
10 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.30%) Prefect
10 2 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.99%) Firewall
2 13 (14.94%) BGP
2 13 (14.94%) BIG-IP
2 13 (14.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (14.94%) OSPF
2 13 (14.94%) VXLAN
3 12 (13.79%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (13.79%) SD-WAN
4 11 (12.64%) WAN
5 6 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (6.90%) WLAN
6 2 (2.30%) Internet
6 2 (2.30%) VPN
7 1 (1.15%) DNS
7 1 (1.15%) IPsec
7 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.15%) Network Security
7 1 (1.15%) NGFW
7 1 (1.15%) SSL
7 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) Power BI
2 5 (5.75%) Big Data
2 5 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.60%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.45%) Metadata
4 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.30%) Flink
5 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.15%) Redis
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) GitLab
2 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.94%) Git
4 10 (11.49%) JIRA
5 8 (9.20%) fastlane
6 6 (6.90%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.90%) Selenium
7 4 (4.60%) Android Studio
7 4 (4.60%) Crashlytics
7 4 (4.60%) Gradle
7 4 (4.60%) Postman
7 4 (4.60%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.60%) Xcode
8 3 (3.45%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.30%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.15%) JMeter
10 1 (1.15%) MSI
10 1 (1.15%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (28.74%) Public Sector
2 17 (19.54%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (36.78%) Senior
2 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (18.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Lead
7 7 (8.05%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Architect
8 6 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.60%) iOS Developer
11 3 (3.45%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.45%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) RESTful
2 7 (8.05%) Kafka
3 5 (5.75%) SOAP
4 4 (4.60%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (4.60%) Android SDK
4 4 (4.60%) Core Data
4 4 (4.60%) iOS SDK
4 4 (4.60%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (4.60%) Playwright
4 4 (4.60%) Retrofit
4 4 (4.60%) SwiftUI
4 4 (4.60%) UIKit
5 3 (3.45%) HTML
5 3 (3.45%) LangChain
5 3 (3.45%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.45%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.30%) .NET
6 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.30%) REST
6 2 (2.30%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (11.49%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.20%) Mobile App
5 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.45%) BYOD
8 2 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.30%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Android
1 8 (9.20%) Apple iOS
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Linux
3 4 (4.60%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) VMS
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) CI/CD
2 32 (36.78%) DevOps
3 30 (34.48%) Agile
4 22 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (22.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (21.84%) Zero Trust
7 18 (20.69%) Scrum
7 18 (20.69%) Test Automation
8 17 (19.54%) Analytics
9 15 (17.24%) Data Engineering
9 15 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (14.94%) Kanban
11 12 (13.79%) AI
11 12 (13.79%) ETL
11 12 (13.79%) Load Balancing
11 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (13.79%) TDD
12 11 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (11.49%) Microservices
13 10 (11.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) Python
2 17 (19.54%) Java
3 14 (16.09%) SQL
4 6 (6.90%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.60%) Swift
7 3 (3.45%) Bash
8 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.15%) C#
9 1 (1.15%) Groovy
9 1 (1.15%) Scala
9 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.49%) Accessibility
3 9 (10.34%) WCAG
4 3 (3.45%) QA
5 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (11.49%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.15%) RACF
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (31.03%) Terraform
2 21 (24.14%) Ansible
3 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.30%) Packer
5 1 (1.15%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Kibana
5 1 (1.15%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (21.84%) Palo Alto
2 13 (14.94%) F5
3 12 (13.79%) Arista
4 11 (12.64%) Aruba
5 10 (11.49%) Dynatrace
6 9 (10.34%) Databricks
7 8 (9.20%) Google
8 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
9 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.60%) Apple
11 2 (2.30%) CyberArk
11 2 (2.30%) Oracle
11 2 (2.30%) Tenable
11 2 (2.30%) Zscaler
12 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.15%) Informatica
12 1 (1.15%) Splunk
12 1 (1.15%) Talend
12 1 (1.15%) VMware
49 Azure jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne