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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 90 20 29
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 15.79% 9.43% 14.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.36% 24.10% 80.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 18 13
10th Percentile £363 £325 £195
25th Percentile £425 £458 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £596 £613 £550
90th Percentile £638 £629 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.52% -12.50%
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 223 83 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 39.12% 39.15% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 61 17
10th Percentile £313 £400 £175
25th Percentile £363 £430 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -9.09%
75th Percentile £536 £575 £550
90th Percentile £596 £638 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +438.46% - -

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 30 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.89%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.67%) Apache
4 3 (3.33%) Confluence
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (71.11%) AWS
2 21 (23.33%) GCP
3 19 (21.11%) OCI
4 18 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (14.44%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.11%) SaaS
7 8 (8.89%) Firebase
8 6 (6.67%) GitHub
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.44%) Google Play
9 4 (4.44%) IaaS
9 4 (4.44%) PaaS
9 4 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.33%) Google Gemini
10 3 (3.33%) Vertex AI
11 2 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.22%) dbt
11 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.22%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.22%) Firewall
2 13 (14.44%) BGP
2 13 (14.44%) BIG-IP
2 13 (14.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (14.44%) OSPF
2 13 (14.44%) VXLAN
3 12 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 11 (12.22%) WAN
5 6 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (6.67%) WLAN
6 2 (2.22%) Internet
6 2 (2.22%) VPN
7 1 (1.11%) DNS
7 1 (1.11%) IPsec
7 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.11%) Network Security
7 1 (1.11%) NGFW
7 1 (1.11%) SSL
7 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Power BI
2 5 (5.56%) Big Data
2 5 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.44%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.33%) Flink
4 3 (3.33%) Metadata
4 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.22%) MySQL
5 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.11%) Redis
6 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (20.00%) GitLab
2 14 (15.56%) Git
2 14 (15.56%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.11%) JIRA
4 8 (8.89%) fastlane
5 6 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.67%) Selenium
6 4 (4.44%) Android Studio
6 4 (4.44%) Crashlytics
6 4 (4.44%) Gradle
6 4 (4.44%) Postman
6 4 (4.44%) REST Assured
6 4 (4.44%) Xcode
7 3 (3.33%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.22%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.11%) JMeter
9 1 (1.11%) MSI
9 1 (1.11%) NeoLoad
General
1 27 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (35.56%) Senior
2 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (17.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Lead
7 7 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Architect
8 6 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Senior Manager
9 5 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.56%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.56%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) iOS Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) RESTful
2 8 (8.89%) Kafka
3 5 (5.56%) SOAP
4 4 (4.44%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (4.44%) Android SDK
4 4 (4.44%) Core Data
4 4 (4.44%) iOS SDK
4 4 (4.44%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (4.44%) Playwright
4 4 (4.44%) Retrofit
4 4 (4.44%) SwiftUI
4 4 (4.44%) UIKit
5 3 (3.33%) HTML
5 3 (3.33%) LangChain
5 3 (3.33%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.33%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.22%) .NET
6 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.22%) Node.js
6 2 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.11%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.89%) Mobile App
5 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.33%) BYOD
7 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.22%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Android
1 8 (8.89%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.67%) Linux
3 5 (5.56%) Windows
4 4 (4.44%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.11%) VMS
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 34 (37.78%) DevOps
3 31 (34.44%) Agile
4 22 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (21.11%) Zero Trust
7 18 (20.00%) Scrum
7 18 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.89%) Analytics
9 16 (17.78%) Data Engineering
9 16 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (14.44%) ETL
10 13 (14.44%) Kanban
11 12 (13.33%) AI
11 12 (13.33%) Load Balancing
11 12 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (13.33%) TDD
12 11 (12.22%) Architectural Patterns
12 11 (12.22%) Microservices
13 10 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.22%) Python
2 18 (20.00%) Java
3 14 (15.56%) SQL
4 6 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.56%) Bash
5 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.44%) Swift
7 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.11%) C#
8 1 (1.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Degree
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 9 (10.00%) WCAG
4 3 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.11%) RACF
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Terraform
2 21 (23.33%) Ansible
3 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.22%) Packer
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Kibana
5 1 (1.11%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Palo Alto
2 13 (14.44%) F5
3 12 (13.33%) Arista
3 12 (13.33%) Databricks
4 11 (12.22%) Aruba
5 10 (11.11%) Dynatrace
6 8 (8.89%) Google
7 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
8 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
9 4 (4.44%) Apple
10 2 (2.22%) CyberArk
10 2 (2.22%) Oracle
10 2 (2.22%) Tenable
10 2 (2.22%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.11%) Informatica
11 1 (1.11%) Splunk
11 1 (1.11%) Talend
11 1 (1.11%) VMware