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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 33 34 24
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.19% 16.67% 13.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.91% 36.96% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 15
10th Percentile £405 £325 £160
25th Percentile £450 £358 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £598 £590 £603
90th Percentile £623 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -22.73%

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 138 92 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 38.44% 45.10% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 53 34
10th Percentile £253 £325 £163
25th Percentile £385 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £407
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +22.85% -29.22%
75th Percentile £559 £613 £550
90th Percentile £600 £626 £643
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £405
% change year-on-year -10.00% +23.46% -29.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £41.95 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.89%

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) OneDrive
4 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Google Gemini
6 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.06%) Vertex AI
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.03%) dbt
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.09%) Delta Lake
1 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 3 (9.09%) Redis
2 2 (6.06%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.03%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.03%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.09%) Mocha
3 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) Postman
3 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.06%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.03%) Selenium
4 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Analyst
1 6 (18.18%) Data Engineer
1 6 (18.18%) Desktop Specialist
1 6 (18.18%) Desktop Support
1 6 (18.18%) Desktop Support Specialist
1 6 (18.18%) IT Analyst
1 6 (18.18%) IT Support
1 6 (18.18%) IT Support Analyst
1 6 (18.18%) Support Analyst
1 6 (18.18%) Support Specialist
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) Test Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) HTML
1 4 (12.12%) Node.js
2 3 (9.09%) CSS
2 3 (9.09%) Jest
2 3 (9.09%) PySpark
3 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.06%) Express.js
3 2 (6.06%) Gherkin
3 2 (6.06%) LangChain
3 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.06%) React
3 2 (6.06%) SOAP
3 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) Playwright
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
1 6 (18.18%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Inventory Management
4 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 6 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
4 6 (18.18%) Patch Management
4 6 (18.18%) Service Management
4 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (15.15%) Microservices
6 4 (12.12%) AI
6 4 (12.12%) Data Governance
6 4 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 3 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (9.09%) Front End Development
7 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.21%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (6.06%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (3.03%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) WCAG
3 1 (3.03%) COBIT
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Argo
4 1 (3.03%) Icinga
4 1 (3.03%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Databricks
3 3 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce