Azure Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Azure
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 33 32 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 10.41% 9.94% 15.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.84% 54.24% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 45
10th Percentile £325 £367 £445
25th Percentile £358 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -11.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £544 £641 £700
90th Percentile £625 £650 £843
England median daily rate £525 £545 £560
% change year-on-year -3.67% -2.68% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.76% -11.71%
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.75 £35.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +10.71% -41.67% +26.32%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 59 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 33.75% 18.32% 44.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 29 130
10th Percentile £318 £188 £312
25th Percentile £403 £190 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £700
90th Percentile £625 £650 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £11.44 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.77 £48.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £49.50
90th Percentile - £33.48 -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +21.43% -35.19% +50.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +3 31 £475 -10.80% 151
Azure
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) IaaS
2 6 (18.18%) PaaS
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) SaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) SMS
3 1 (3.03%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.09%) Metadata
3 2 (6.06%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
1 5 (15.15%) GitLab
2 4 (12.12%) Selenium
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.03%) ERwin
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Electronics
4 2 (6.06%) French Language
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Data Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Project Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Project Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Lead C# Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Unix Support
7 1 (3.03%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) PySpark
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
2 3 (9.09%) pytest
2 3 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) Next.js
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) Playwright
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) AIX
4 1 (3.03%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 8 (24.24%) API Integration
2 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
3 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) ERP
4 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 5 (15.15%) Data Protection
5 5 (15.15%) Data Transformation
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (9.09%) Data Science
7 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.09%) Microservices
7 3 (9.09%) SDLC
7 3 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (6.06%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Python
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) Bash
3 2 (6.06%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) CISM
3 2 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.06%) CRISC
4 1 (3.03%) CCNA
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.03%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) Docker
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Grafana
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.06%) WSUS
4 1 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) SolarWinds
2 4 (12.12%) VMware
3 3 (9.09%) Databricks
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) New Relic
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Ariba
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace