Azure Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft Azure
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 101 18 46
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 14.01% 5.84% 11.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.12% 21.69% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 15 39
10th Percentile £321 £481 £298
25th Percentile £410 £498 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -7.25% +0.94%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £663
90th Percentile £684 £738 £788
South Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -12.09% -7.25% +2.02%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 83 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.05% 26.95% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 55 86
10th Percentile £315 £416 £369
25th Percentile £400 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -7.57% -1.22%
75th Percentile £537 £618 £607
90th Percentile £600 £700 £684
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -7.22% -6.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Azure job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Sheffield

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 7 (6.93%) Confluence
2 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.98%) CICS
3 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.98%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.99%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 70 (69.31%) AWS
2 62 (61.39%) GCP
3 13 (12.87%) Entra ID
3 13 (12.87%) OpenShift
4 12 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (8.91%) Azure AKS
6 9 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (8.91%) SaaS
7 8 (7.92%) GitHub
8 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.96%) Akamai
9 4 (3.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.97%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.97%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.98%) AWS KMS
11 2 (1.98%) ChatGPT
11 2 (1.98%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) Firewall
2 6 (5.94%) DNS
3 5 (4.95%) VPN
4 4 (3.96%) HTTP
4 4 (3.96%) Kerberos
4 4 (3.96%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.97%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.98%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.98%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.98%) LAN
6 2 (1.98%) NAS
6 2 (1.98%) Network Security
6 2 (1.98%) SAN
6 2 (1.98%) SSL
6 2 (1.98%) VSAN
6 2 (1.98%) WAN
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.99%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.93%) Power BI
2 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.95%) Metadata
3 5 (4.95%) MySQL
3 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.98%) DataStage
5 2 (1.98%) DB2
5 2 (1.98%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.99%) Redis
6 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (25.74%) Jenkins
1 26 (25.74%) JIRA
2 16 (15.84%) GitLab
3 15 (14.85%) Postman
4 12 (11.88%) Selenium
5 10 (9.90%) SoapUI
6 8 (7.92%) Cucumber
6 8 (7.92%) REST Assured
7 7 (6.93%) Git
8 5 (4.95%) TestRail
9 3 (2.97%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.97%) JUnit
10 2 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.98%) TestNG
10 2 (1.98%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.99%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.76%) Finance
3 19 (18.81%) Banking
4 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.95%) Law
5 5 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Police
6 2 (1.98%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
7 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (12.87%) Analyst
2 12 (11.88%) Architect
2 12 (11.88%) Developer
2 12 (11.88%) Lead
3 9 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Test Analyst
5 7 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.94%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.96%) Automation Test Lead
7 4 (3.96%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.96%) Consultant
7 4 (3.96%) Product Owner
7 4 (3.96%) Test Leader
8 3 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (2.97%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.82%) REST
2 17 (16.83%) LDAP
3 14 (13.86%) OpenID
4 9 (8.91%) SailPoint
5 8 (7.92%) OAuth
5 8 (7.92%) Regular Expression
6 7 (6.93%) Hugging Face
6 7 (6.93%) OpenCV
6 7 (6.93%) PyTorch
6 7 (6.93%) SAML
6 7 (6.93%) SpaCy
6 7 (6.93%) TensorFlow
7 6 (5.94%) .NET
7 6 (5.94%) JSON
7 6 (5.94%) Middleware
8 4 (3.96%) Kafka
8 4 (3.96%) RESTful
8 4 (3.96%) XML
9 3 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.98%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.91%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.92%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.97%) IoT
5 3 (2.97%) Replication
5 3 (2.97%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.98%) Clustering
6 2 (1.98%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.98%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.99%) FMCG
7 1 (0.99%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.99%) PDA
7 1 (0.99%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Linux
1 8 (7.92%) Windows
2 2 (1.98%) Solaris
2 2 (1.98%) Unix
2 2 (1.98%) zOS
3 1 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.99%) MVS
3 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.99%) VMS
3 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (47.52%) DevOps
2 46 (45.54%) CI/CD
3 33 (32.67%) Agile
4 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (17.82%) Roadmaps
6 17 (16.83%) API Testing
6 17 (16.83%) Containerisation
6 17 (16.83%) DevSecOps
6 17 (16.83%) Identity Access Management
6 17 (16.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (15.84%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (14.85%) Test Automation
9 14 (13.86%) Migration
10 13 (12.87%) Scrum
10 13 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.89%) ETL
11 11 (10.89%) Security Testing
12 10 (9.90%) Mentoring
12 10 (9.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.68%) Python
2 23 (22.77%) Java
2 23 (22.77%) SQL
3 6 (5.94%) Bash
3 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
3 6 (5.94%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.95%) PHP
5 4 (3.96%) Groovy
6 2 (1.98%) Go
6 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.99%) Bicep
7 1 (0.99%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) ISTQB
2 10 (9.90%) CISM
2 10 (9.90%) CISSP
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.97%) CEH
4 3 (2.97%) Degree
4 3 (2.97%) GIAC
4 3 (2.97%) GWAPT
4 3 (2.97%) SAP Certification
4 3 (2.97%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.99%) CCA
5 1 (0.99%) CCSK
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.88%) QA
2 9 (8.91%) GDPR
3 8 (7.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.92%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.93%) NIST
5 2 (1.98%) SLA
6 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (12.87%) Docker
2 11 (10.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.98%) KVM
4 2 (1.98%) NFS
4 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.99%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.99%) Snort
5 1 (0.99%) SRDF
5 1 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.99%) Xen
5 1 (0.99%) XenApp
5 1 (0.99%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (33.66%) Kubernetes
2 25 (24.75%) Terraform
3 17 (16.83%) Ansible
4 6 (5.94%) Grafana
5 4 (3.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.98%) Argo
7 2 (1.98%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.98%) Puppet
8 1 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.99%) Kibana
8 1 (0.99%) logstash
8 1 (0.99%) Podman
8 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.83%) Google
3 14 (13.86%) F5
4 10 (9.90%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.92%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (7.92%) CyberArk
5 8 (7.92%) Oracle
5 8 (7.92%) Thycotic
6 5 (4.95%) Cisco
6 5 (4.95%) VMware
7 4 (3.96%) Imperva
7 4 (3.96%) NetApp
7 4 (3.96%) SAP
7 4 (3.96%) Splunk
8 3 (2.97%) EMC
8 3 (2.97%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.98%) Alibaba
9 2 (1.98%) IBM
9 2 (1.98%) Informatica
9 2 (1.98%) Red Hat