Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 38 55
Rank change year-on-year -58 +17 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.45% 0.37% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.43% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £213
25th Percentile £513 £481 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £350
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +46.43% -41.67%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £425
90th Percentile - - £455
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +3.03% -25.00% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 782 235 416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.76% 87.69% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 155 248
10th Percentile £345 £167 £312
25th Percentile £413 £334 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £645 £682
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 17
10th Percentile £14.98 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +20.44% +22.37% -25.34%
75th Percentile £22.33 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 - £26.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £14.41
% change year-on-year +13.73% +67.86% -34.52%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
Sheffield -57 4 £525 +2.44% 3
Azure Engineer
Yorkshire

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 10 February 2026, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Alibaba
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Bicep
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Alibaba
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk