Azure Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 23 44 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.18% 9.61% 13.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.83% 35.48% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 58
10th Percentile £185 £185 £475
25th Percentile £350 £241 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -27.66% +6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £700
90th Percentile £543 £624 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 124 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.18% 27.07% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 89 127
10th Percentile £185 £187 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -19.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £623 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £15.20 -
25th Percentile - £17.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.27%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
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 within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Sheffield -5 23 £450 +5.88% 39
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) CloudBees
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.35%) 4G
2 1 (4.35%) ISDN
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) MPLS
2 1 (4.35%) NAS
2 1 (4.35%) PSTN
2 1 (4.35%) SSH
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) TestRail
3 2 (8.70%) JMeter
3 2 (8.70%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) QA Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) IT Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) IT Support
3 3 (13.04%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Tester
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Senior QA Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.35%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) LDAP
1 1 (4.35%) Middleware
1 1 (4.35%) RESTful
1 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) SCADA
1 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) AIX
3 1 (4.35%) Solaris
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Migration
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (13.04%) ERP
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Testing
6 2 (8.70%) B2B
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.70%) ETL
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) SDLC
6 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) ActionScript
3 2 (8.70%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Korn
4 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.35%) Perl
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CISSP
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CISA
2 1 (4.35%) CISM
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Nagios
3 1 (4.35%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
2 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.70%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (4.35%) Centrify
4 1 (4.35%) Commvault
4 1 (4.35%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Okta
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Thycotic
4 1 (4.35%) Veritas