Azure Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Azure
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure 26 25 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.79% 11.21% 17.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.96% 64.10% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 34
10th Percentile £325 £363 £440
25th Percentile £437 £441 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -11.25% +12.41%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £775
90th Percentile £625 £650 £848
North East median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.10% -11.25% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 93 39 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 38.59% 17.49% 49.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 22 104
10th Percentile £347 £188 £350
25th Percentile £425 £364 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £700
90th Percentile £625 £650 £775
North East median daily rate £500 £488 £565
% change year-on-year +2.56% -13.72% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £13.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
% change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Tyne and Wear

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Tyne and Wear

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Tyne and Wear

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 24 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -5 24 £513 -3.76% 286
Sunderland +1 2 £438 - 36
Azure
North East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (7.69%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) IaaS
1 7 (26.92%) PaaS
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) SMS
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
1 3 (11.54%) Metadata
2 2 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) Selenium
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.85%) ERwin
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Project Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Project Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Linux Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
1 2 (7.69%) Kafka
1 2 (7.69%) PySpark
1 2 (7.69%) pytest
1 2 (7.69%) Spring
1 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) Next.js
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.85%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Swagger
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.54%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Android
4 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) VMS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Agile
1 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 5 (19.23%) DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
4 3 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.69%) Data Integration
5 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.69%) Information Security
5 2 (7.69%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (7.69%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (7.69%) Security Architecture
5 2 (7.69%) Software Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (7.69%) CISM
3 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (7.69%) CRISC
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.85%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (3.85%) NCSC
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (7.69%) Docker
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (3.85%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) SolarWinds
3 3 (11.54%) Databricks
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) SAP