Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Storage
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.82% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £75 - -
25th Percentile £287 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile £427 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

Azure Storage 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 393 216 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 40.39% 42.35% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 141 229
10th Percentile £313 £263 £263
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £630 £725 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £486 £475
% change year-on-year +0.15% +2.37% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 5
10th Percentile - £24.86 -
25th Percentile - £27.56 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £37.06 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +147.03% -72.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £98.08 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 £43.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
% change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure Storage

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in West Yorkshire

Azure Storage
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Leeds - 8 £388 - 1
Azure Storage
Yorkshire

Azure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Apigee
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 4 (50.00%) Security Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) JWT
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (62.50%) Manual Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
1 5 (62.50%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (12.50%) API Design
4 1 (12.50%) API Management
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Community of Practice
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Istio
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace