Azure Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 73 131 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.32% 13.11% 15.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.54% 44.86% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 87 205
10th Percentile £263 £354 £412
25th Percentile £325 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £503 £598 £638
90th Percentile £550 £669 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - +84.24%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 239 292 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.61% 29.23% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 203 432
10th Percentile £263 £280 £331
25th Percentile £375 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £604
90th Percentile £684 £669 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £29.90 - £35.40
25th Percentile £31.69 - £41.63
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%
75th Percentile £99.42 - £68.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £75.20
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds -6 62 £425 -15.00% 112
Halifax - 3 £550 -
Bradford +6 2 £670 +11.67% 8
Mirfield - 2 £275 -
Calderdale - 2 £375 -
Huddersfield +3 1 £320 -36.00% 3
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.14%) AWS
2 16 (21.92%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (19.18%) Entra ID
4 13 (17.81%) GCP
5 10 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (13.70%) Power Platform
6 8 (10.96%) PaaS
7 7 (9.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.48%) GitHub
9 3 (4.11%) IaaS
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.74%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.74%) npm
10 2 (2.74%) NuGet
10 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.74%) Serverless
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) Network Security
3 2 (2.74%) HTTP
3 2 (2.74%) VLAN
3 2 (2.74%) VPN
4 1 (1.37%) DNS
4 1 (1.37%) Intranet
4 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.37%) LAN
4 1 (1.37%) SSL
4 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.37%) WAN
4 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.33%) Power BI
3 4 (5.48%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.48%) MySQL
4 3 (4.11%) Metadata
4 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.74%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (2.74%) Power Query
5 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.37%) Big Data
6 1 (1.37%) GIS
6 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Selenium
2 6 (8.22%) JIRA
3 4 (5.48%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.48%) Postman
3 4 (5.48%) SoapUI
4 3 (4.11%) GitLab
5 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.74%) Git
5 2 (2.74%) JMeter
5 2 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.74%) webpack
6 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
General
1 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Finance
3 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Local Government
5 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (19.18%) Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Senior
5 6 (8.22%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) QA Tester
7 4 (5.48%) React Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Tester
8 3 (4.11%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Administrator
8 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) .NET
2 6 (8.22%) AngularJS
2 6 (8.22%) React
3 4 (5.48%) React Native
4 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.11%) CSS
4 3 (4.11%) HTML
4 3 (4.11%) Laravel
4 3 (4.11%) RESTful
4 3 (4.11%) Vue
4 3 (4.11%) WPF
5 2 (2.74%) Flask
5 2 (2.74%) LDAP
5 2 (2.74%) pytest
5 2 (2.74%) REST
5 2 (2.74%) Web Services
6 1 (1.37%) D3.js
6 1 (1.37%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.37%) Node.js
6 1 (1.37%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.11%) NHS
3 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.74%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.37%) CCTV
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Linux
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.11%) Android
4 3 (4.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) DevOps
2 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
3 11 (15.07%) Agile
4 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (12.33%) CI/CD
5 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (10.96%) Analytics
6 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
7 7 (9.59%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (8.22%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.22%) Mentoring
9 5 (6.85%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (6.85%) Identity Management
10 4 (5.48%) Cloud Security
10 4 (5.48%) Containerisation
10 4 (5.48%) Data Engineering
10 4 (5.48%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (5.48%) Roadmaps
10 4 (5.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) SQL
2 11 (15.07%) C#
3 10 (13.70%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.33%) Python
5 4 (5.48%) Bash
5 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.48%) PHP
6 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
1 7 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.11%) CCNA
3 3 (4.11%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) NIST
4 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.37%) GRC
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
4 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.85%) Docker
3 3 (4.11%) vSphere
4 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (9.59%) Terraform
2 4 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.11%) SCCM
4 2 (2.74%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.74%) Puppet
5 1 (1.37%) Nessus
5 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.33%) VMware
3 7 (9.59%) Cisco
4 6 (8.22%) Meraki
5 5 (6.85%) Databricks
5 5 (6.85%) Google
5 5 (6.85%) Veeam
6 3 (4.11%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (4.11%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.11%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.11%) SAP
7 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.74%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.37%) Aruba
8 1 (1.37%) ESRI
8 1 (1.37%) HP
8 1 (1.37%) Qualys
8 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow