Azure Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 125 244 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.63% 15.36% 14.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.01% 43.26% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 198 190
10th Percentile £353 £363 £331
25th Percentile £438 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £669 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year - +84.24% -55.90%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 284 564 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.69% 35.49% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 419 478
10th Percentile £275 £331 £243
25th Percentile £406 £425 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £596 £618 £575
90th Percentile £669 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £35.40 £17.22
25th Percentile - £41.63 £17.72
Median hourly rate £15.00 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.22% +170.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £22.40
90th Percentile - £75.20 £22.51
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £43.25 £18.88
% change year-on-year -65.32% +129.14% -5.63%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +1 109 £500 -9.09% 94
Bradford -9 6 £600 +9.09% 7
Huddersfield -1 2 £500 +66.67% 3
Wakefield -10 1 £300 +33.33%
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 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Kentico
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.80%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.60%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.60%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.20%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (19.20%) AWS
3 16 (12.80%) Akamai
3 16 (12.80%) Cloudflare
4 12 (9.60%) GitHub
5 10 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.40%) GCP
6 8 (6.40%) SaaS
7 7 (5.60%) IaaS
7 7 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (4.00%) PaaS
9 5 (4.00%) Serverless
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.20%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) Firewall
2 7 (5.60%) DNS
3 5 (4.00%) Network Security
3 5 (4.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.80%) DHCP
5 1 (0.80%) LAN
5 1 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.20%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.80%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.80%) Power BI
6 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.20%) Big Data
7 4 (3.20%) GIS
7 4 (3.20%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (3.20%) MySQL
7 4 (3.20%) Redis
7 4 (3.20%) Tableau
8 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.60%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Jenkins
1 8 (6.40%) JIRA
2 7 (5.60%) Git
3 6 (4.80%) GitLab
4 5 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.20%) AppScan
5 4 (3.20%) Burp Suite
5 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.80%) Maven
7 1 (0.80%) Selenium
7 1 (0.80%) Subversion
7 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.00%) Retail
3 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Finance
5 4 (3.20%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.60%) Local Government
6 2 (1.60%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.80%) Automotive
7 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Marketing
7 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (23.20%) Architect
2 23 (18.40%) Developer
3 16 (12.80%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (8.80%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) .NET Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Analyst
8 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Senior
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Lead
9 5 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) SQL BI Developer
9 5 (4.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) .NET
2 5 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 5 (4.00%) SailPoint
3 4 (3.20%) Blazor
3 4 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.20%) Node.js
3 4 (3.20%) SignalR
3 4 (3.20%) Web Services
4 3 (2.40%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.60%) ADO
5 2 (1.60%) Kafka
6 1 (0.80%) CSS
6 1 (0.80%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.80%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.80%) HTML
6 1 (0.80%) LDAP
6 1 (0.80%) Middleware
6 1 (0.80%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.80%) SAML
6 1 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) NHS
2 6 (4.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Windows
2 7 (5.60%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.80%) Linux
4 2 (1.60%) Unix
5 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.20%) DevOps
2 30 (24.00%) Agile
3 22 (17.60%) Migration
4 18 (14.40%) Data Modelling
5 17 (13.60%) CI/CD
6 14 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (9.60%) Containerisation
9 11 (8.80%) RAD
10 10 (8.00%) Analytics
10 10 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.20%) ETL
11 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (7.20%) OWASP
11 9 (7.20%) Project Delivery
11 9 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.20%) Waterfall
12 8 (6.40%) Data Engineering
12 8 (6.40%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.80%) SQL
2 18 (14.40%) Python
3 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.60%) Bash
5 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.40%) Java
7 2 (1.60%) C#
7 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.60%) PHP
7 2 (1.60%) Scala
8 1 (0.80%) ABAP
8 1 (0.80%) Bicep
8 1 (0.80%) Go
8 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
1 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.80%) Degree
3 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.60%) CCNA
5 2 (1.60%) CCNP
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.80%) CISM
6 1 (0.80%) CISSP
6 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) QA
2 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Docker
2 10 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.60%) HDFS
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (11.20%) Kubernetes
1 14 (11.20%) Terraform
2 5 (4.00%) Ansible
2 5 (4.00%) Nessus
2 5 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (4.00%) Puppet
3 4 (3.20%) Grafana
3 4 (3.20%) Graylog
3 4 (3.20%) HP Fortify
3 4 (3.20%) WebInspect
4 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.00%) F5
3 6 (4.80%) Brio
4 5 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.00%) Databricks
4 5 (4.00%) SAP
5 4 (3.20%) Checkmarx
5 4 (3.20%) Google
5 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.20%) Splunk
5 4 (3.20%) Veracode
6 3 (2.40%) Oracle
6 3 (2.40%) VMware
7 1 (0.80%) Ariba
7 1 (0.80%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco
7 1 (0.80%) ESRI
7 1 (0.80%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.80%) Imperva