Azure AI Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Azure AI Platform
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.049% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £616 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +44.82% +13.33% -44.44%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Yorkshire

Azure AI 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 856 353 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.36% 38.04% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 243 411
10th Percentile £252 £263 £231
25th Percentile £400 £383 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £588
90th Percentile £625 £670 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.75 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% +118.73% -63.64%
75th Percentile £60.69 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.23
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.73% -11.10%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Azure AI job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure AI
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure AI

Azure AI
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AI within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
West Yorkshire - 1 £575 - 2
Azure AI
England

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI