Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 72 70
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 +37
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 11 24 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.65% 1.72% 2.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.91% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 36
10th Percentile £401 £348 £425
25th Percentile £413 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -25.00% +3.53%
75th Percentile £550 £511 £678
90th Percentile £558 £614 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,552 1,258 1,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 90.24% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,028 730 1,226
10th Percentile £259 £232 £231
25th Percentile £378 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.05% +0.05%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £648 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.60% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 53 33
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £19.85 £16.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £25.04 £22.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% +5.58% +11.63%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £41.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +55.17%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Yorkshire

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
West Yorkshire -21 7 £490 +18.79% 5
South Yorkshire -27 3 £550 -0.45% 1
East Yorkshire - 1 £363 - 4
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) Terraform
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) Docker
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 3 (27.27%) PaaS
6 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
7 2 (18.18%) .NET
7 2 (18.18%) Bicep
7 2 (18.18%) IaaS
7 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
8 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
8 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
8 1 (9.09%) Agile
8 1 (9.09%) Analytics
8 1 (9.09%) Ansible
8 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
8 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
8 1 (9.09%) Aruba
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) NuGet
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
1 1 (9.09%) JMeter
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) FHIR
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Aruba
2 1 (9.09%) Brio
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI