Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Yorkshire is £67, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 7 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.26% - 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile - - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £67 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.41%
75th Percentile - - £497
90th Percentile - - £499
England median daily rate £600 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +20.00% +2.56% -17.02%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,428 1,023 1,526
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 94.29% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 651 953
10th Percentile £318 £256 £250
25th Percentile £409 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £567 £548 £575
90th Percentile £673 £613 £650
England median daily rate £518 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 37 74
10th Percentile £15.80 £14.39 £11.30
25th Percentile £22.55 £17.79 £12.53
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.24 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +28.73% -23.26%
75th Percentile £47.25 £22.14 £25.83
90th Percentile £68.75 £29.37 £53.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.27 £38.00
% change year-on-year +53.74% -22.97% -15.56%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 June 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 - 7 £67 -
Azure Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 June 2026, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL

Azure Platform 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Runbook
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft