Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Storage
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 80 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.50% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £75 - -
25th Percentile £358 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -
75th Percentile £425 £530 -
90th Percentile £452 - -
England median daily rate £425 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -34.62% +7.44% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Yorkshire

Azure Storage 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 854 360 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.47% 38.34% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 242 415
10th Percentile £223 £275 £228
25th Percentile £400 £405 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £595
90th Percentile £625 £699 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -7.29%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Storage in Yorkshire

Azure Storage
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 Storage within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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 - 8 £388 - 1
South Yorkshire -59 2 £525 +0.96% 2
Azure Storage
England

Azure Storage
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 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Apigee
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Tester
2 4 (40.00%) Security Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) JWT
1 5 (50.00%) OAuth
1 5 (50.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (50.00%) Validation
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) AI
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) LLM
5 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Bicep
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Alibaba
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace