Azure Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 331 118 203
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.51% 12.59% 11.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.52% 35.22% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 82 134
10th Percentile £308 £263 £263
25th Percentile £424 £352 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £584
90th Percentile £686 £561 £656
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 1
10th Percentile £49.15 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 - £62.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £44.25 £38.50
% change year-on-year +29.94% +14.94% -27.84%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Yorkshire

Azure 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 959 335 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.04% 35.75% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 237 334
10th Percentile £304 £261 £218
25th Percentile £404 £363 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £24.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £34.52 £27.56 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.08 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.38 £102.00 £34.00
England median hourly rate £41.64 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +57.13% +26.19% -18.69%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 April 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 +3 171 £500 +17.65% 138
South Yorkshire +3 113 £500 - 34
North Yorkshire -1 20 £450 +18.03% 16
East Yorkshire -4 15 £344 - 18
Azure
England

Azure
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 22 (6.65%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.14%) Confluence
3 13 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.91%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.51%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 28 (8.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.91%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (41.69%) AWS
2 102 (30.82%) GCP
3 66 (19.94%) Entra ID
4 47 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (14.20%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (14.20%) SaaS
5 38 (11.48%) GitHub
6 31 (9.37%) Power Platform
7 26 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (6.34%) OpenShift
8 21 (6.34%) Serverless
9 19 (5.74%) PaaS
10 13 (3.93%) Azure AKS
10 13 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.93%) Azure Storage
10 13 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (3.93%) OneDrive
11 12 (3.63%) Azure Functions
11 12 (3.63%) PowerApps
12 11 (3.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.04%) Firewall
2 17 (5.14%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.23%) DNS
3 14 (4.23%) WAN
4 13 (3.93%) LAN
5 12 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.72%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.42%) Network Security
8 7 (2.11%) SSL
9 6 (1.81%) IPsec
9 6 (1.81%) SAN
10 5 (1.51%) VPN
11 4 (1.21%) DHCP
11 4 (1.21%) VLAN
11 4 (1.21%) VoIP
12 3 (0.91%) HTTP
12 3 (0.91%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.60%) OSPF
13 2 (0.60%) PSTN
13 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.04%) Power BI
2 19 (5.74%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.72%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.81%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.81%) Metadata
8 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.51%) MySQL
8 5 (1.51%) Redis
9 4 (1.21%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.21%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.21%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.91%) Big Data
11 2 (0.60%) DataStage
11 2 (0.60%) DB2
11 2 (0.60%) GIS
11 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (15.71%) Jenkins
2 43 (12.99%) JIRA
3 28 (8.46%) GitLab
4 21 (6.34%) Git
5 15 (4.53%) Selenium
6 14 (4.23%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.93%) Postman
8 12 (3.63%) REST Assured
9 8 (2.42%) Gatling
9 8 (2.42%) TestRail
10 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.21%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.21%) JMeter
10 4 (1.21%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.21%) Maven
10 4 (1.21%) Mocha
10 4 (1.21%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.21%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.60%) MSI
11 2 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 113 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.41%) Finance
3 34 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.06%) Banking
6 22 (6.65%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.83%) Publishing
8 13 (3.93%) Legal
9 8 (2.42%) Law
10 5 (1.51%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Social Science
12 1 (0.30%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (16.31%) Architect
2 37 (11.18%) Senior
3 30 (9.06%) Lead
4 24 (7.25%) Developer
5 21 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (5.14%) Analyst
6 17 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.23%) Administrator
8 14 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.32%) Consultant
10 11 (3.32%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.32%) Senior Architect
10 11 (3.32%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.02%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.02%) IT Support
11 10 (3.02%) Technical Architect
12 9 (2.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (2.72%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.18%) REST
2 30 (9.06%) OpenID
3 23 (6.95%) LDAP
4 22 (6.65%) OAuth
5 21 (6.34%) .NET
6 19 (5.74%) SAML
7 18 (5.44%) SAP Basis
8 17 (5.14%) React
8 17 (5.14%) SailPoint
9 14 (4.23%) RESTful
10 13 (3.93%) Node.js
11 10 (3.02%) Middleware
11 10 (3.02%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.02%) Playwright
11 10 (3.02%) Web Services
12 9 (2.72%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (2.42%) CSS
13 8 (2.42%) HTML
13 8 (2.42%) JWT
14 7 (2.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.88%) Onboarding
2 31 (9.37%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (7.25%) Product Ownership
5 19 (5.74%) Taxonomies
6 12 (3.63%) NHS
7 11 (3.32%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.32%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.72%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.11%) CMDB
10 7 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.11%) IoT
11 6 (1.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.51%) FlexPod
13 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.91%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.27%) Windows
2 22 (6.65%) Linux
3 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.11%) VMS
5 5 (1.51%) CoreOS
5 5 (1.51%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (1.51%) Unix
5 5 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.21%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.91%) Android
8 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (37.76%) DevOps
2 118 (35.65%) CI/CD
3 77 (23.26%) Agile
4 64 (19.34%) Roadmaps
5 52 (15.71%) Migration
6 50 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (13.60%) Containerisation
9 42 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (11.18%) Microservices
12 36 (10.88%) Data Governance
12 36 (10.88%) Test Automation
13 33 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (9.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (9.37%) Analytics
15 31 (9.37%) Identity Access Management
16 30 (9.06%) Vulnerability Management
17 29 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
18 28 (8.46%) AI
Programming Languages
1 69 (20.85%) Python
2 56 (16.92%) SQL
3 42 (12.69%) Java
4 30 (9.06%) PowerShell
5 27 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.74%) Bash
6 19 (5.74%) C#
7 15 (4.53%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.42%) PHP
8 8 (2.42%) Scala
9 6 (1.81%) Bicep
9 6 (1.81%) Go
9 6 (1.81%) Groovy
10 4 (1.21%) Cypher
10 4 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
12 2 (0.60%) Solidity
12 2 (0.60%) XPath
13 1 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 32 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.55%) Degree
3 21 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (2.11%) CISSP
5 5 (1.51%) OCP
5 5 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.21%) CISM
6 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.91%) CCSK
7 3 (0.91%) CCSP
7 3 (0.91%) CEH
7 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.60%) OSCP
8 2 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.65%) QA
2 17 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.42%) GDPR
4 7 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.81%) HL7
5 6 (1.81%) NIST
6 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.51%) SLA
6 5 (1.51%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.21%) WCAG
8 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.91%) GRC
8 3 (0.91%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.91%) PSD2
9 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.60%) PMO
9 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 45 (13.60%) Docker
2 33 (9.97%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.42%) vSphere
6 6 (1.81%) NFS
7 5 (1.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.51%) RACF
8 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.60%) KVM
8 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.30%) Ceph
9 1 (0.30%) QEMU
9 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.30%) XenApp
9 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 59 (17.82%) Terraform
3 32 (9.67%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (8.46%) Ansible
5 22 (6.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (4.23%) Grafana
7 6 (1.81%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.51%) Istio
8 5 (1.51%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.21%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.60%) Argo
10 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.30%) Kibana
11 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.30%) logstash
11 1 (0.30%) Podman
11 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.57%) Google
3 34 (10.27%) SAP
4 25 (7.55%) ServiceNow
5 23 (6.95%) Okta
6 16 (4.83%) Oracle
6 16 (4.83%) Splunk
7 11 (3.32%) Databricks
7 11 (3.32%) VMware
8 9 (2.72%) Cisco
8 9 (2.72%) OpenAI
9 8 (2.42%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.11%) Brio
10 7 (2.11%) NetApp
11 6 (1.81%) Adobe
11 6 (1.81%) ESRI
12 5 (1.51%) Aruba
12 5 (1.51%) Foundry
12 5 (1.51%) Meraki
12 5 (1.51%) Veeam