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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 379 125 209
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.88% 10.57% 12.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.51% 30.12% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 81 152
10th Percentile £321 £263 £378
25th Percentile £431 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +27.78% +16.88% -37.75%

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 1,038 415 517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.02% 35.08% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 282 362
10th Percentile £319 £258 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £688 £636 £645
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile £72.43 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 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 +7 191 £489 +2.89% 62
South Yorkshire +11 131 £530 +14.59% 30
North Yorkshire +7 26 £450 +44.00% 13
East Yorkshire -1 6 £363 - 7
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 38 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.96%) Confluence
3 14 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Acrobat
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (5.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (41.42%) AWS
2 97 (25.59%) GCP
3 66 (17.41%) Entra ID
4 62 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (15.30%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (12.40%) GitHub
6 47 (12.40%) Power Platform
7 38 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (9.76%) SaaS
9 26 (6.86%) Serverless
10 25 (6.60%) PowerApps
11 21 (5.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (5.54%) OneDrive
12 20 (5.28%) PaaS
13 18 (4.75%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.96%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.69%) Azure Functions
16 13 (3.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (3.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.96%) Firewall
2 14 (3.69%) WAN
3 12 (3.17%) Network Security
4 11 (2.90%) LAN
4 11 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.37%) DNS
5 9 (2.37%) SAN
5 9 (2.37%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.11%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.58%) VPN
7 6 (1.58%) WLAN
8 5 (1.32%) IPsec
8 5 (1.32%) SSL
9 4 (1.06%) Internet
9 4 (1.06%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.06%) VLAN
10 3 (0.79%) BGP
10 3 (0.79%) NAS
10 3 (0.79%) OSPF
10 3 (0.79%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.07%) Power BI
3 18 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.11%) Big Data
7 8 (2.11%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.11%) Metadata
8 7 (1.85%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.79%) Parquet
11 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.26%) Redis
13 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (11.87%) Jenkins
2 38 (10.03%) JIRA
3 22 (5.80%) Git
4 21 (5.54%) GitLab
5 14 (3.69%) Gatling
6 7 (1.85%) Maven
7 6 (1.58%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.32%) JMeter
8 5 (1.32%) Postman
8 5 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.32%) Selenium
9 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.06%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.06%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.26%) Newman
12 1 (0.26%) TestNG
General
1 101 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 88 (23.22%) Finance
3 31 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.65%) Banking
4 29 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.07%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.17%) Publishing
7 10 (2.64%) Law
8 8 (2.11%) Legal
9 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.32%) Social Science
11 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.06%) Military
11 4 (1.06%) Retail
12 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 69 (18.21%) Architect
2 50 (13.19%) Senior
3 42 (11.08%) Lead
4 35 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (8.44%) Developer
6 25 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.28%) Analyst
9 18 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.49%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.69%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (3.17%) Administrator
13 12 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.17%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.90%) Consultant
15 10 (2.64%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.64%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.23%) REST
2 25 (6.60%) OpenID
3 18 (4.75%) OAuth
4 15 (3.96%) .NET
4 15 (3.96%) LDAP
4 15 (3.96%) SAML
5 14 (3.69%) Playwright
5 14 (3.69%) SAP Basis
6 13 (3.43%) OAuth2
7 12 (3.17%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (3.17%) Web Services
8 11 (2.90%) PySpark
8 11 (2.90%) SOAP
9 10 (2.64%) SailPoint
10 9 (2.37%) Kafka
10 9 (2.37%) Middleware
10 9 (2.37%) React
11 7 (1.85%) JSON
11 7 (1.85%) RESTful
12 6 (1.58%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.71%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.33%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.28%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.43%) Taxonomies
7 10 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.85%) NHS
8 7 (1.85%) Replication
8 7 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.32%) CMDB
10 5 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.32%) FlexPod
11 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (11.61%) Windows
2 24 (6.33%) Linux
3 10 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.11%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.58%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.58%) VMS
6 4 (1.06%) Android
6 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.06%) Unix
7 3 (0.79%) AIX
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (40.63%) DevOps
2 141 (37.20%) CI/CD
3 88 (23.22%) Agile
4 67 (17.68%) Roadmaps
5 61 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (13.72%) Migration
7 49 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (11.87%) Observability
8 45 (11.87%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (10.82%) AI
10 41 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 40 (10.55%) Analytics
12 39 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (10.03%) Identity Access Management
14 36 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (9.23%) Containerisation
16 33 (8.71%) Microservices
17 32 (8.44%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.16%) Python
2 54 (14.25%) SQL
3 49 (12.93%) Java
4 38 (10.03%) PowerShell
5 19 (5.01%) C#
6 18 (4.75%) Bash
7 15 (3.96%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.69%) Scala
9 8 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.85%) Bicep
11 5 (1.32%) Go
11 5 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.06%) Cypher
13 3 (0.79%) ABAP
13 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Groovy
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.18%) Degree
3 30 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.11%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.11%) CISSP
6 7 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.58%) CISM
7 6 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.58%) PMP
8 5 (1.32%) OCP
8 5 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.06%) CCSP
9 4 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.79%) CCSK
10 3 (0.79%) NCDA
10 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.69%) QA
2 12 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.37%) NIST
5 8 (2.11%) GDPR
6 7 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.85%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (1.32%) GRC
8 5 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.32%) WCAG
9 4 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.06%) SLA
10 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (11.87%) Active Directory
2 34 (8.97%) Docker
3 17 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.11%) NFS
5 8 (2.11%) vSphere
6 6 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.32%) RACF
8 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.79%) SRDF
9 3 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (22.16%) Terraform
2 62 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (6.33%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (6.07%) Ansible
6 13 (3.43%) Grafana
7 11 (2.90%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.64%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (2.37%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.11%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.06%) Istio
11 4 (1.06%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.79%) Argo
12 3 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.53%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.53%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 135 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.97%) Google
3 28 (7.39%) Databricks
4 27 (7.12%) ServiceNow
5 26 (6.86%) SAP
6 20 (5.28%) Okta
7 14 (3.69%) Oracle
7 14 (3.69%) VMware
8 11 (2.90%) Foundry
8 11 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.11%) Cisco
9 8 (2.11%) NetApp
9 8 (2.11%) OpenAI
9 8 (2.11%) Splunk
10 7 (1.85%) Aruba
10 7 (1.85%) Veeam
11 6 (1.58%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.32%) Adobe
12 5 (1.32%) IBM
12 5 (1.32%) Salesforce