Azure Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 147 208 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.47% 12.02% 13.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.82% 39.47% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 152 217
10th Percentile £281 £351 £356
25th Percentile £374 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £600 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.50
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £44.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £61.85
% change year-on-year +16.88% -37.75% +30.21%

All Cloud 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 462 527 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.04% 30.46% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 369 496
10th Percentile £261 £250 £235
25th Percentile £375 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £618 £638 £696
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 4
10th Percentile £27.82 £13.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £30.17 - £21.26
Median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £32.76
Median % change year-on-year +119.73% -54.21% +71.58%
75th Percentile £50.48 £21.50 £47.38
90th Percentile £79.33 £22.00 £52.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 -5 88 £475 -5.00% 219
South Yorkshire -7 45 £463 -7.50% 68
North Yorkshire +9 8 £313 -45.65% 41
East Yorkshire -1 3 - - 24
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.04%) Confluence
5 2 (1.36%) Apache
5 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.68%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.36%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
3 1 (0.68%) SAP MRS
3 1 (0.68%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.82%) AWS
2 49 (33.33%) GCP
3 32 (21.77%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (19.73%) Entra ID
6 14 (9.52%) Power Platform
7 12 (8.16%) SaaS
8 10 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (6.80%) Azure AKS
8 10 (6.80%) GitHub
9 9 (6.12%) PaaS
10 8 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.72%) IaaS
13 4 (2.72%) Serverless
14 3 (2.04%) npm
14 3 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.16%) Firewall
2 8 (5.44%) VPN
3 4 (2.72%) HTTP
4 3 (2.04%) Network Security
4 3 (2.04%) SAN
4 3 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.36%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.36%) LAN
5 2 (1.36%) NAS
5 2 (1.36%) WAN
5 2 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.68%) 4G
6 1 (0.68%) Broadband
6 1 (0.68%) Intranet
6 1 (0.68%) ISDN
6 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.68%) MPLS
6 1 (0.68%) PSTN
6 1 (0.68%) SSL
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.80%) Power BI
2 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.44%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.08%) MySQL
6 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.36%) Bigtable
8 2 (1.36%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.36%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.36%) Metadata
8 2 (1.36%) Power Query
8 2 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.68%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 19 (12.93%) JIRA
2 14 (9.52%) Git
3 12 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.44%) GitLab
5 6 (4.08%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.40%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.40%) Postman
6 5 (3.40%) Selenium
6 5 (3.40%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.72%) JMeter
7 4 (2.72%) TestRail
8 3 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.04%) webpack
9 2 (1.36%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.36%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.68%) git-flow
10 1 (0.68%) Maven
10 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.56%) Finance
3 11 (7.48%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.40%) Banking
6 3 (2.04%) Local Government
7 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.36%) Law
7 2 (1.36%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (18.37%) Developer
2 26 (17.69%) Architect
3 24 (16.33%) Analyst
4 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (7.48%) Senior
6 10 (6.80%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.44%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) .NET Software Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.40%) Consultant
10 5 (3.40%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.72%) Administrator
11 4 (2.72%) Data Architect
11 4 (2.72%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.72%) Support Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Test Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.97%) .NET
2 14 (9.52%) RESTful
3 10 (6.80%) SAML
4 9 (6.12%) OAuth
4 9 (6.12%) OpenID
5 8 (5.44%) .NET Core
5 8 (5.44%) JSON
6 7 (4.76%) Flask
6 7 (4.76%) Node.js
7 6 (4.08%) Kafka
7 6 (4.08%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.72%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.72%) CSS
8 4 (2.72%) Django
8 4 (2.72%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.72%) HTML
8 4 (2.72%) React
8 4 (2.72%) REST
8 4 (2.72%) WebSockets
9 3 (2.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.08%) NHS
5 5 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.04%) CCTV
7 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.04%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.68%) SCADA
9 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.88%) Windows
2 13 (8.84%) Linux
3 5 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.72%) Unix
5 3 (2.04%) Android
5 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.68%) AIX
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.05%) DevOps
2 36 (24.49%) CI/CD
3 32 (21.77%) Agile
4 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (11.56%) Migration
8 16 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (10.20%) Microservices
9 15 (10.20%) Software Engineering
10 13 (8.84%) Mentoring
10 13 (8.84%) RBAC
11 12 (8.16%) Scrum
12 11 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (7.48%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.48%) Identity Management
13 10 (6.80%) Clean Code
13 10 (6.80%) GAP Analysis
13 10 (6.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (19.73%) Python
1 29 (19.73%) SQL
2 17 (11.56%) C#
3 15 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.76%) Bash
5 7 (4.76%) Java
6 4 (2.72%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.04%) Bicep
8 2 (1.36%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.36%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (1.36%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.36%) PHP
8 2 (1.36%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) R
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (11.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 7 (4.76%) Degree
4 6 (4.08%) CISSP
5 5 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.40%) CISM
6 4 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.04%) CCNA
7 3 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.36%) CISMP
8 2 (1.36%) GSEC
8 2 (1.36%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.68%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.80%) QA
2 8 (5.44%) GDPR
3 6 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.40%) NIST
5 4 (2.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (17.01%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.20%) Docker
3 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.04%) vSphere
4 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.68%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 26 (17.69%) Terraform
2 23 (15.65%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.76%) Ansible
6 4 (2.72%) Puppet
6 4 (2.72%) SCCM
7 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.36%) Control-M
8 2 (1.36%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.36%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.68%) Nagios
9 1 (0.68%) Nessus
9 1 (0.68%) NetApp OnCommand
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.68%) SCOM
9 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.84%) Google
3 11 (7.48%) VMware
4 9 (6.12%) Databricks
5 8 (5.44%) Alibaba
6 7 (4.76%) Cisco
7 6 (4.08%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.08%) SAP
8 5 (3.40%) CyberArk
8 5 (3.40%) Veeam
9 4 (2.72%) IBM
9 4 (2.72%) Thycotic
10 3 (2.04%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (2.04%) Meraki
10 3 (2.04%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.36%) Splunk