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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 432 176 193
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.14% 11.40% 12.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.10% 31.04% 37.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 111 134
10th Percentile £331 £313 £383
25th Percentile £413 £374 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.13% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £612
90th Percentile £688 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +7.14% -24.21%

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 1,051 567 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.83% 36.72% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 393 352
10th Percentile £306 £257 £289
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £14.06 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £17.31 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +7 209 £488 -2.50% 140
South Yorkshire +10 160 £518 +17.02% 52
North Yorkshire +9 34 £488 +77.27% 26
East Yorkshire -2 4 £313 - 13
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 46 (10.65%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.25%) Confluence
3 20 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.24%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.39%) Apache
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 174 (40.28%) AWS
2 118 (27.31%) GCP
3 74 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (16.67%) GitHub
5 66 (15.28%) Power Platform
6 63 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (14.58%) Entra ID
7 46 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.25%) PowerApps
9 24 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (4.86%) OneDrive
11 20 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (3.94%) SaaS
13 17 (3.94%) Serverless
14 15 (3.47%) Copilot Studio
15 13 (3.01%) Azure AI
15 13 (3.01%) Power Automate
16 12 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 11 (2.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.79%) DNS
1 25 (5.79%) Firewall
2 18 (4.17%) Network Security
3 15 (3.47%) VPN
4 14 (3.24%) LAN
4 14 (3.24%) VLAN
4 14 (3.24%) WAN
5 13 (3.01%) DHCP
6 12 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (2.78%) WLAN
7 10 (2.31%) BGP
7 10 (2.31%) OSPF
8 8 (1.85%) SAN
9 7 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (1.62%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (1.39%) NAS
10 6 (1.39%) Wireless
11 5 (1.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 35 (8.10%) Power BI
3 21 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.94%) Metadata
6 15 (3.47%) Big Data
7 11 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.16%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.16%) SAP HANA
11 5 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (1.16%) Tableau
12 4 (0.93%) Redis
12 4 (0.93%) Trino
13 3 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (13.19%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.34%) JIRA
3 29 (6.71%) Git
4 17 (3.94%) GitLab
5 12 (2.78%) Gatling
6 8 (1.85%) Maven
6 8 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.39%) JMeter
7 6 (1.39%) Selenium
8 5 (1.16%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.93%) Postman
10 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.69%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.46%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
General
1 117 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 108 (25.00%) Finance
3 36 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.41%) Banking
6 16 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.24%) Law
8 9 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.08%) Retail
8 9 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.39%) Social Science
10 5 (1.16%) Legal
11 4 (0.93%) Military
11 4 (0.93%) Publishing
12 3 (0.69%) Police
13 2 (0.46%) Billing
13 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (16.20%) Architect
2 58 (13.43%) Senior
3 55 (12.73%) Lead
4 37 (8.56%) Developer
5 35 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (7.64%) Data Engineer
7 25 (5.79%) Analyst
7 25 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.47%) Technical Architect
12 14 (3.24%) Consultant
13 13 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.78%) 2nd Line Support
15 11 (2.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.55%) Security Engineer
16 10 (2.31%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (23.38%) Terraform
2 40 (9.26%) REST
3 25 (5.79%) .NET
3 25 (5.79%) Kafka
4 16 (3.70%) React
5 14 (3.24%) Playwright
6 13 (3.01%) Web Services
7 12 (2.78%) OAuth
7 12 (2.78%) PySpark
7 12 (2.78%) SailPoint
7 12 (2.78%) SOAP
8 11 (2.55%) .NET Core
8 11 (2.55%) ASP.NET
8 11 (2.55%) JSON
9 10 (2.31%) OpenID
10 9 (2.08%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.85%) LDAP
11 8 (1.85%) SAML
11 8 (1.85%) SAP Basis
12 7 (1.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.71%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 23 (5.32%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.40%) AI Agents
7 17 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (3.70%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.62%) PKI
12 7 (1.62%) Replication
13 6 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.39%) Taxonomies
14 5 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.27%) Windows
2 29 (6.71%) Linux
3 26 (6.02%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.16%) Android
4 5 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.69%) AIX
6 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.69%) Unix
7 2 (0.46%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.46%) VMS
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (38.43%) CI/CD
2 154 (35.65%) DevOps
3 99 (22.92%) Agile
4 90 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 70 (16.20%) AI
7 65 (15.05%) Observability
8 63 (14.58%) Roadmaps
9 61 (14.12%) Analytics
10 60 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
12 52 (12.04%) Migration
13 50 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 46 (10.65%) Data Pipeline
16 45 (10.42%) Data Engineering
17 44 (10.19%) Software Engineering
17 44 (10.19%) Test Automation
18 42 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
19 39 (9.03%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 94 (21.76%) Python
2 59 (13.66%) SQL
3 54 (12.50%) Java
4 47 (10.88%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.56%) C#
6 18 (4.17%) Bash
7 17 (3.94%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.78%) Bicep
9 10 (2.31%) Groovy
9 10 (2.31%) Scala
10 9 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.16%) ABAP
12 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.46%) Go
15 1 (0.23%) R
15 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.79%) Degree
4 19 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.31%) CISSP
9 8 (1.85%) CCNP
9 8 (1.85%) CISM
10 7 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.39%) CCSP
12 5 (1.16%) CCSK
12 5 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.16%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.16%) PMP
13 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.69%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.86%) QA
3 11 (2.55%) NIST
4 10 (2.31%) GDPR
5 8 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 7 (1.62%) WCAG
7 6 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.93%) GRC
8 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.69%) GxP
9 3 (0.69%) PMO
9 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.46%) IASME
10 2 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.19%) Docker
3 12 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.39%) vSphere
7 5 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.93%) NFS
9 3 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.69%) Firmware
9 3 (0.69%) SRDF
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.23%) Ceph
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 92 (21.30%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.18%) Ansible
3 28 (6.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (4.86%) Grafana
5 18 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.01%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.08%) HAProxy
9 6 (1.39%) Kustomize
10 5 (1.16%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.93%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.69%) Argo
12 3 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.69%) Packer
12 3 (0.69%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.69%) vMotion
13 2 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.46%) Podman
Vendors
1 151 (34.95%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.42%) Databricks
3 26 (6.02%) Google
4 24 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 18 (4.17%) SAP
6 17 (3.94%) Cisco
7 16 (3.70%) Foundry
8 13 (3.01%) Splunk
8 13 (3.01%) VMware
9 11 (2.55%) Oracle
10 10 (2.31%) IBM
10 10 (2.31%) Okta
11 8 (1.85%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.62%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.62%) Citrix
12 7 (1.62%) Dell
12 7 (1.62%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.62%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto