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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 426 214 193
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.81% 13.18% 13.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.01% 34.91% 36.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 131 131
10th Percentile £349 £312 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.35% -7.82%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £681 £688 £650
England median daily rate £530 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +54.41% -2.86% -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 1,014 613 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.26% 37.75% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 406 357
10th Percentile £320 £235 £295
25th Percentile £413 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £614 £650
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - £15.58
25th Percentile £14.41 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +852.38% -6.71%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £22.00
90th Percentile £35.00 - £26.05
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 4 October 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
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 4 October 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 -3 194 £495 -1.00% 284
South Yorkshire +7 174 £513 +8.05% 130
North Yorkshire +5 32 £475 +151.66% 69
East Yorkshire -2 3 £338 - 28
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 41 (9.62%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.28%) Confluence
3 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (3.05%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.88%) Apache
6 6 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.17%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 187 (43.90%) AWS
2 133 (31.22%) GCP
3 75 (17.61%) GitHub
4 72 (16.90%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (15.02%) Entra ID
7 58 (13.62%) Power Platform
8 43 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.63%) Microsoft Copilot
10 23 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (4.23%) OneDrive
11 18 (4.23%) PowerApps
12 16 (3.76%) Serverless
13 14 (3.29%) Copilot Studio
14 13 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (2.82%) SaaS
16 11 (2.58%) Azure AI
17 10 (2.35%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.75%) Firewall
2 30 (7.04%) DNS
3 23 (5.40%) Network Security
4 18 (4.23%) VPN
5 16 (3.76%) VLAN
6 14 (3.29%) DHCP
7 12 (2.82%) LAN
7 12 (2.82%) WAN
7 12 (2.82%) WLAN
8 10 (2.35%) BGP
8 10 (2.35%) OSPF
8 10 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (2.11%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (1.64%) SAN
11 6 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (1.41%) NAS
11 6 (1.41%) Wireless
12 5 (1.17%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.75%) Power BI
2 29 (6.81%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.99%) Metadata
5 16 (3.76%) Big Data
6 13 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.64%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.17%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (1.17%) Tableau
10 5 (1.17%) Trino
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.94%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
11 4 (0.94%) SAP BW
11 4 (0.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 54 (12.68%) JIRA
2 53 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 32 (7.51%) Git
4 16 (3.76%) GitLab
5 11 (2.58%) JMeter
6 10 (2.35%) Selenium
7 8 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.88%) Gatling
7 8 (1.88%) Postman
7 8 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.41%) LoadRunner
10 5 (1.17%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.94%) Maven
12 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.47%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.47%) Newman
13 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 119 (27.93%) Finance
3 42 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.15%) Banking
5 27 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 12 (2.82%) Law
7 11 (2.58%) Retail
8 10 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.94%) Military
12 4 (0.94%) Social Science
13 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.70%) Legal
13 3 (0.70%) Police
14 2 (0.47%) Billing
14 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (17.61%) Architect
2 63 (14.79%) Senior
3 55 (12.91%) Lead
4 34 (7.98%) Developer
4 34 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (7.51%) Data Engineer
6 25 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.93%) Analyst
9 19 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
10 16 (3.76%) Technical Architect
11 15 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (3.29%) Consultant
13 12 (2.82%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.58%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.35%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (25.35%) Terraform
2 42 (9.86%) REST
3 27 (6.34%) Kafka
4 23 (5.40%) React
5 22 (5.16%) .NET
6 20 (4.69%) OAuth
7 16 (3.76%) OpenID
8 14 (3.29%) OAuth2
9 13 (3.05%) SailPoint
9 13 (3.05%) SAML
10 12 (2.82%) .NET Core
10 12 (2.82%) ASP.NET
10 12 (2.82%) Middleware
10 12 (2.82%) PySpark
11 11 (2.58%) JSON
11 11 (2.58%) Playwright
12 10 (2.35%) HTML
12 10 (2.35%) Web Services
12 10 (2.35%) YAML
13 9 (2.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.75%) Data Centre
3 27 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (5.16%) AI Agents
5 21 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 17 (3.99%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.58%) PKI
10 10 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.88%) Replication
13 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (1.41%) Mobile App
15 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 54 (12.68%) Windows
2 28 (6.57%) Linux
2 28 (6.57%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.41%) Android
3 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.94%) Unix
5 3 (0.70%) AIX
5 3 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (43.66%) CI/CD
2 169 (39.67%) DevOps
3 113 (26.53%) Agile
4 102 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (18.31%) AI
7 74 (17.37%) Observability
8 69 (16.20%) Cybersecurity
9 64 (15.02%) Test Automation
10 62 (14.55%) Analytics
11 56 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (12.91%) Roadmaps
13 52 (12.21%) Migration
13 52 (12.21%) Platform Engineering
13 52 (12.21%) Software Engineering
14 49 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (10.80%) Data Engineering
16 45 (10.56%) Microservices
17 44 (10.33%) Validation
18 42 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 109 (25.59%) Python
2 59 (13.85%) SQL
3 56 (13.15%) Java
4 51 (11.97%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.63%) C#
6 23 (5.40%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.46%) Bash
8 15 (3.52%) Bicep
8 15 (3.52%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.11%) Groovy
10 8 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.64%) Go
11 7 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.41%) Scala
13 4 (0.94%) ABAP
13 4 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.87%) Degree
4 21 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.58%) CISSP
8 10 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.35%) PMP
9 9 (2.11%) CISM
10 8 (1.88%) CCNP
11 7 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.64%) CCSP
11 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.41%) CCSK
13 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.34%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.10%) QA
3 12 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.82%) GDPR
3 12 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.35%) NIST
5 7 (1.64%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.64%) WCAG
6 6 (1.41%) GRC
7 5 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.70%) GxP
9 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.47%) IASME
9 2 (0.47%) PMO
9 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (15.96%) Active Directory
2 53 (12.44%) Docker
3 14 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.35%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.64%) vSphere
8 5 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.70%) Firmware
9 3 (0.70%) NFS
9 3 (0.70%) SRDF
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.23%) Ceph
11 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 93 (21.83%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.75%) Ansible
3 32 (7.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (5.16%) Grafana
5 19 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.58%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.64%) Kustomize
9 6 (1.41%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.17%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.70%) Argo
11 3 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.70%) Packer
11 3 (0.70%) SCCM
11 3 (0.70%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.70%) vMotion
12 2 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 140 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.50%) Databricks
3 30 (7.04%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.10%) Google
5 17 (3.99%) Cisco
5 17 (3.99%) CyberArk
6 15 (3.52%) Foundry
6 15 (3.52%) SAP
6 15 (3.52%) VMware
7 13 (3.05%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.82%) Splunk
9 10 (2.35%) Okta
10 9 (2.11%) Citrix
10 9 (2.11%) IBM
10 9 (2.11%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.64%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.64%) Dell
11 7 (1.64%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.64%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.41%) Centrify