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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 421 199 202
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.61% 12.88% 13.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.07% 33.73% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 120 140
10th Percentile £349 £316 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.66% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £526 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +0.24% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £46.88 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £34.24 £35.00
% change year-on-year +53.33% -2.17% -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 1,025 590 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.58% 38.19% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 395 363
10th Percentile £314 £235 £288
25th Percentile £413 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £610 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.69 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +809.09% +3.51%
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £26.05
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -2 192 £500 - 208
South Yorkshire +8 173 £518 +9.11% 92
North Yorkshire +5 30 £460 +143.71% 48
East Yorkshire -2 3 £338 - 17
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 42 (9.98%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.41%) Confluence
3 18 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.33%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.66%) Apache
6 6 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.19%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 184 (43.71%) AWS
2 130 (30.88%) GCP
3 74 (17.58%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (16.63%) GitHub
5 66 (15.68%) Entra ID
6 65 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (13.54%) Power Platform
8 42 (9.98%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (4.75%) OneDrive
11 20 (4.75%) PowerApps
12 16 (3.80%) Serverless
13 14 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
13 14 (3.33%) SaaS
14 13 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (2.61%) Azure AI
16 11 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 11 (2.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.60%) Firewall
2 29 (6.89%) DNS
3 21 (4.99%) Network Security
4 18 (4.28%) VPN
5 16 (3.80%) VLAN
6 14 (3.33%) DHCP
7 13 (3.09%) LAN
7 13 (3.09%) WAN
8 12 (2.85%) WLAN
9 11 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.38%) BGP
10 10 (2.38%) OSPF
11 9 (2.14%) TCP/IP
12 7 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (1.66%) SAN
13 6 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (1.43%) NAS
13 6 (1.43%) Wireless
14 5 (1.19%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.60%) Power BI
2 29 (6.89%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.04%) Big Data
4 17 (4.04%) Metadata
5 12 (2.85%) Data Lake
5 12 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.66%) Delta Lake
6 7 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.19%) Neo4j
7 5 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.19%) Tableau
7 5 (1.19%) Trino
8 4 (0.95%) Redis
8 4 (0.95%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (12.35%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.64%) JIRA
3 33 (7.84%) Git
4 17 (4.04%) GitLab
5 9 (2.14%) Gatling
6 8 (1.90%) JMeter
6 8 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.43%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.43%) Selenium
8 5 (1.19%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.19%) Maven
8 5 (1.19%) Postman
9 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.71%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.71%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.48%) eggPlant
General
1 129 (30.64%) Social Skills
2 116 (27.55%) Finance
3 39 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.55%) Banking
5 28 (6.65%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.61%) Law
6 11 (2.61%) Retail
7 10 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.95%) Military
11 4 (0.95%) Social Science
12 3 (0.71%) Legal
12 3 (0.71%) Police
13 2 (0.48%) Billing
13 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (17.58%) Architect
2 64 (15.20%) Senior
3 54 (12.83%) Lead
4 34 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (7.84%) Data Engineer
5 33 (7.84%) Developer
6 25 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (4.99%) Analyst
9 19 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (3.80%) Technical Architect
11 15 (3.56%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.33%) Consultant
13 13 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (2.85%) 2nd Line Support
14 12 (2.85%) Security Engineer
15 11 (2.61%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (25.65%) Terraform
2 42 (9.98%) REST
3 26 (6.18%) Kafka
4 23 (5.46%) React
5 21 (4.99%) .NET
6 20 (4.75%) OAuth
7 16 (3.80%) OpenID
8 14 (3.33%) OAuth2
9 13 (3.09%) SailPoint
9 13 (3.09%) SAML
10 12 (2.85%) .NET Core
10 12 (2.85%) ASP.NET
10 12 (2.85%) PySpark
11 11 (2.61%) Middleware
11 11 (2.61%) Playwright
12 10 (2.38%) JSON
12 10 (2.38%) SOAP
12 10 (2.38%) Web Services
13 9 (2.14%) Node.js
13 9 (2.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.84%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.65%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (4.75%) AI Agents
4 20 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.38%) PKI
10 9 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.90%) Replication
12 6 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.30%) Windows
2 30 (7.13%) Linux
3 29 (6.89%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.43%) Android
4 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.95%) Unix
6 3 (0.71%) AIX
6 3 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (42.52%) CI/CD
2 164 (38.95%) DevOps
3 102 (24.23%) Agile
4 99 (23.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (18.05%) AI
7 74 (17.58%) Observability
8 69 (16.39%) Cybersecurity
9 61 (14.49%) Analytics
10 56 (13.30%) Roadmaps
11 55 (13.06%) Test Automation
12 52 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (11.88%) Migration
13 50 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
13 50 (11.88%) Software Engineering
14 47 (11.16%) Data Engineering
15 46 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 44 (10.45%) Validation
17 43 (10.21%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 102 (24.23%) Python
2 56 (13.30%) SQL
3 52 (12.35%) Java
4 51 (12.11%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.23%) C#
6 20 (4.75%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.28%) Bash
8 15 (3.56%) Bicep
9 13 (3.09%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.14%) Groovy
11 8 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.66%) Go
13 6 (1.43%) Scala
14 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.95%) ABAP
15 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.24%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 57 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.18%) Degree
4 21 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.56%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.61%) CISSP
8 9 (2.14%) CISM
8 9 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.90%) CCNP
10 7 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.66%) CCSP
10 7 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.66%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.66%) PMP
11 6 (1.43%) CCSK
12 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.94%) QA
3 13 (3.09%) GDPR
3 13 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.61%) NIST
5 9 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.90%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.66%) WCAG
8 6 (1.43%) GRC
8 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (1.19%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.71%) GxP
10 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.48%) IASME
11 2 (0.48%) PMO
11 2 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (16.63%) Active Directory
2 49 (11.64%) Docker
3 14 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.38%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.66%) vSphere
8 5 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.71%) Firmware
9 3 (0.71%) NFS
9 3 (0.71%) SRDF
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.24%) Ceph
11 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 89 (21.14%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.60%) Ansible
2 32 (7.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (4.75%) Grafana
4 17 (4.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.85%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.66%) Kustomize
8 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.19%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.71%) Argo
11 3 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.71%) Packer
11 3 (0.71%) SCCM
11 3 (0.71%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.71%) vMotion
12 2 (0.48%) Podman
12 2 (0.48%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 140 (33.25%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.40%) Databricks
3 31 (7.36%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.18%) Google
5 19 (4.51%) CyberArk
6 17 (4.04%) Cisco
7 15 (3.56%) Foundry
7 15 (3.56%) SAP
7 15 (3.56%) VMware
8 14 (3.33%) Splunk
9 13 (3.09%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.61%) Okta
11 10 (2.38%) IBM
12 9 (2.14%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.90%) Citrix
14 7 (1.66%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.66%) Dell
14 7 (1.66%) Oracle
14 7 (1.66%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.66%) Salesforce