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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 309 140 235
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.52% 14.94% 12.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.18% 39.11% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 95 160
10th Percentile £223 £285 £259
25th Percentile £400 £375 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.81% -11.14%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £615 £700
England median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £43.45 - -
25th Percentile £54.25 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £62.00
75th Percentile £60.69 - -
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +64.29% -24.21% -16.04%

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 854 358 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.89% 38.21% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 243 420
10th Percentile £250 £264 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £698 £669
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -63.64%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -2 159 £488 +2.63% 98
South Yorkshire -1 105 £505 -2.88% 44
North Yorkshire -2 19 £450 +63.64% 19
East Yorkshire - 10 £325 - 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 21 (6.80%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.83%) Confluence
3 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.29%) Apache
5 4 (1.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.62%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (6.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.97%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.32%) Magento
6 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 152 (49.19%) AWS
2 122 (39.48%) GCP
3 59 (19.09%) Entra ID
4 45 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (12.62%) SaaS
6 34 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (10.36%) GitHub
8 22 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (7.12%) Serverless
9 19 (6.15%) Power Platform
10 17 (5.50%) Azure AKS
11 16 (5.18%) OpenShift
12 15 (4.85%) OneDrive
13 13 (4.21%) PaaS
14 11 (3.56%) Azure Storage
15 10 (3.24%) Azure Functions
15 10 (3.24%) IaaS
16 9 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 8 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.06%) Firewall
2 17 (5.50%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.21%) DNS
3 13 (4.21%) WAN
3 13 (4.21%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (3.88%) LAN
5 9 (2.91%) Kerberos
5 9 (2.91%) Network Security
6 7 (2.27%) SSL
6 7 (2.27%) VPN
7 6 (1.94%) IPsec
8 5 (1.62%) HTTP
9 4 (1.29%) DHCP
9 4 (1.29%) VLAN
9 4 (1.29%) VoIP
10 3 (0.97%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.97%) SAN
11 2 (0.65%) BGP
11 2 (0.65%) OSPF
11 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.50%) Power BI
3 14 (4.53%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.94%) MySQL
7 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.62%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.62%) Redis
7 5 (1.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.29%) Metadata
8 4 (1.29%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.97%) Tableau
10 2 (0.65%) DataStage
10 2 (0.65%) DB2
10 2 (0.65%) GIS
10 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (16.50%) Jenkins
2 41 (13.27%) JIRA
3 27 (8.74%) GitLab
4 26 (8.41%) Git
5 17 (5.50%) Selenium
6 14 (4.53%) Cucumber
6 14 (4.53%) Postman
7 12 (3.88%) REST Assured
8 8 (2.59%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.59%) TestRail
9 5 (1.62%) JMeter
9 5 (1.62%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.29%) Gatling
10 4 (1.29%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.29%) Maven
10 4 (1.29%) Mocha
10 4 (1.29%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.29%) Storybook
11 3 (0.97%) JUnit
12 2 (0.65%) MSI
General
1 114 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.53%) Finance
3 34 (11.00%) Banking
4 33 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.56%) Legal
8 10 (3.24%) Publishing
9 6 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.94%) Retail
10 5 (1.62%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.62%) Law
10 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.65%) Local Government
12 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (16.18%) Architect
2 43 (13.92%) Senior
3 28 (9.06%) Lead
4 25 (8.09%) Developer
5 19 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (4.85%) Analyst
8 14 (4.53%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (4.21%) IT Support
10 11 (3.56%) Senior Architect
10 11 (3.56%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.24%) Project Manager
12 9 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (2.91%) Test Automation Engineer
12 9 (2.91%) Test Engineer
13 8 (2.59%) Administrator
13 8 (2.59%) Consultant
13 8 (2.59%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.59%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.33%) REST
2 28 (9.06%) OpenID
3 24 (7.77%) LDAP
4 23 (7.44%) React
5 22 (7.12%) RESTful
6 21 (6.80%) Node.js
6 21 (6.80%) OAuth
7 18 (5.83%) .NET
7 18 (5.83%) SailPoint
7 18 (5.83%) SAML
8 13 (4.21%) CSS
8 13 (4.21%) HTML
9 12 (3.88%) SAP Basis
10 9 (2.91%) JWT
10 9 (2.91%) Kafka
11 8 (2.59%) FHIR
11 8 (2.59%) Middleware
11 8 (2.59%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.59%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.03%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.18%) NHS
5 14 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.21%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.56%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.91%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.27%) CMDB
10 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.94%) IoT
11 6 (1.94%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.97%) iPhone
14 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.94%) Windows
2 28 (9.06%) Linux
3 9 (2.91%) Unix
4 5 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.29%) VMS
5 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.97%) Android
7 2 (0.65%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (36.89%) DevOps
2 110 (35.60%) CI/CD
3 75 (24.27%) Agile
4 54 (17.48%) Roadmaps
5 52 (16.83%) Containerisation
6 50 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (14.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (13.59%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (13.59%) Microservices
9 39 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (12.62%) Migration
10 36 (11.65%) Test Automation
11 32 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (10.03%) ITIL
13 29 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (9.06%) Data Governance
15 27 (8.74%) Mentoring
16 26 (8.41%) Analytics
16 26 (8.41%) DevSecOps
16 26 (8.41%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (25.57%) Python
2 62 (20.06%) SQL
3 41 (13.27%) Java
4 36 (11.65%) PowerShell
5 29 (9.39%) Bash
6 27 (8.74%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.21%) C#
9 9 (2.91%) PHP
10 7 (2.27%) Bicep
11 6 (1.94%) Go
12 5 (1.62%) Groovy
13 4 (1.29%) Cypher
13 4 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.29%) Scala
14 3 (0.97%) Rust
14 3 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.65%) Solidity
15 2 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.50%) Degree
3 10 (3.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (2.27%) CISSP
5 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.62%) CEH
5 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.29%) CISM
6 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.97%) CCSK
7 3 (0.97%) CCSP
7 3 (0.97%) GIAC
7 3 (0.97%) GWAPT
7 3 (0.97%) OCP
7 3 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.97%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.15%) QA
2 16 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.56%) GDPR
4 8 (2.59%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.94%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.94%) HL7
6 6 (1.94%) NIST
7 5 (1.62%) SLA
8 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.29%) WCAG
9 3 (0.97%) GRC
9 3 (0.97%) PSD2
9 3 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.32%) COBIT
11 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (15.21%) Docker
2 36 (11.65%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (1.62%) RACF
5 5 (1.62%) vSphere
6 3 (0.97%) NFS
7 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.32%) Ceph
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) QEMU
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.32%) XenApp
8 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (20.71%) Kubernetes
2 59 (19.09%) Terraform
3 30 (9.71%) Ansible
4 25 (8.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (8.09%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (5.18%) Grafana
6 10 (3.24%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.94%) NetBackup
7 6 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.29%) Istio
9 2 (0.65%) Argo
9 2 (0.65%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.65%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.32%) Kibana
10 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.32%) logstash
10 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 76 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.97%) Google
3 30 (9.71%) SAP
4 27 (8.74%) ServiceNow
5 19 (6.15%) Oracle
6 17 (5.50%) Splunk
7 16 (5.18%) Okta
8 15 (4.85%) VMware
9 12 (3.88%) F5
10 10 (3.24%) Cisco
11 9 (2.91%) OpenAI
12 8 (2.59%) Databricks
13 7 (2.27%) CyberArk
14 6 (1.94%) Adobe
14 6 (1.94%) ESRI
14 6 (1.94%) HP
14 6 (1.94%) Meraki
14 6 (1.94%) Veeam
14 6 (1.94%) Veritas
15 5 (1.62%) MobileIron