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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 370 106 201
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.34% 10.02% 12.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.07% 28.73% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 73 145
10th Percentile £331 £263 £321
25th Percentile £449 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £600
90th Percentile £694 £550 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 0
10th Percentile £18.95 - -
25th Percentile £44.88 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +10.71% -44.44%

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 998 369 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.67% 34.88% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 260 335
10th Percentile £325 £257 £263
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £561 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £626 £643
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -60.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £17.31
90th Percentile £69.80 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +7 181 £500 +11.11% 88
South Yorkshire +11 138 £512 +10.70% 31
North Yorkshire +5 18 £450 +50.00% 9
East Yorkshire +2 14 £325 - 4
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 31 (8.38%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.59%) Confluence
3 14 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Acrobat
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (7.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (45.41%) AWS
2 113 (30.54%) GCP
3 63 (17.03%) Entra ID
4 50 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (12.43%) SaaS
7 44 (11.89%) GitHub
8 35 (9.46%) Power Platform
9 32 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (7.03%) Serverless
11 21 (5.68%) OpenShift
12 20 (5.41%) PaaS
13 19 (5.14%) PowerApps
14 15 (4.05%) Azure Functions
14 15 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (3.78%) OneDrive
16 13 (3.51%) Azure AKS
16 13 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.51%) IaaS
17 12 (3.24%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.78%) Firewall
2 12 (3.24%) DNS
2 12 (3.24%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.24%) WAN
3 11 (2.97%) LAN
3 11 (2.97%) Network Security
4 9 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.16%) Kerberos
5 8 (2.16%) SAN
6 5 (1.35%) IPsec
6 5 (1.35%) SSL
7 4 (1.08%) Unified Communications
7 4 (1.08%) VLAN
7 4 (1.08%) VPN
7 4 (1.08%) WLAN
8 3 (0.81%) Internet
8 3 (0.81%) PSTN
9 2 (0.54%) NAS
9 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.27%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (4.59%) Power BI
5 12 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.16%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.16%) Delta Lake
6 8 (2.16%) Metadata
7 7 (1.89%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.62%) Big Data
9 5 (1.35%) MySQL
10 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.81%) Parquet
12 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.54%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.27%) Redis
13 1 (0.27%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (15.41%) Jenkins
2 50 (13.51%) JIRA
3 32 (8.65%) GitLab
4 27 (7.30%) Git
5 14 (3.78%) Gatling
5 14 (3.78%) Selenium
6 13 (3.51%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.51%) REST Assured
7 11 (2.97%) Postman
8 8 (2.16%) Maven
9 6 (1.62%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.35%) JMeter
10 5 (1.35%) TestRail
11 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.08%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.08%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.81%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 112 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 83 (22.43%) Finance
3 34 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (9.19%) Banking
4 30 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.32%) Publishing
7 9 (2.43%) Law
8 7 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.89%) Legal
9 5 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.81%) Military
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Retail
12 2 (0.54%) Social Science
13 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (15.14%) Architect
2 47 (12.70%) Lead
3 42 (11.35%) Senior
4 33 (8.92%) Developer
5 32 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.59%) Analyst
9 16 (4.32%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) Administrator
10 14 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.97%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.70%) Consultant
13 10 (2.70%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.70%) Test Automation Engineer
13 10 (2.70%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.43%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.43%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.54%) REST
2 31 (8.38%) OpenID
3 24 (6.49%) .NET
4 23 (6.22%) LDAP
5 18 (4.86%) OAuth
5 18 (4.86%) SailPoint
5 18 (4.86%) SAP Basis
6 14 (3.78%) Playwright
6 14 (3.78%) SAML
7 12 (3.24%) Middleware
7 12 (3.24%) OAuth2
7 12 (3.24%) React
7 12 (3.24%) Web Services
8 11 (2.97%) Kafka
8 11 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 10 (2.70%) RESTful
10 9 (2.43%) PySpark
10 9 (2.43%) SOAP
11 8 (2.16%) JSON
12 7 (1.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.54%) Onboarding
2 36 (9.73%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.41%) Taxonomies
5 10 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.43%) NHS
7 7 (1.89%) IoT
8 6 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.35%) CMDB
9 5 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.35%) FlexPod
10 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.00%) Windows
2 28 (7.57%) Linux
3 8 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.16%) VMS
4 6 (1.62%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.62%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.62%) Unix
5 5 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.08%) Android
6 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.81%) AIX
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (40.81%) DevOps
2 144 (38.92%) CI/CD
3 96 (25.95%) Agile
4 68 (18.38%) Roadmaps
5 56 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 50 (13.51%) Migration
8 47 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (12.43%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (11.35%) Identity Access Management
11 42 (11.35%) Observability
12 40 (10.81%) Test Automation
13 38 (10.27%) Data Governance
13 38 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
14 37 (10.00%) Microservices
15 36 (9.73%) AI
15 36 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (22.16%) Python
2 62 (16.76%) SQL
3 56 (15.14%) Java
4 34 (9.19%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.95%) Bash
6 20 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.14%) C#
8 14 (3.78%) Scala
9 8 (2.16%) Go
9 8 (2.16%) PHP
9 8 (2.16%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.89%) Bicep
11 5 (1.35%) Groovy
11 5 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.08%) Cypher
13 3 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) ABAP
14 1 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 40 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.57%) Degree
3 27 (7.30%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.89%) CISSP
7 6 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.62%) CISM
7 6 (1.62%) PMP
8 5 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.35%) OCP
8 5 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.08%) CCSP
9 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.81%) CCSK
10 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.41%) QA
2 13 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.16%) NIST
4 7 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.62%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.62%) SLA
6 4 (1.08%) GRC
6 4 (1.08%) HL7
6 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.08%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.81%) GDPR
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (11.35%) Docker
2 33 (8.92%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.16%) NFS
6 7 (1.89%) vSphere
7 5 (1.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.35%) RACF
8 4 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.27%) Ceph
11 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.27%) KVM
11 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.27%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 75 (20.27%) Kubernetes
2 74 (20.00%) Terraform
3 31 (8.38%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (7.57%) Ansible
5 21 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.05%) Grafana
7 9 (2.43%) HAProxy
7 9 (2.43%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (2.43%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.62%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.08%) Istio
9 4 (1.08%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.54%) Argo
11 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.27%) IBM Guardium
12 1 (0.27%) Podman
12 1 (0.27%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 125 (33.78%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.73%) ServiceNow
3 35 (9.46%) Google
4 33 (8.92%) SAP
5 26 (7.03%) Okta
6 25 (6.76%) Databricks
7 17 (4.59%) Oracle
8 13 (3.51%) VMware
9 10 (2.70%) Splunk
10 9 (2.43%) OpenAI
10 9 (2.43%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.89%) Foundry
11 7 (1.89%) NetApp
12 6 (1.62%) Brio
12 6 (1.62%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.62%) IBM
12 6 (1.62%) Veeam
13 5 (1.35%) Adobe
13 5 (1.35%) Aruba
13 5 (1.35%) Cisco