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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 404 155 205
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.32% 11.73% 11.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.51% 32.49% 39.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 103 151
10th Percentile £313 £308 £350
25th Percentile £450 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £42.34
% change year-on-year +27.78% +6.28% -29.84%

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 1,077 477 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.18% 36.11% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 327 367
10th Percentile £313 £262 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £575
90th Percentile £688 £618 £640
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -1.94% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.48
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -33.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile - £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +7 203 £500 +5.26% 97
South Yorkshire +7 143 £529 +11.96% 56
North Yorkshire +5 27 £510 +63.20% 23
East Yorkshire -1 7 £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 44 (10.89%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.20%) Confluence
3 19 (4.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 167 (41.34%) AWS
2 109 (26.98%) GCP
3 69 (17.08%) Entra ID
4 66 (16.34%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (15.35%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (14.11%) Power Platform
7 55 (13.61%) GitHub
8 41 (10.15%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (7.43%) PowerApps
10 27 (6.68%) SaaS
11 25 (6.19%) Serverless
12 24 (5.94%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (5.45%) OneDrive
14 19 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (4.70%) PaaS
15 15 (3.71%) Copilot Studio
15 15 (3.71%) Power Automate
16 14 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (3.47%) Azure Functions
17 13 (3.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.47%) Firewall
1 14 (3.47%) Network Security
2 12 (2.97%) WAN
3 10 (2.48%) LAN
4 9 (2.23%) DNS
4 9 (2.23%) SAN
5 8 (1.98%) VPN
5 8 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.73%) Kerberos
6 7 (1.73%) WLAN
7 5 (1.24%) IPsec
7 5 (1.24%) VLAN
8 4 (0.99%) BGP
8 4 (0.99%) Internet
8 4 (0.99%) OSPF
8 4 (0.99%) SSL
8 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.99%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.74%) DHCP
9 3 (0.74%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.17%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.68%) Power BI
3 18 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.72%) Metadata
7 10 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.23%) Big Data
9 8 (1.98%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.73%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.74%) Parquet
12 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.50%) Redis
13 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.50%) Trino
14 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.14%) JIRA
3 23 (5.69%) Git
4 20 (4.95%) GitLab
5 14 (3.47%) Gatling
6 7 (1.73%) Maven
7 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.24%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.24%) JMeter
8 5 (1.24%) Postman
8 5 (1.24%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.24%) Selenium
9 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.99%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.99%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.50%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 95 (23.51%) Finance
3 33 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.93%) Banking
6 23 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.72%) Law
8 9 (2.23%) Publishing
9 8 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.98%) Legal
10 7 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.49%) Retail
11 6 (1.49%) Social Science
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.99%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Billing
14 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (18.81%) Architect
2 52 (12.87%) Senior
3 41 (10.15%) Lead
4 40 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (9.65%) Developer
6 27 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (6.68%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 20 (4.95%) Analyst
9 19 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.71%) Technical Architect
12 13 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.97%) Administrator
13 12 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.72%) 2nd Line Support
14 11 (2.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Consultant
15 10 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.15%) REST
2 24 (5.94%) .NET
2 24 (5.94%) OpenID
3 17 (4.21%) OAuth
4 16 (3.96%) Web Services
5 15 (3.71%) LDAP
5 15 (3.71%) SailPoint
6 14 (3.47%) Playwright
6 14 (3.47%) SAML
7 12 (2.97%) OAuth2
7 12 (2.97%) SAP Basis
8 11 (2.72%) PySpark
8 11 (2.72%) SOAP
9 10 (2.48%) Kafka
9 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Graph
9 10 (2.48%) React
10 9 (2.23%) .NET Core
10 9 (2.23%) ASP.NET
11 8 (1.98%) JSON
11 8 (1.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.11%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.44%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.48%) Taxonomies
9 9 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.73%) NHS
10 7 (1.73%) Replication
11 5 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.24%) FlexPod
12 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.63%) Windows
2 24 (5.94%) Linux
3 17 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.49%) VMS
6 4 (0.99%) Android
6 4 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.74%) AIX
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (40.84%) DevOps
2 158 (39.11%) CI/CD
3 95 (23.51%) Agile
4 77 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (15.59%) Roadmaps
6 58 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (13.86%) Migration
8 51 (12.62%) Observability
8 51 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (12.38%) AI
10 48 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (11.14%) Analytics
12 44 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 42 (10.40%) Identity Access Management
15 39 (9.65%) Containerisation
16 38 (9.41%) Test Automation
17 37 (9.16%) Data Pipeline
18 35 (8.66%) Microservices
19 34 (8.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 89 (22.03%) Python
2 56 (13.86%) SQL
3 48 (11.88%) Java
4 41 (10.15%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.45%) C#
6 20 (4.95%) Bash
7 14 (3.47%) Scala
8 13 (3.22%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.72%) Bicep
10 8 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.49%) Groovy
12 5 (1.24%) Go
12 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.99%) ABAP
13 4 (0.99%) Cypher
13 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Ruby
15 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 52 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.92%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.18%) Degree
4 16 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.98%) CISSP
8 7 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.49%) CISM
9 6 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.49%) PMP
10 5 (1.24%) OCP
10 5 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.74%) CCSK
12 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.46%) QA
2 15 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.23%) NIST
5 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.98%) GDPR
6 7 (1.73%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 6 (1.49%) WCAG
8 5 (1.24%) GRC
8 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.50%) SLA
12 1 (0.25%) GxP
12 1 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 56 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 43 (10.64%) Docker
3 18 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.98%) NFS
6 8 (1.98%) vSphere
7 5 (1.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.99%) RACF
9 3 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.74%) SRDF
9 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.25%) Ceph
10 1 (0.25%) KVM
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 97 (24.01%) Terraform
2 75 (18.56%) Kubernetes
3 31 (7.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (7.18%) Ansible
5 21 (5.20%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (3.71%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (3.22%) Grafana
7 13 (3.22%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.23%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.98%) SnapMirror
10 5 (1.24%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.99%) Istio
11 4 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.74%) Argo
12 3 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.50%) Podman
13 2 (0.50%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (36.39%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.65%) Google
3 33 (8.17%) Databricks
4 28 (6.93%) ServiceNow
5 24 (5.94%) SAP
6 17 (4.21%) Okta
7 16 (3.96%) Foundry
8 15 (3.71%) CyberArk
9 14 (3.47%) VMware
10 12 (2.97%) Oracle
10 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.98%) NetApp
11 8 (1.98%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.73%) Aruba
12 7 (1.73%) Splunk
13 6 (1.49%) Citrix
14 5 (1.24%) Apple
14 5 (1.24%) Cisco
14 5 (1.24%) IBM
14 5 (1.24%) Salesforce