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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 431 194 205
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.85% 12.49% 13.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.20% 33.80% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 117 142
10th Percentile £335 £309 £351
25th Percentile £413 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.13% -8.00%
75th Percentile £591 £544 £604
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.88 - -
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £33.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +57.26% -13.29% -16.63%

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 1,046 574 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.04% 36.96% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 385 363
10th Percentile £303 £232 £288
25th Percentile £413 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.97 - £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 £38.38 - £26.05
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 203 £488 -2.50% 242
South Yorkshire +8 168 £518 +15.00% 89
North Yorkshire +7 31 £468 +146.05% 53
East Yorkshire -2 3 £338 - 19
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 43 (9.98%) SharePoint
2 28 (6.50%) Confluence
3 18 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.25%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.39%) Apache
5 6 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 181 (42.00%) AWS
2 122 (28.31%) GCP
3 74 (17.17%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (16.94%) GitHub
5 65 (15.08%) Entra ID
5 65 (15.08%) Power Platform
6 64 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (10.44%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.26%) Microsoft Copilot
9 25 (5.80%) PowerApps
10 21 (4.87%) OneDrive
11 20 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (3.94%) Serverless
13 16 (3.71%) Copilot Studio
13 16 (3.71%) SaaS
14 15 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.25%) Azure AI
16 12 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.78%) Power Automate
17 10 (2.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.73%) Firewall
2 28 (6.50%) DNS
3 20 (4.64%) Network Security
4 17 (3.94%) VPN
5 15 (3.48%) VLAN
6 14 (3.25%) LAN
6 14 (3.25%) WAN
7 13 (3.02%) DHCP
8 12 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (2.78%) WLAN
9 10 (2.32%) BGP
9 10 (2.32%) OSPF
10 9 (2.09%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (1.62%) SAN
12 6 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (1.39%) NAS
12 6 (1.39%) Wireless
13 5 (1.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.89%) Power BI
3 22 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.18%) Metadata
5 16 (3.71%) Big Data
5 16 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.25%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.86%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.16%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.16%) Redis
9 5 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.93%) Tableau
10 4 (0.93%) Trino
11 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.70%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 58 (13.46%) Jenkins
2 50 (11.60%) JIRA
3 32 (7.42%) Git
4 17 (3.94%) GitLab
5 12 (2.78%) Gatling
6 8 (1.86%) Maven
6 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.62%) JMeter
8 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.39%) Selenium
9 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.16%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.16%) Postman
10 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.70%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
General
1 122 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 116 (26.91%) Finance
3 39 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.66%) Banking
5 31 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.02%) Law
7 12 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.55%) Retail
9 10 (2.32%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.39%) Social Science
12 5 (1.16%) Legal
13 4 (0.93%) Military
14 3 (0.70%) Police
15 2 (0.46%) Billing
15 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (15.78%) Architect
2 63 (14.62%) Senior
3 53 (12.30%) Lead
4 35 (8.12%) Data Engineer
4 35 (8.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (7.89%) Developer
6 25 (5.80%) Analyst
7 23 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (3.48%) Technical Architect
10 14 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.02%) Consultant
12 12 (2.78%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (2.78%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.55%) Data Analyst
13 11 (2.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (25.52%) Terraform
2 41 (9.51%) REST
3 26 (6.03%) Kafka
4 22 (5.10%) .NET
5 21 (4.87%) React
6 18 (4.18%) OAuth
7 15 (3.48%) Playwright
8 14 (3.25%) OpenID
9 13 (3.02%) PySpark
9 13 (3.02%) SailPoint
10 12 (2.78%) ASP.NET
10 12 (2.78%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.55%) .NET Core
11 11 (2.55%) JSON
11 11 (2.55%) SAML
12 10 (2.32%) SOAP
12 10 (2.32%) Web Services
13 9 (2.09%) RESTful
13 9 (2.09%) Spring
13 9 (2.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.19%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.03%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.87%) AI Agents
5 21 (4.87%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.64%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (3.71%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.32%) PKI
10 7 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.62%) Replication
11 6 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.39%) NHS
12 4 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.76%) Windows
2 30 (6.96%) Linux
3 27 (6.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.39%) Android
4 6 (1.39%) Apple iOS
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
5 3 (0.70%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) 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
1 179 (41.53%) CI/CD
2 160 (37.12%) DevOps
3 103 (23.90%) Agile
4 100 (23.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (19.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 81 (18.79%) AI
7 74 (17.17%) Observability
8 67 (15.55%) Cybersecurity
9 64 (14.85%) Analytics
10 60 (13.92%) Roadmaps
11 54 (12.53%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (12.53%) Test Automation
12 51 (11.83%) Software Engineering
13 50 (11.60%) Data Engineering
13 50 (11.60%) Migration
14 48 (11.14%) Data Pipeline
15 47 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (10.44%) DevSecOps
17 43 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 105 (24.36%) Python
2 58 (13.46%) Java
3 57 (13.23%) SQL
4 51 (11.83%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.57%) C#
6 20 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.18%) Bash
8 15 (3.48%) Bicep
9 13 (3.02%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.32%) Scala
11 9 (2.09%) Groovy
11 9 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.39%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.16%) Go
14 4 (0.93%) ABAP
14 4 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.23%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 61 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.80%) Degree
4 19 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.55%) CISSP
9 9 (2.09%) CISM
10 8 (1.86%) CCNP
11 7 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.62%) CCSP
11 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.62%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.39%) CCSK
12 6 (1.39%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.39%) PMP
13 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.70%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.34%) QA
3 12 (2.78%) GDPR
4 11 (2.55%) NIST
5 10 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (1.62%) WCAG
8 6 (1.39%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.16%) GRC
10 4 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.70%) GxP
11 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.46%) IASME
12 2 (0.46%) PMO
12 2 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (16.01%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.23%) Docker
3 12 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.86%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.39%) vSphere
7 5 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.70%) Firmware
8 3 (0.70%) NFS
8 3 (0.70%) SRDF
9 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.23%) Ceph
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 94 (21.81%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (6.96%) Ansible
4 21 (4.87%) Grafana
5 18 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.02%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.09%) HAProxy
9 7 (1.62%) Kustomize
10 6 (1.39%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.70%) Argo
12 3 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.70%) Packer
12 3 (0.70%) SnapMirror
12 3 (0.70%) vMotion
13 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.46%) Podman
13 2 (0.46%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 153 (35.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.37%) Databricks
3 27 (6.26%) Google
3 27 (6.26%) ServiceNow
4 19 (4.41%) CyberArk
5 18 (4.18%) Foundry
6 17 (3.94%) Cisco
7 16 (3.71%) SAP
8 13 (3.02%) Splunk
8 13 (3.02%) VMware
9 10 (2.32%) Okta
9 10 (2.32%) Oracle
10 9 (2.09%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.09%) IBM
10 9 (2.09%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.86%) Citrix
12 7 (1.62%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.62%) Dell
12 7 (1.62%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.62%) Salesforce