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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 341 111 196
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.00% 10.94% 11.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.41% 29.29% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 79 137
10th Percentile £331 £263 £263
25th Percentile £431 £325 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £518 £588
90th Percentile £688 £550 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £49.15 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £53.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.48% +52.86% -36.36%

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 963 379 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.55% 37.34% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 272 325
10th Percentile £313 £243 £250
25th Percentile £413 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £649 £641
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £29.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.69 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £99.42 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £45.25 £25.98 £20.77
% change year-on-year +74.21% +25.06% -35.70%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +4 169 £488 +14.71% 93
South Yorkshire +11 126 £500 +11.11% 31
North Yorkshire +2 18 £475 +31.03% 10
East Yorkshire -2 14 £325 - 10
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 18 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.99%) Confluence
3 12 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.59%) Apache
5 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.47%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (7.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.88%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (46.04%) AWS
2 107 (31.38%) GCP
3 59 (17.30%) Entra ID
4 49 (14.37%) SaaS
5 48 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (12.32%) GitHub
7 39 (11.44%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (9.68%) Power Platform
9 30 (8.80%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (6.45%) Serverless
11 21 (6.16%) OpenShift
11 21 (6.16%) PaaS
12 15 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (4.11%) Azure AKS
14 13 (3.81%) Azure Functions
14 13 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (3.81%) IaaS
14 13 (3.81%) PowerApps
15 11 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.11%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.81%) Firewall
3 11 (3.23%) DNS
3 11 (3.23%) WAN
3 11 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (2.93%) LAN
5 9 (2.64%) Kerberos
6 7 (2.05%) SAN
7 6 (1.76%) SSL
8 5 (1.47%) IPsec
9 4 (1.17%) Network Security
9 4 (1.17%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.17%) VPN
10 3 (0.88%) Internet
10 3 (0.88%) PSTN
11 2 (0.59%) NAS
11 2 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.59%) VoIP
12 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.87%) Power BI
3 18 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.76%) Delta Lake
7 6 (1.76%) Metadata
8 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.47%) MySQL
9 4 (1.17%) Big Data
9 4 (1.17%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.59%) Tableau
12 1 (0.29%) Cloud Spanner
12 1 (0.29%) Parquet
12 1 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (16.72%) Jenkins
2 44 (12.90%) JIRA
3 30 (8.80%) GitLab
4 23 (6.74%) Git
5 14 (4.11%) Gatling
5 14 (4.11%) Selenium
6 13 (3.81%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.81%) REST Assured
7 12 (3.52%) Postman
8 8 (2.35%) Maven
9 7 (2.05%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.47%) JMeter
10 5 (1.47%) TestRail
11 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.17%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.17%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.17%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.59%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.59%) MSI
12 2 (0.59%) SoapUI
General
1 113 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.35%) Finance
3 35 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.62%) Banking
6 21 (6.16%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.69%) Publishing
8 9 (2.64%) Legal
9 7 (2.05%) Law
10 5 (1.47%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Military
12 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.59%) Retail
12 2 (0.59%) Social Science
13 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (12.90%) Architect
2 41 (12.02%) Senior
3 38 (11.14%) Lead
4 30 (8.80%) Developer
5 28 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.28%) Analyst
8 16 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (4.11%) Administrator
9 14 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.93%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.93%) Test Automation Engineer
11 10 (2.93%) Test Engineer
12 9 (2.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (2.64%) Senior Architect
12 9 (2.64%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.85%) REST
2 31 (9.09%) OpenID
3 25 (7.33%) LDAP
4 22 (6.45%) .NET
5 19 (5.57%) OAuth
6 18 (5.28%) SAP Basis
7 16 (4.69%) SailPoint
8 14 (4.11%) Playwright
8 14 (4.11%) SAML
9 12 (3.52%) OAuth2
10 11 (3.23%) React
10 11 (3.23%) RESTful
11 10 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (2.93%) Middleware
12 9 (2.64%) Web Services
13 8 (2.35%) Kafka
13 8 (2.35%) Node.js
14 7 (2.05%) FHIR
14 7 (2.05%) SOAP
14 7 (2.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.85%) Onboarding
3 28 (8.21%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (5.57%) Taxonomies
6 14 (4.11%) NHS
7 13 (3.81%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.35%) Security Posture
11 7 (2.05%) IoT
12 6 (1.76%) CMDB
12 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.47%) FlexPod
13 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 3 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.38%) Windows
2 28 (8.21%) Linux
3 8 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.35%) VMS
4 6 (1.76%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.76%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.76%) Unix
5 5 (1.47%) Android
5 5 (1.47%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.88%) AIX
7 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (42.52%) DevOps
2 137 (40.18%) CI/CD
3 88 (25.81%) Agile
4 65 (19.06%) Roadmaps
5 51 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (14.66%) Containerisation
7 49 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (14.37%) Migration
8 40 (11.73%) Test Automation
9 39 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (11.44%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 36 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
10 36 (10.56%) Microservices
10 36 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (10.26%) Analytics
11 35 (10.26%) Data Governance
11 35 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (10.26%) Observability
12 34 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (24.34%) Python
2 57 (16.72%) Java
2 57 (16.72%) SQL
3 32 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 23 (6.74%) Bash
5 20 (5.87%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.99%) C#
7 13 (3.81%) Scala
8 10 (2.93%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.35%) Bicep
9 8 (2.35%) PHP
10 7 (2.05%) Go
11 5 (1.47%) Groovy
11 5 (1.47%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.17%) Cypher
12 4 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.29%) ABAP
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (10.85%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.33%) Degree
3 24 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.47%) OCP
6 5 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.17%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.88%) PMP
9 2 (0.59%) CCNA
9 2 (0.59%) CISM
9 2 (0.59%) CISSP
9 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.29%) CCSK
10 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.87%) QA
2 15 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.05%) HIPAA
3 7 (2.05%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.76%) HL7
5 5 (1.47%) NIST
5 5 (1.47%) SLA
6 4 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.88%) GDPR
8 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.59%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.29%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (13.49%) Docker
2 28 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.28%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.35%) NFS
6 7 (2.05%) vSphere
7 5 (1.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.47%) RACF
8 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.29%) Ceph
10 1 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.29%) KVM
10 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.29%) SRDF
10 1 (0.29%) XenApp
10 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (21.70%) Kubernetes
2 69 (20.23%) Terraform
3 33 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
4 27 (7.92%) Ansible
5 18 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (4.69%) Grafana
7 9 (2.64%) HAProxy
8 8 (2.35%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.76%) SnapMirror
10 5 (1.47%) Istio
10 5 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.59%) Argo
12 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.29%) IBM Guardium
13 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.29%) Puppet
13 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 116 (34.02%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.97%) Google
3 33 (9.68%) SAP
4 31 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 25 (7.33%) Okta
6 17 (4.99%) Databricks
6 17 (4.99%) Oracle
7 13 (3.81%) VMware
8 12 (3.52%) Splunk
9 10 (2.93%) OpenAI
10 9 (2.64%) Red Hat
11 8 (2.35%) Brio
12 7 (2.05%) NetApp
12 7 (2.05%) Veeam
13 6 (1.76%) Adobe
13 6 (1.76%) Cisco
14 5 (1.47%) Aruba
14 5 (1.47%) Foundry
14 5 (1.47%) IBM
14 5 (1.47%) Meraki