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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 429 219 197
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.06% 13.15% 13.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.27% 34.49% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 132 135
10th Percentile £350 £305 £368
25th Percentile £413 £396 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -4.10% -6.82%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £613
90th Percentile £688 £686 £650
England median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £33.39 £35.00
% change year-on-year +57.26% -4.61% -24.21%

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 1,015 635 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.63% 38.14% 35.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 418 361
10th Percentile £313 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £604 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - £15.58
25th Percentile £14.41 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +852.38% -6.71%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £28.75
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 9 October 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
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 9 October 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 -2 197 £495 -1.00% 229
South Yorkshire +11 177 £513 +6.77% 104
North Yorkshire +5 29 £468 +147.68% 42
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 (10.02%) SharePoint
2 32 (7.46%) Confluence
3 19 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.80%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.86%) Apache
6 6 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.17%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 184 (42.89%) AWS
2 132 (30.77%) GCP
3 77 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
4 76 (17.72%) GitHub
5 72 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (15.15%) Entra ID
7 59 (13.75%) Power Platform
8 43 (10.02%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (5.83%) Microsoft Copilot
10 24 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (4.66%) OneDrive
12 19 (4.43%) PowerApps
13 17 (3.96%) Serverless
14 15 (3.50%) Copilot Studio
15 13 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 12 (2.80%) Azure AI
16 12 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (2.33%) Azure Databricks
17 10 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.93%) Firewall
2 31 (7.23%) DNS
3 23 (5.36%) Network Security
4 18 (4.20%) VPN
5 16 (3.73%) VLAN
6 14 (3.26%) DHCP
7 12 (2.80%) LAN
7 12 (2.80%) WAN
7 12 (2.80%) WLAN
8 10 (2.33%) BGP
8 10 (2.33%) OSPF
8 10 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (2.10%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (1.40%) SAN
11 6 (1.40%) Wireless
12 5 (1.17%) IPsec
12 5 (1.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.93%) Power BI
2 29 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.96%) Metadata
5 15 (3.50%) Big Data
6 12 (2.80%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.63%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.17%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (1.17%) Tableau
9 5 (1.17%) Trino
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.93%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.93%) Redis
10 4 (0.93%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (12.35%) Jenkins
2 51 (11.89%) JIRA
3 30 (6.99%) Git
4 16 (3.73%) GitLab
5 11 (2.56%) JMeter
6 10 (2.33%) Selenium
7 8 (1.86%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.86%) Gatling
7 8 (1.86%) Postman
7 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.40%) LoadRunner
10 5 (1.17%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.93%) Maven
12 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.47%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.47%) Newman
13 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 136 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 127 (29.60%) Finance
3 42 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (9.79%) Banking
4 27 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.80%) Financial Institution
5 12 (2.80%) Law
6 11 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (2.56%) Retail
7 9 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.17%) Legal
11 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.93%) Social Science
12 3 (0.70%) Police
13 2 (0.47%) Billing
13 2 (0.47%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (18.18%) Architect
2 61 (14.22%) Senior
3 54 (12.59%) Lead
4 37 (8.62%) Developer
5 33 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 28 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (4.43%) Analyst
11 17 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (3.73%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (3.26%) Consultant
14 13 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
16 11 (2.56%) Data Architect
16 11 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 10 (2.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 10 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (25.17%) Terraform
2 44 (10.26%) REST
3 27 (6.29%) Kafka
4 25 (5.83%) .NET
4 25 (5.83%) React
5 21 (4.90%) OAuth
6 17 (3.96%) OpenID
7 15 (3.50%) OAuth2
8 14 (3.26%) SAML
9 13 (3.03%) .NET Core
9 13 (3.03%) ASP.NET
9 13 (3.03%) SailPoint
10 12 (2.80%) Middleware
10 12 (2.80%) Playwright
10 12 (2.80%) PySpark
11 11 (2.56%) JSON
12 10 (2.33%) HTML
12 10 (2.33%) Node.js
12 10 (2.33%) Web Services
12 10 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (5.13%) AI Agents
6 19 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 18 (4.20%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.80%) PKI
10 11 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.63%) Replication
13 6 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.93%) Autonomous Agent
14 4 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (11.66%) Windows
2 28 (6.53%) Windows Server
3 27 (6.29%) Linux
4 4 (0.93%) Unix
5 3 (0.70%) AIX
5 3 (0.70%) Android
5 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.47%) 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
1 186 (43.36%) CI/CD
2 171 (39.86%) DevOps
3 115 (26.81%) Agile
4 102 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 93 (21.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (18.18%) AI
7 75 (17.48%) Observability
8 71 (16.55%) Cybersecurity
9 63 (14.69%) Analytics
9 63 (14.69%) Test Automation
10 58 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (12.82%) Roadmaps
12 53 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (11.66%) Migration
13 50 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
13 50 (11.66%) Software Engineering
14 44 (10.26%) Microservices
14 44 (10.26%) Validation
15 42 (9.79%) Containerisation
16 41 (9.56%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 109 (25.41%) Python
2 59 (13.75%) SQL
3 57 (13.29%) Java
4 50 (11.66%) PowerShell
5 27 (6.29%) C#
6 25 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.20%) Bash
7 18 (4.20%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.50%) Bicep
9 9 (2.10%) Groovy
10 8 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.63%) Go
11 7 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.40%) Scala
13 4 (0.93%) ABAP
14 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 60 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 45 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.06%) Degree
4 20 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (3.73%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.56%) CISSP
8 11 (2.56%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.56%) PMP
9 10 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.10%) CISM
11 8 (1.86%) CCNP
12 7 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.63%) CCSP
12 7 (1.63%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.40%) CCSK
14 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.53%) QA
2 27 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.03%) GDPR
4 12 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.33%) NIST
6 7 (1.63%) WCAG
7 6 (1.40%) GRC
7 6 (1.40%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.70%) GxP
10 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.47%) IASME
10 2 (0.47%) PMO
10 2 (0.47%) SLA
11 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (16.08%) Active Directory
2 52 (12.12%) Docker
3 13 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.10%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.40%) vSphere
8 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) Firmware
10 2 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.47%) NFS
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.47%) SRDF
11 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.23%) Ceph
11 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 94 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.69%) Ansible
3 32 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (5.13%) Grafana
5 19 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.63%) Kustomize
9 5 (1.17%) HAProxy
9 5 (1.17%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.70%) Argo
10 3 (0.70%) Packer
10 3 (0.70%) SCCM
10 3 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.70%) vMotion
11 2 (0.47%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.47%) Podman
11 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.47%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 147 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.96%) Databricks
3 28 (6.53%) Google
4 26 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.73%) Cisco
5 16 (3.73%) CyberArk
6 15 (3.50%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.50%) Foundry
6 15 (3.50%) SAP
7 13 (3.03%) Splunk
7 13 (3.03%) VMware
8 10 (2.33%) Okta
8 10 (2.33%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.10%) Citrix
9 9 (2.10%) IBM
10 7 (1.63%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.40%) BeyondTrust
11 6 (1.40%) Centrify
11 6 (1.40%) Salesforce