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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 422 181 199
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.79% 11.88% 13.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.93% 32.09% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 113 139
10th Percentile £333 £313 £373
25th Percentile £413 £378 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -7.82%
75th Percentile £595 £544 £608
90th Percentile £692 £632 £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 £34.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.41% -11.69% -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 1,031 564 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.14% 37.01% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 382 362
10th Percentile £305 £250 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £572
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 6
10th Percentile £13.45 - £16.88
25th Percentile £14.97 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £22.00
90th Percentile £38.38 - £25.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +2 200 £488 -2.50% 253
South Yorkshire +6 161 £519 +15.33% 91
North Yorkshire +9 33 £488 +77.27% 60
East Yorkshire -3 2 £313 - 18
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 (10.19%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.40%) Confluence
3 18 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.32%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.42%) Apache
6 4 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.95%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 176 (41.71%) AWS
2 120 (28.44%) GCP
3 72 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (16.59%) GitHub
5 64 (15.17%) Power Platform
6 62 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (13.98%) Entra ID
8 45 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (5.92%) Microsoft Copilot
9 25 (5.92%) PowerApps
10 21 (4.98%) OneDrive
11 19 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (4.27%) Serverless
13 15 (3.55%) Copilot Studio
14 14 (3.32%) SaaS
15 13 (3.08%) Azure AI
16 12 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.84%) Power Automate
17 10 (2.37%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.64%) DNS
1 28 (6.64%) Firewall
2 19 (4.50%) Network Security
3 16 (3.79%) VPN
4 14 (3.32%) LAN
4 14 (3.32%) VLAN
4 14 (3.32%) WAN
5 13 (3.08%) DHCP
6 12 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (2.84%) WLAN
7 10 (2.37%) BGP
7 10 (2.37%) OSPF
8 7 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (1.66%) SAN
8 7 (1.66%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.42%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.42%) NAS
9 6 (1.42%) Wireless
10 5 (1.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.29%) Power BI
1 35 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (4.27%) Metadata
4 15 (3.55%) Big Data
5 12 (2.84%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.42%) Delta Lake
7 6 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.18%) Neo4j
8 5 (1.18%) Redis
8 5 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.95%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.95%) Tableau
9 4 (0.95%) Trino
10 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.71%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 57 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 48 (11.37%) JIRA
3 28 (6.64%) Git
4 17 (4.03%) GitLab
5 12 (2.84%) Gatling
6 8 (1.90%) Maven
6 8 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.42%) JMeter
7 6 (1.42%) Selenium
8 5 (1.18%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.95%) Postman
10 3 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.71%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.71%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.47%) JUnit
11 2 (0.47%) MSBuild
General
1 116 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 113 (26.78%) Finance
3 34 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.35%) Banking
6 13 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.08%) Law
7 11 (2.61%) Retail
8 10 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.42%) Legal
10 6 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.42%) Social Science
11 4 (0.95%) Military
12 3 (0.71%) Police
13 2 (0.47%) Billing
13 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (16.35%) Architect
2 58 (13.74%) Senior
3 52 (12.32%) Lead
4 36 (8.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (7.82%) Data Engineer
6 31 (7.35%) Developer
7 26 (6.16%) Analyst
8 24 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.79%) Technical Architect
12 15 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
14 13 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (3.08%) Consultant
14 13 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.84%) 2nd Line Support
16 11 (2.61%) Data Analyst
16 11 (2.61%) Security Engineer
17 10 (2.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (24.88%) Terraform
2 38 (9.00%) REST
3 26 (6.16%) Kafka
4 21 (4.98%) .NET
5 17 (4.03%) React
6 14 (3.32%) OAuth
6 14 (3.32%) Playwright
7 12 (2.84%) SailPoint
8 11 (2.61%) .NET Core
8 11 (2.61%) ASP.NET
8 11 (2.61%) JSON
8 11 (2.61%) OpenID
8 11 (2.61%) PySpark
9 10 (2.37%) SOAP
9 10 (2.37%) Web Services
10 9 (2.13%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.13%) SAML
11 8 (1.90%) LDAP
11 8 (1.90%) Spring
11 8 (1.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.40%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.11%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.92%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.74%) AI Agents
5 20 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (4.03%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.13%) PKI
12 7 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.66%) Replication
13 6 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.42%) NHS
14 4 (0.95%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.56%) Windows
2 29 (6.87%) Linux
3 25 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.42%) Android
4 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) AIX
5 3 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.71%) Unix
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (40.28%) CI/CD
2 154 (36.49%) DevOps
3 96 (22.75%) Agile
4 95 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (18.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (17.77%) AI
7 68 (16.11%) Observability
8 66 (15.64%) Cybersecurity
9 62 (14.69%) Roadmaps
10 61 (14.45%) Analytics
11 54 (12.80%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (11.85%) Migration
14 47 (11.14%) Data Engineering
14 47 (11.14%) Test Automation
15 46 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
15 46 (10.90%) Software Engineering
16 45 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 44 (10.43%) DevSecOps
18 41 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 97 (22.99%) Python
2 55 (13.03%) Java
3 53 (12.56%) SQL
4 49 (11.61%) PowerShell
5 20 (4.74%) C#
6 18 (4.27%) Bash
7 16 (3.79%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.32%) Bicep
9 10 (2.37%) Scala
10 9 (2.13%) Groovy
10 9 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.95%) ABAP
12 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.47%) Go
14 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.24%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 64 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 45 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.21%) Degree
4 19 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.32%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.61%) CISSP
8 9 (2.13%) CISM
9 8 (1.90%) CCNP
10 7 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.66%) CCSP
10 7 (1.66%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.42%) CCSK
12 5 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.18%) PMP
13 3 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.98%) QA
3 12 (2.84%) GDPR
4 11 (2.61%) NIST
5 9 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (1.66%) WCAG
8 6 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.95%) GRC
9 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.71%) GxP
10 3 (0.71%) PMO
10 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.47%) IASME
11 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (15.40%) Active Directory
2 56 (13.27%) Docker
3 12 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.71%) Firmware
7 3 (0.71%) NFS
7 3 (0.71%) SRDF
8 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.24%) Ceph
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 92 (21.80%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.87%) Ansible
3 28 (6.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (4.98%) Grafana
5 18 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.13%) HAProxy
9 7 (1.66%) Kustomize
10 5 (1.18%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.71%) Argo
12 3 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.71%) Packer
12 3 (0.71%) SnapMirror
12 3 (0.71%) vMotion
13 2 (0.47%) Podman
13 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.47%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 149 (35.31%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.66%) Databricks
3 25 (5.92%) Google
3 25 (5.92%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.27%) CyberArk
5 17 (4.03%) Cisco
6 16 (3.79%) Foundry
6 16 (3.79%) SAP
7 13 (3.08%) Splunk
8 11 (2.61%) VMware
9 10 (2.37%) Oracle
10 9 (2.13%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.13%) IBM
11 8 (1.90%) Okta
11 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.66%) Centrify
12 7 (1.66%) Citrix
12 7 (1.66%) Dell
12 7 (1.66%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.66%) Red Hat