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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 430 195 200
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.78% 12.52% 13.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.27% 33.68% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 116 138
10th Percentile £344 £314 £350
25th Percentile £413 £396 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £506
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.14% -8.00%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £46.88 - -
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 1,042 579 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.81% 37.16% 35.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 385 361
10th Percentile £305 £235 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £602 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.69 - £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 - - £26.05
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 0 200 £488 -2.50% 265
South Yorkshire +5 172 £518 +8.95% 109
North Yorkshire +7 30 £460 +143.71% 63
East Yorkshire -2 3 £338 - 23
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 42 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.28%) Confluence
3 17 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (3.49%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.63%) Apache
6 6 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.16%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.09%) 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 (42.09%) AWS
2 126 (29.30%) GCP
3 75 (17.44%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (16.28%) GitHub
5 66 (15.35%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (15.12%) Entra ID
7 64 (14.88%) Power Platform
8 43 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (6.28%) Microsoft Copilot
10 24 (5.58%) PowerApps
11 21 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (4.65%) OneDrive
13 17 (3.95%) Serverless
14 16 (3.72%) Copilot Studio
15 15 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (3.26%) Azure AI
16 14 (3.26%) SaaS
17 12 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (2.79%) Power Automate
18 11 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.21%) Firewall
2 28 (6.51%) DNS
3 20 (4.65%) Network Security
4 17 (3.95%) VPN
5 15 (3.49%) VLAN
6 13 (3.02%) DHCP
6 13 (3.02%) LAN
6 13 (3.02%) WAN
7 12 (2.79%) WLAN
8 11 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (2.33%) BGP
9 10 (2.33%) OSPF
10 9 (2.09%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (1.63%) SAN
12 6 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (1.40%) NAS
12 6 (1.40%) Wireless
13 5 (1.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.91%) Power BI
2 32 (7.44%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.19%) Big Data
3 18 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.95%) Metadata
5 15 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.26%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.86%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.16%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.16%) Redis
9 5 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (1.16%) Tableau
9 5 (1.16%) Trino
10 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.70%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 53 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.40%) JIRA
3 33 (7.67%) Git
4 16 (3.72%) GitLab
5 9 (2.09%) Gatling
6 8 (1.86%) JMeter
6 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.40%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.40%) Selenium
8 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.16%) Maven
8 5 (1.16%) Postman
9 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.70%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.47%) eggPlant
General
1 127 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.44%) Finance
3 39 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.14%) Banking
5 31 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.02%) Law
7 11 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.56%) Retail
8 10 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.09%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.40%) Social Science
11 5 (1.16%) Legal
12 4 (0.93%) Military
13 3 (0.70%) Police
14 2 (0.47%) Billing
14 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (16.05%) Architect
2 62 (14.42%) Senior
3 55 (12.79%) Lead
4 37 (8.60%) Developer
5 36 (8.37%) Data Engineer
6 35 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.58%) Analyst
8 23 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (3.49%) Technical Architect
11 14 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (3.02%) Consultant
12 13 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.79%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (2.79%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (25.35%) Terraform
2 42 (9.77%) REST
3 27 (6.28%) Kafka
4 24 (5.58%) React
5 22 (5.12%) .NET
6 20 (4.65%) OAuth
7 16 (3.72%) OpenID
8 14 (3.26%) OAuth2
9 13 (3.02%) ASP.NET
9 13 (3.02%) PySpark
9 13 (3.02%) SailPoint
9 13 (3.02%) SAML
10 12 (2.79%) .NET Core
11 11 (2.56%) JSON
11 11 (2.56%) Middleware
11 11 (2.56%) Playwright
12 10 (2.33%) RESTful
12 10 (2.33%) SOAP
12 10 (2.33%) Web Services
13 9 (2.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.67%) Data Centre
3 27 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (5.12%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.88%) AI Agents
6 20 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.33%) PKI
10 9 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.63%) Replication
12 6 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.40%) NHS
13 5 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.79%) Windows
2 30 (6.98%) Linux
3 28 (6.51%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.40%) Android
4 6 (1.40%) 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 (0.47%) 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
1 181 (42.09%) CI/CD
2 162 (37.67%) DevOps
3 104 (24.19%) Agile
4 102 (23.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (19.30%) AI
5 83 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (17.67%) Observability
7 70 (16.28%) Cybersecurity
8 65 (15.12%) Analytics
9 58 (13.49%) Roadmaps
10 56 (13.02%) Test Automation
11 54 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (11.63%) Data Engineering
12 50 (11.63%) Migration
12 50 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (11.40%) Software Engineering
14 47 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
15 45 (10.47%) Validation
16 44 (10.23%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 103 (23.95%) Python
2 57 (13.26%) SQL
3 53 (12.33%) Java
4 51 (11.86%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.58%) C#
6 21 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.19%) Bash
8 15 (3.49%) Bicep
9 13 (3.02%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.09%) Groovy
10 9 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.63%) Go
12 6 (1.40%) Scala
13 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
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 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.23%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 58 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.28%) Degree
4 18 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.56%) CISSP
8 9 (2.09%) CISM
8 9 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.86%) CCNP
10 7 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.63%) CCSP
10 7 (1.63%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.63%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.63%) PMP
11 6 (1.40%) CCSK
12 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.81%) QA
3 13 (3.02%) GDPR
3 13 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.56%) NIST
5 9 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.86%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (1.63%) WCAG
8 6 (1.40%) GRC
8 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.70%) GxP
10 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (16.05%) Active Directory
2 53 (12.33%) Docker
3 13 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.63%) vSphere
8 5 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.70%) Firmware
9 3 (0.70%) NFS
9 3 (0.70%) SRDF
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.23%) Ceph
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 92 (21.40%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.21%) Ansible
2 31 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (4.65%) Grafana
4 16 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.79%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.63%) Kustomize
8 6 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.16%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.70%) Argo
11 3 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.70%) Packer
11 3 (0.70%) SCCM
11 3 (0.70%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.70%) vMotion
12 2 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 149 (34.65%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.63%) Databricks
3 31 (7.21%) ServiceNow
4 28 (6.51%) Google
5 19 (4.42%) CyberArk
6 18 (4.19%) Foundry
7 17 (3.95%) Cisco
8 15 (3.49%) SAP
9 14 (3.26%) VMware
10 13 (3.02%) Splunk
11 12 (2.79%) Dynatrace
12 11 (2.56%) Okta
13 10 (2.33%) IBM
14 9 (2.09%) OpenAI
14 9 (2.09%) Oracle
15 8 (1.86%) Citrix
16 7 (1.63%) CheckPoint
16 7 (1.63%) Dell
16 7 (1.63%) Red Hat
16 7 (1.63%) Salesforce