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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 308 138 232
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.32% 14.70% 12.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.07% 38.33% 40.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 94 158
10th Percentile £218 £283 £253
25th Percentile £400 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £570 £548 £600
90th Percentile £688 £618 £700
England median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.71% -4.55% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £43.45 - -
25th Percentile £54.25 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £62.00
75th Percentile £60.69 - -
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +64.29% -24.21% -14.76%

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 854 360 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.47% 38.34% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 242 415
10th Percentile £223 £275 £228
25th Percentile £400 £405 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £595
90th Percentile £625 £699 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -7.29%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -1 161 £488 +2.63% 79
South Yorkshire -1 102 £518 -0.48% 38
North Yorkshire -2 19 £450 +63.64% 17
East Yorkshire - 10 £325 - 12
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 22 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.17%) Confluence
3 11 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.30%) CMS
5 3 (0.97%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.62%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (6.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.97%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.32%) Magento
6 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 149 (48.38%) AWS
2 120 (38.96%) GCP
3 59 (19.16%) Entra ID
4 45 (14.61%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (12.34%) SaaS
6 36 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (10.71%) GitHub
8 23 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (6.82%) Serverless
10 19 (6.17%) Power Platform
11 17 (5.52%) Azure AKS
12 15 (4.87%) OneDrive
13 14 (4.55%) OpenShift
14 13 (4.22%) PaaS
15 10 (3.25%) Azure Functions
15 10 (3.25%) Azure Storage
16 9 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (2.92%) IaaS
17 7 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.42%) Firewall
2 17 (5.52%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.22%) DNS
3 13 (4.22%) WAN
3 13 (4.22%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (3.90%) LAN
5 9 (2.92%) Network Security
6 8 (2.60%) Kerberos
7 7 (2.27%) VPN
8 6 (1.95%) SSL
9 5 (1.62%) HTTP
9 5 (1.62%) IPsec
10 4 (1.30%) DHCP
10 4 (1.30%) VLAN
10 4 (1.30%) VoIP
11 3 (0.97%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.65%) BGP
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.65%) OSPF
12 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.52%) Power BI
3 15 (4.87%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.95%) MySQL
6 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.62%) Redis
8 4 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.30%) Metadata
8 4 (1.30%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.97%) Tableau
10 2 (0.65%) DataStage
10 2 (0.65%) DB2
10 2 (0.65%) GIS
10 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 52 (16.88%) Jenkins
2 42 (13.64%) JIRA
3 27 (8.77%) Git
3 27 (8.77%) GitLab
4 17 (5.52%) Selenium
5 14 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 14 (4.55%) Postman
6 12 (3.90%) REST Assured
7 8 (2.60%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.60%) TestRail
8 5 (1.62%) JMeter
8 5 (1.62%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.30%) Gatling
9 4 (1.30%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.30%) Maven
9 4 (1.30%) Mocha
9 4 (1.30%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.30%) Storybook
10 3 (0.97%) JUnit
11 2 (0.65%) MSI
General
1 115 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.23%) Finance
3 35 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.71%) Banking
5 26 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.57%) Legal
8 10 (3.25%) Publishing
9 7 (2.27%) Retail
10 6 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.62%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.62%) Law
11 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.65%) Local Government
13 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (15.91%) Architect
2 42 (13.64%) Senior
3 28 (9.09%) Lead
4 27 (8.77%) Developer
5 19 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.87%) Analyst
6 15 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (4.22%) IT Support
9 12 (3.90%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.25%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.25%) Senior Architect
11 9 (2.92%) Test Automation Engineer
11 9 (2.92%) Test Engineer
12 8 (2.60%) Administrator
12 8 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.60%) Consultant
12 8 (2.60%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.60%) Tester
13 7 (2.27%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.36%) REST
2 27 (8.77%) OpenID
3 25 (8.12%) React
4 24 (7.79%) LDAP
5 23 (7.47%) RESTful
6 21 (6.82%) .NET
6 21 (6.82%) Node.js
7 20 (6.49%) OAuth
8 18 (5.84%) SailPoint
9 17 (5.52%) SAML
10 13 (4.22%) CSS
10 13 (4.22%) HTML
11 12 (3.90%) SAP Basis
12 10 (3.25%) Kafka
13 9 (2.92%) JWT
14 8 (2.60%) FHIR
14 8 (2.60%) Middleware
14 8 (2.60%) Spring Boot
15 7 (2.27%) Express.js
15 7 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.06%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.19%) NHS
5 15 (4.87%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.22%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.57%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.60%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.27%) CMDB
10 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.95%) IoT
11 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.97%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.31%) Windows
2 26 (8.44%) Linux
3 9 (2.92%) Unix
4 5 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.97%) Android
7 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.65%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (36.69%) DevOps
2 110 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 76 (24.68%) Agile
4 54 (17.53%) Containerisation
5 53 (17.21%) Roadmaps
6 49 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (13.64%) Microservices
9 41 (13.31%) Cybersecurity
10 40 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (12.34%) Migration
12 36 (11.69%) Test Automation
13 34 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (10.39%) ITIL
15 29 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (9.09%) Mentoring
17 27 (8.77%) Data Governance
18 26 (8.44%) DevSecOps
18 26 (8.44%) Identity Access Management
19 25 (8.12%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.32%) Python
2 60 (19.48%) SQL
3 42 (13.64%) Java
4 35 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 28 (9.09%) Bash
5 28 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.84%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.19%) C#
8 9 (2.92%) PHP
9 7 (2.27%) Bicep
10 6 (1.95%) Go
11 5 (1.62%) Groovy
12 4 (1.30%) Cypher
12 4 (1.30%) Scala
13 3 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.97%) Rust
13 3 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.65%) Solidity
14 2 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (6.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.52%) Degree
3 10 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (2.27%) CISSP
5 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.62%) CEH
7 4 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.30%) CISM
7 4 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.97%) CCSK
8 3 (0.97%) CCSP
8 3 (0.97%) GIAC
8 3 (0.97%) GWAPT
8 3 (0.97%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CCNP
9 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.17%) QA
2 16 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.57%) GDPR
4 8 (2.60%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.95%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.95%) HL7
6 6 (1.95%) NIST
7 5 (1.62%) SLA
8 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.30%) WCAG
9 3 (0.97%) GRC
9 3 (0.97%) PSD2
9 3 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.65%) COBIT
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (16.23%) Docker
2 36 (11.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.30%) RACF
7 3 (0.97%) vSphere
8 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.32%) Ceph
9 1 (0.32%) KVM
9 1 (0.32%) NFS
9 1 (0.32%) QEMU
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.32%) XenApp
9 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (20.78%) Kubernetes
2 58 (18.83%) Terraform
3 29 (9.42%) Ansible
4 25 (8.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (7.79%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (5.19%) Grafana
7 10 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.95%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.95%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.30%) Istio
10 2 (0.65%) Argo
10 2 (0.65%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.32%) Kibana
11 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.32%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) Podman
11 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 75 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.04%) Google
3 30 (9.74%) SAP
4 27 (8.77%) ServiceNow
5 20 (6.49%) Oracle
6 17 (5.52%) Splunk
7 16 (5.19%) Okta
8 13 (4.22%) F5
8 13 (4.22%) VMware
9 10 (3.25%) Cisco
10 8 (2.60%) OpenAI
11 7 (2.27%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.27%) Databricks
11 7 (2.27%) HP
12 6 (1.95%) Adobe
12 6 (1.95%) ESRI
12 6 (1.95%) Meraki
12 6 (1.95%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.95%) Veeam
12 6 (1.95%) Veritas