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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 422 176 189
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.74% 11.54% 12.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.27% 31.88% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 111 133
10th Percentile £331 £313 £400
25th Percentile £413 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% -8.18%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £614
90th Percentile £691 £600 £654
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £19.63 - -
Median hourly rate £45.75 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year +52.82% +2.83% -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 1,048 552 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.62% 36.20% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 384 342
10th Percentile £306 £263 £288
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £669 £600 £655
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 5
10th Percentile £15.85 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.83% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £51.88 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +5 208 £480 -2.04% 104
South Yorkshire +13 151 £518 +15.77% 47
North Yorkshire +10 34 £488 +77.27% 27
East Yorkshire -2 5 £313 - 15
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 45 (10.66%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.40%) Confluence
3 20 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.84%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.18%) Apache
6 4 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.95%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 168 (39.81%) AWS
2 112 (26.54%) GCP
3 74 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (15.88%) GitHub
5 64 (15.17%) Power Platform
6 62 (14.69%) Entra ID
7 58 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (6.40%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (4.98%) OneDrive
12 19 (4.50%) SaaS
13 18 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (3.55%) Copilot Studio
15 15 (3.55%) Serverless
16 13 (3.08%) Azure AI
16 13 (3.08%) Power Automate
17 12 (2.84%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.69%) Firewall
2 22 (5.21%) DNS
3 17 (4.03%) Network Security
4 15 (3.55%) VPN
5 14 (3.32%) LAN
5 14 (3.32%) WAN
6 13 (3.08%) VLAN
7 12 (2.84%) DHCP
7 12 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (2.84%) WLAN
8 10 (2.37%) BGP
8 10 (2.37%) OSPF
9 9 (2.13%) SAN
10 7 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (1.66%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.42%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (1.42%) Wireless
12 5 (1.18%) IPsec
12 5 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 33 (7.82%) Power BI
3 20 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.03%) Metadata
5 16 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.32%) Big Data
7 10 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.37%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.66%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.18%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.18%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (1.18%) Tableau
11 4 (0.95%) Redis
11 4 (0.95%) Trino
12 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.71%) Parquet
12 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 56 (13.27%) Jenkins
2 48 (11.37%) JIRA
3 28 (6.64%) Git
4 15 (3.55%) GitLab
5 12 (2.84%) Gatling
6 7 (1.66%) Maven
6 7 (1.66%) 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
1 114 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.75%) Finance
3 36 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.11%) Banking
6 17 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.32%) Law
8 9 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.90%) Retail
10 6 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.42%) Social Science
11 5 (1.18%) Legal
11 5 (1.18%) Publishing
12 4 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Police
14 2 (0.47%) Billing
14 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (15.88%) Architect
2 55 (13.03%) Senior
3 54 (12.80%) Lead
4 37 (8.77%) Developer
5 34 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (7.82%) Data Engineer
7 25 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (5.45%) Analyst
9 22 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.32%) Consultant
13 13 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.08%) Technical Architect
14 12 (2.84%) 2nd Line Support
15 10 (2.37%) .NET Developer
15 10 (2.37%) Administrator
15 10 (2.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.37%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (22.27%) Terraform
2 40 (9.48%) REST
3 25 (5.92%) .NET
4 20 (4.74%) Kafka
5 16 (3.79%) React
6 14 (3.32%) Playwright
7 13 (3.08%) Web Services
8 12 (2.84%) OAuth
8 12 (2.84%) PySpark
8 12 (2.84%) SailPoint
8 12 (2.84%) SOAP
9 11 (2.61%) .NET Core
9 11 (2.61%) ASP.NET
9 11 (2.61%) JSON
10 10 (2.37%) OpenID
11 9 (2.13%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.13%) SAP Basis
12 8 (1.90%) LDAP
12 8 (1.90%) SAML
13 7 (1.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.11%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.21%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.32%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.84%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.66%) PKI
12 7 (1.66%) Replication
12 7 (1.66%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.42%) NHS
14 5 (1.18%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.32%) Windows
2 27 (6.40%) Linux
3 25 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.42%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.18%) Android
5 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.95%) CoreOS
6 4 (0.95%) VMS
7 3 (0.71%) AIX
7 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.47%) Unix
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (37.68%) CI/CD
2 148 (35.07%) DevOps
3 93 (22.04%) Agile
4 83 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 65 (15.40%) AI
7 61 (14.45%) Roadmaps
8 60 (14.22%) Observability
9 57 (13.51%) Analytics
10 53 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
11 52 (12.32%) Migration
12 51 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 45 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
16 44 (10.43%) Data Engineering
17 41 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (9.72%) Test Automation
18 39 (9.24%) Software Engineering
19 38 (9.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 91 (21.56%) Python
2 57 (13.51%) SQL
3 50 (11.85%) Java
4 43 (10.19%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.69%) C#
6 18 (4.27%) Bash
7 17 (4.03%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.37%) Bicep
8 10 (2.37%) Groovy
8 10 (2.37%) Scala
9 9 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.18%) ABAP
12 5 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.71%) Go
13 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.24%) Cypher
14 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 66 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 45 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.69%) Degree
4 16 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.90%) CCNP
8 8 (1.90%) CISSP
9 7 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.42%) CISM
11 5 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.18%) CCSP
11 5 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.95%) CCSK
12 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.95%) PMP
13 3 (0.71%) OCP
13 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.98%) QA
3 11 (2.61%) NIST
4 10 (2.37%) GDPR
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 5 (1.18%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.47%) IASME
11 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
12 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (14.69%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.51%) Docker
3 14 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.90%) vSphere
7 6 (1.42%) NFS
8 5 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.71%) SRDF
10 2 (0.47%) Firmware
11 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.24%) Ceph
11 1 (0.24%) KVM
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 90 (21.33%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.11%) Ansible
3 29 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.50%) Grafana
5 15 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
7 11 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.13%) HAProxy
9 6 (1.42%) Kustomize
9 6 (1.42%) SnapMirror
10 4 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.71%) Argo
11 3 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.47%) Podman
12 2 (0.47%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.47%) vMotion
Vendors
1 150 (35.55%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.95%) Databricks
3 26 (6.16%) Google
4 21 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.27%) CyberArk
5 18 (4.27%) SAP
6 16 (3.79%) Cisco
6 16 (3.79%) Foundry
7 15 (3.55%) VMware
8 11 (2.61%) IBM
8 11 (2.61%) Okta
8 11 (2.61%) Oracle
8 11 (2.61%) Splunk
9 10 (2.37%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.66%) Centrify
10 7 (1.66%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.66%) Citrix
10 7 (1.66%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.66%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.42%) BeyondTrust