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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 275 173 256
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.16% 12.89% 13.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.41% 34.39% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 107 188
10th Percentile £290 £356 £321
25th Percentile £378 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £572 £573 £613
90th Percentile £688 £658 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £46.63
Median hourly rate £31.86 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £57.63
90th Percentile - - £60.25
England median hourly rate £45.46 £40.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.00% -12.10% -10.76%

All Cloud 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 716 503 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.47% 37.48% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 334 450
10th Percentile £203 £288 £225
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £17.85 £17.22 £18.95
25th Percentile £23.25 £20.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £29.68 £27.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -12.70% +40.00%
75th Percentile £73.90 £35.13 £48.88
90th Percentile £149.56 £63.56 £56.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +27.27% +22.22%

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 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 0 165 £500 - 143
South Yorkshire +7 80 £497 -9.73% 45
North Yorkshire 0 17 £315 +14.55% 16
East Yorkshire -10 3 £363 +26.09% 21
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 17 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.09%) Confluence
3 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.18%) Apache
4 6 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.45%) CMS
6 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.73%) CICS
7 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.73%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.73%) Magento
4 2 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.36%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.36%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 132 (48.00%) AWS
2 105 (38.18%) GCP
3 48 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (14.91%) Entra ID
6 30 (10.91%) GitHub
7 21 (7.64%) Power Platform
8 20 (7.27%) Azure AKS
9 18 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.82%) SaaS
10 16 (5.82%) Serverless
11 15 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (4.73%) PaaS
13 11 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (4.00%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (2.91%) Azure Functions
15 8 (2.91%) Power Automate
16 7 (2.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.91%) Firewall
2 11 (4.00%) VPN
3 9 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.91%) Network Security
4 8 (2.91%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.91%) WAN
5 7 (2.55%) LAN
6 5 (1.82%) DNS
6 5 (1.82%) HTTP
7 4 (1.45%) DHCP
7 4 (1.45%) VLAN
8 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.09%) SAN
8 3 (1.09%) VoIP
9 2 (0.73%) BGP
9 2 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.73%) OSPF
9 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.73%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.36%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.18%) Power BI
4 14 (5.09%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.64%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.55%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.82%) Redis
8 5 (1.82%) Tableau
9 4 (1.45%) Metadata
9 4 (1.45%) MySQL
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.73%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (13.09%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.55%) JIRA
3 27 (9.82%) Git
4 12 (4.36%) Postman
5 9 (3.27%) Selenium
5 9 (3.27%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.55%) GitLab
7 5 (1.82%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.82%) JUnit
8 4 (1.45%) Mocha
8 4 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.45%) Storybook
8 4 (1.45%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.09%) git-flow
9 3 (1.09%) Maven
9 3 (1.09%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.09%) TestNG
9 3 (1.09%) TestRail
General
1 95 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.18%) Finance
3 36 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.09%) Banking
5 16 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.00%) Legal
7 10 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.27%) Retail
9 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Law
11 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Local Government
12 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Police
12 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (15.64%) Architect
2 34 (12.36%) Developer
3 33 (12.00%) Analyst
4 26 (9.45%) Senior
5 20 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (6.91%) Lead
7 18 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.09%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (5.09%) IT Support
9 13 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (4.73%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.36%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.64%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.64%) Test Analyst
12 9 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.91%) .NET Software Engineer
13 8 (2.91%) Security Architect
13 8 (2.91%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.91%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.18%) RESTful
2 23 (8.36%) Node.js
3 22 (8.00%) React
4 20 (7.27%) .NET
5 17 (6.18%) OAuth
6 16 (5.82%) SAML
7 14 (5.09%) REST
8 13 (4.73%) JSON
9 12 (4.36%) CSS
9 12 (4.36%) HTML
10 10 (3.64%) Kafka
11 9 (3.27%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.27%) Express.js
11 9 (3.27%) OpenID
11 9 (3.27%) PyTorch
11 9 (3.27%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.91%) CSS3
12 8 (2.91%) HTML5
12 8 (2.91%) Next.js
12 8 (2.91%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.09%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.91%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.18%) NHS
3 17 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.36%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.55%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.09%) CMDB
10 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.09%) iPhone
10 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.09%) Replication
11 2 (0.73%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.36%) Windows
2 21 (7.64%) Linux
3 8 (2.91%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.82%) Android
4 5 (1.82%) Unix
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.73%) Solaris
5 2 (0.73%) zOS
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.36%) MVS
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (35.27%) DevOps
2 84 (30.55%) CI/CD
3 69 (25.09%) Agile
4 47 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (13.09%) Microservices
7 35 (12.73%) Containerisation
8 34 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (10.55%) Cloud Security
11 28 (10.18%) DevSecOps
11 28 (10.18%) ITIL
11 28 (10.18%) Migration
12 27 (9.82%) Roadmaps
13 26 (9.45%) Mentoring
14 24 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (8.36%) Test Automation
16 21 (7.64%) AI
16 21 (7.64%) Translating Business Requirements
17 20 (7.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.55%) Python
2 43 (15.64%) SQL
3 29 (10.55%) Java
4 27 (9.82%) PowerShell
5 25 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.27%) C#
7 19 (6.91%) Bash
8 17 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.64%) Bicep
10 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.09%) Rust
10 3 (1.09%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.73%) Groovy
11 2 (0.73%) PHP
11 2 (0.73%) Solidity
11 2 (0.73%) XPath
12 1 (0.36%) ABAP
12 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.36%) C++
12 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (8.36%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.45%) CISSP
2 15 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.36%) CISM
4 11 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.64%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.55%) Degree
7 5 (1.82%) CEH
8 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.09%) CCSK
9 3 (1.09%) CCSP
9 3 (1.09%) GIAC
9 3 (1.09%) GWAPT
9 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.09%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.73%) CCNP
10 2 (0.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.91%) GDPR
2 18 (6.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.73%) NIST
3 13 (4.73%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.73%) QA
4 8 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.82%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.45%) WCAG
8 3 (1.09%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.09%) HL7
8 3 (1.09%) NCSC
8 3 (1.09%) PSD2
9 2 (0.73%) COBIT
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.73%) GRC
9 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (17.82%) Docker
2 40 (14.55%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.09%) KVM
6 3 (1.09%) vSphere
7 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.36%) Ceph
8 1 (0.36%) NFS
8 1 (0.36%) QEMU
8 1 (0.36%) Snort
8 1 (0.36%) SRDF
8 1 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (24.73%) Terraform
2 60 (21.82%) Kubernetes
3 24 (8.73%) Ansible
4 21 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.73%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.91%) Grafana
6 8 (2.91%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.55%) NetBackup
7 7 (2.55%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.73%) Argo
8 2 (0.73%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.73%) Puppet
8 2 (0.73%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) Control-M
9 1 (0.36%) Istio
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Identity Manager
9 1 (0.36%) Podman
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.36%) SCOM
9 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 78 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.73%) Google
3 16 (5.82%) CyberArk
3 16 (5.82%) Databricks
4 15 (5.45%) F5
4 15 (5.45%) Oracle
4 15 (5.45%) SAP
5 14 (5.09%) VMware
6 13 (4.73%) Cisco
7 11 (4.00%) Splunk
8 8 (2.91%) Alibaba
8 8 (2.91%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.91%) Thycotic
9 7 (2.55%) HP
9 7 (2.55%) Veritas
10 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.82%) Apple
11 5 (1.82%) Brio
11 5 (1.82%) MobileIron