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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 378 120 209
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.89% 10.20% 12.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.49% 29.06% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 79 149
10th Percentile £321 £263 £371
25th Percentile £430 £359 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £53.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year +7.48% +45.58% -41.67%

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 1,036 413 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.06% 35.12% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 282 362
10th Percentile £320 £258 £251
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £680 £638 £645
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 9
10th Percentile £18.13 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +10 189 £489 +2.89% 68
South Yorkshire +7 130 £529 +11.37% 32
North Yorkshire +7 26 £450 +44.00% 20
East Yorkshire +2 7 £363 - 9
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 38 (10.05%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.70%) Confluence
2 14 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Acrobat
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (5.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (40.74%) AWS
2 94 (24.87%) GCP
3 67 (17.72%) Entra ID
4 62 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (15.08%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (12.43%) Power Platform
7 46 (12.17%) GitHub
8 39 (10.32%) SaaS
9 37 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (6.88%) Serverless
11 25 (6.61%) PowerApps
12 21 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (5.56%) OneDrive
13 20 (5.29%) PaaS
14 18 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (3.97%) Power Automate
16 14 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (3.70%) Azure Functions
17 13 (3.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (3.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.97%) Firewall
2 14 (3.70%) WAN
3 12 (3.17%) Network Security
4 11 (2.91%) LAN
4 11 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.38%) DNS
5 9 (2.38%) SAN
5 9 (2.38%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.85%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.59%) VPN
7 6 (1.59%) WLAN
8 5 (1.32%) IPsec
8 5 (1.32%) SSL
9 4 (1.06%) Internet
9 4 (1.06%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.06%) VLAN
10 3 (0.79%) BGP
10 3 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.79%) NAS
10 3 (0.79%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.08%) Power BI
3 18 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.12%) Big Data
7 8 (2.12%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.12%) Metadata
8 7 (1.85%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.79%) Parquet
11 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.26%) Redis
13 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 37 (9.79%) JIRA
3 22 (5.82%) Git
4 21 (5.56%) GitLab
5 14 (3.70%) Gatling
6 7 (1.85%) Maven
7 6 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.32%) JMeter
8 5 (1.32%) Postman
8 5 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.32%) Selenium
9 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.06%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.06%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.26%) Newman
12 1 (0.26%) TestNG
General
1 102 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 85 (22.49%) Finance
3 32 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.67%) Banking
4 29 (7.67%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.61%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (3.70%) Publishing
7 10 (2.65%) Law
8 8 (2.12%) Legal
9 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.32%) Social Science
11 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.06%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (17.72%) Architect
2 50 (13.23%) Senior
3 42 (11.11%) Lead
4 35 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (8.47%) Developer
6 25 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.29%) Analyst
9 18 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.44%) Administrator
14 12 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.91%) Consultant
16 10 (2.65%) Data Analyst
16 10 (2.65%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.73%) REST
2 24 (6.35%) OpenID
3 17 (4.50%) OAuth
4 15 (3.97%) .NET
5 14 (3.70%) LDAP
5 14 (3.70%) Playwright
5 14 (3.70%) SAML
5 14 (3.70%) SAP Basis
6 12 (3.17%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (3.17%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.17%) Web Services
7 11 (2.91%) PySpark
8 10 (2.65%) SailPoint
9 9 (2.38%) Middleware
9 9 (2.38%) React
9 9 (2.38%) SOAP
10 8 (2.12%) Kafka
11 7 (1.85%) JSON
11 7 (1.85%) RESTful
12 6 (1.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.35%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.97%) Taxonomies
6 14 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.85%) NHS
9 7 (1.85%) Replication
9 7 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.32%) CMDB
11 5 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.32%) FlexPod
12 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (11.64%) Windows
2 24 (6.35%) Linux
3 10 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.12%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.59%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.59%) VMS
6 4 (1.06%) Android
6 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.06%) Unix
7 3 (0.79%) AIX
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (40.48%) DevOps
2 140 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 88 (23.28%) Agile
4 66 (17.46%) Roadmaps
5 61 (16.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (13.76%) Migration
7 49 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (11.90%) Observability
9 45 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (10.85%) AI
11 41 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 39 (10.32%) Analytics
12 39 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (10.05%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (10.05%) Identity Access Management
14 35 (9.26%) Containerisation
15 34 (8.99%) Data Governance
16 32 (8.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.96%) Python
2 54 (14.29%) SQL
3 49 (12.96%) Java
4 37 (9.79%) PowerShell
5 19 (5.03%) C#
6 18 (4.76%) Bash
7 15 (3.97%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.70%) Scala
9 8 (2.12%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.85%) Bicep
11 5 (1.32%) Go
11 5 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.06%) Cypher
13 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Groovy
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.47%) Degree
3 30 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.12%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.85%) CISSP
7 6 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.59%) CISM
7 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.59%) PMP
8 5 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.32%) OCP
8 5 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.06%) CCSP
9 4 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.79%) NCDA
10 3 (0.79%) NCIE
10 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.70%) QA
2 12 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.38%) NIST
5 8 (2.12%) GDPR
6 7 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.85%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (1.32%) GRC
8 5 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.32%) WCAG
9 4 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.06%) SLA
10 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (11.64%) Active Directory
2 34 (8.99%) Docker
3 17 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.12%) NFS
5 8 (2.12%) vSphere
6 6 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.32%) RACF
8 4 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.79%) SRDF
9 3 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (22.22%) Terraform
2 62 (16.40%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (6.61%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (6.08%) Ansible
6 13 (3.44%) Grafana
7 11 (2.91%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (2.38%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.12%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.06%) Istio
11 4 (1.06%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.79%) Argo
12 3 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.53%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.53%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 134 (35.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.99%) Google
3 28 (7.41%) Databricks
4 27 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 26 (6.88%) SAP
6 21 (5.56%) Okta
7 14 (3.70%) Oracle
7 14 (3.70%) VMware
8 11 (2.91%) Foundry
8 11 (2.91%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.12%) Cisco
9 8 (2.12%) NetApp
9 8 (2.12%) OpenAI
9 8 (2.12%) Splunk
10 7 (1.85%) Aruba
10 7 (1.85%) Veeam
11 6 (1.59%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.32%) Adobe
12 5 (1.32%) IBM
12 5 (1.32%) Salesforce