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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 301 145 239
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.95% 13.12% 13.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.69% 34.77% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 96 166
10th Percentile £290 £306 £263
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £600
90th Percentile £681 £659 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £39.31 - -
25th Percentile £49.63 - -
Median hourly rate £55.75 - £62.00
75th Percentile £57.44 - -
90th Percentile £64.60 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +31.43% -24.21% -9.45%

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 778 417 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.23% 37.74% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 277 418
10th Percentile £222 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £617 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile - £18.04 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.81 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +71.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £97.98 £41.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%

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 31 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 +1 159 £500 +2.56% 558
South Yorkshire +8 104 £484 -8.56% 322
North Yorkshire -1 17 £413 +50.00% 154
East Yorkshire - 9 £325 - 162
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 19 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.65%) Confluence
3 10 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.66%) Apache
4 5 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.33%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) CICS
6 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.00%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.00%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.33%) Magento
6 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.33%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 153 (50.83%) AWS
2 120 (39.87%) GCP
3 43 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 37 (12.29%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (11.30%) GitHub
6 24 (7.97%) SaaS
7 20 (6.64%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (5.65%) Serverless
10 14 (4.65%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.65%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.99%) PaaS
12 11 (3.65%) OneDrive
13 10 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (2.99%) Azure Functions
14 9 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.33%) Power Automate
16 6 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (1.99%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.96%) Firewall
2 15 (4.98%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.99%) DNS
4 10 (3.32%) WAN
5 9 (2.99%) LAN
5 9 (2.99%) Network Security
5 9 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.66%) VPN
7 6 (1.99%) HTTP
8 5 (1.66%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.33%) DHCP
9 4 (1.33%) VLAN
10 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
10 3 (1.00%) SSL
10 3 (1.00%) VoIP
11 2 (0.66%) BGP
11 2 (0.66%) IPsec
11 2 (0.66%) OSPF
11 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.64%) NoSQL
1 20 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
1 20 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.31%) Power BI
3 8 (2.66%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.33%) MySQL
5 6 (1.99%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.66%) Metadata
6 5 (1.66%) Redis
6 5 (1.66%) Tableau
7 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.66%) DataStage
9 2 (0.66%) DB2
9 2 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.66%) GIS
Development Applications
1 47 (15.61%) Jenkins
2 43 (14.29%) JIRA
3 29 (9.63%) Git
4 21 (6.98%) GitLab
5 18 (5.98%) Postman
6 16 (5.32%) Selenium
7 10 (3.32%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.32%) SoapUI
8 9 (2.99%) CircleCI
9 8 (2.66%) REST Assured
9 8 (2.66%) TestRail
10 6 (1.99%) JUnit
11 5 (1.66%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.33%) Maven
12 4 (1.33%) Mocha
12 4 (1.33%) Storybook
13 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.00%) TestNG
14 2 (0.66%) git-flow
14 2 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 111 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.95%) Finance
3 41 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.96%) Banking
5 21 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.65%) Legal
7 7 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Retail
8 6 (1.99%) Law
9 5 (1.66%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.66%) Publishing
10 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Local Government
12 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Police
12 2 (0.66%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (13.29%) Architect
2 34 (11.30%) Developer
3 31 (10.30%) Senior
4 26 (8.64%) Lead
5 22 (7.31%) Analyst
6 21 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.98%) Software Engineer
9 14 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
10 13 (4.32%) IT Support
11 9 (2.99%) .NET Software Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) Consultant
11 9 (2.99%) Data Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) Test Analyst
12 8 (2.66%) Security Architect
12 8 (2.66%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.97%) React
1 27 (8.97%) RESTful
2 26 (8.64%) .NET
3 24 (7.97%) REST
4 22 (7.31%) Node.js
5 18 (5.98%) LDAP
6 15 (4.98%) CSS
6 15 (4.98%) HTML
6 15 (4.98%) OAuth
7 14 (4.65%) OpenID
8 12 (3.99%) SAML
9 10 (3.32%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.32%) SailPoint
10 9 (2.99%) Express.js
10 9 (2.99%) FHIR
10 9 (2.99%) Kafka
10 9 (2.99%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.99%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.66%) HTML5
11 8 (2.66%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 27 (8.97%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.64%) NHS
4 19 (6.31%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.32%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.66%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.66%) CMDB
9 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.33%) IoT
10 4 (1.33%) Replication
11 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.00%) iPhone
11 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.62%) Windows
2 29 (9.63%) Linux
3 9 (2.99%) Unix
4 5 (1.66%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.00%) Android
6 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.66%) Solaris
6 2 (0.66%) VMS
6 2 (0.66%) zOS
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.33%) MVS
7 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (35.22%) DevOps
2 103 (34.22%) CI/CD
3 74 (24.58%) Agile
4 51 (16.94%) Containerisation
5 47 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.28%) Roadmaps
7 43 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (12.96%) Microservices
9 36 (11.96%) Migration
10 35 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (11.30%) DevSecOps
12 33 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (10.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (10.30%) ITIL
15 30 (9.97%) Test Automation
16 29 (9.63%) Cloud Security
16 29 (9.63%) Mentoring
17 25 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 24 (7.97%) Clean Code
19 23 (7.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (24.92%) Python
2 55 (18.27%) SQL
3 41 (13.62%) Java
4 29 (9.63%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 25 (8.31%) Bash
7 22 (7.31%) C#
8 18 (5.98%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.32%) PHP
10 8 (2.66%) Bicep
11 4 (1.33%) Go
11 4 (1.33%) Groovy
12 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.00%) Rust
12 3 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.66%) Solidity
13 2 (0.66%) XPath
14 1 (0.33%) VB
14 1 (0.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 15 (4.98%) CISSP
3 13 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.99%) CISM
5 11 (3.65%) Degree
5 11 (3.65%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.66%) CEH
9 4 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.00%) CCSK
10 3 (1.00%) CCSP
10 3 (1.00%) GIAC
10 3 (1.00%) GWAPT
10 3 (1.00%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.66%) CCNA
11 2 (0.66%) CCNP
11 2 (0.66%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.98%) QA
2 20 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.32%) GDPR
4 14 (4.65%) PCI DSS
5 13 (4.32%) NIST
6 8 (2.66%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.99%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.99%) HL7
7 6 (1.99%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.66%) SLA
9 4 (1.33%) WCAG
10 3 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.00%) PSD2
11 2 (0.66%) COBIT
11 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.66%) GRC
11 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.33%) NCSC
12 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (18.94%) Docker
2 35 (11.63%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.00%) KVM
6 3 (1.00%) vSphere
7 2 (0.66%) NFS
7 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.33%) Ceph
8 1 (0.33%) QEMU
8 1 (0.33%) RACF
8 1 (0.33%) Snort
8 1 (0.33%) SRDF
8 1 (0.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.33%) XenApp
8 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 64 (21.26%) Terraform
3 32 (10.63%) Ansible
4 20 (6.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (5.65%) Grafana
6 15 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (3.99%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.99%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.99%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.66%) Argo
10 2 (0.66%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.66%) Puppet
10 2 (0.66%) SCCM
11 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.33%) Kibana
11 1 (0.33%) logstash
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 80 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.63%) Google
3 24 (7.97%) SAP
4 21 (6.98%) Oracle
5 17 (5.65%) ServiceNow
5 17 (5.65%) Splunk
6 16 (5.32%) F5
7 15 (4.98%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.98%) VMware
8 13 (4.32%) Cisco
9 9 (2.99%) Databricks
10 8 (2.66%) BeyondTrust
10 8 (2.66%) Okta
10 8 (2.66%) Thycotic
11 7 (2.33%) HP
12 6 (1.99%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.99%) Veritas
13 5 (1.66%) Apple
13 5 (1.66%) Brio
13 5 (1.66%) ESRI