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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 336 112 191
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.48% 11.84% 11.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.78% 33.14% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 78 129
10th Percentile £308 £263 £260
25th Percentile £423 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £522 £575
90th Percentile £681 £550 £634
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £49.15 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.75 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £53.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year +7.48% +45.58% -30.56%

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 966 338 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.64% 35.73% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 245 328
10th Percentile £304 £260 £213
25th Percentile £404 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £575
90th Percentile £625 £645 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 7
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 £13.40
25th Percentile £34.52 £31.47 £14.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £41.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% +173.33% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £15.38
90th Percentile £71.38 £102.00 £18.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +3 172 £488 +14.71% 138
South Yorkshire +9 116 £500 +5.26% 34
North Yorkshire +1 21 £450 +18.03% 16
East Yorkshire -4 15 £344 - 18
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 23 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.76%) Confluence
3 14 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.60%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.49%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.89%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (41.07%) AWS
2 102 (30.36%) GCP
3 67 (19.94%) Entra ID
4 48 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (14.29%) SaaS
5 46 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (10.71%) GitHub
7 33 (9.82%) Power Platform
8 26 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (6.55%) Serverless
10 21 (6.25%) OpenShift
10 21 (6.25%) PaaS
11 15 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (4.17%) Azure Storage
12 14 (4.17%) OneDrive
12 14 (4.17%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.87%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.87%) Azure Functions
14 12 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.36%) Firewall
2 17 (5.06%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.17%) DNS
3 14 (4.17%) WAN
4 13 (3.87%) LAN
4 13 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.68%) Kerberos
6 7 (2.08%) Network Security
6 7 (2.08%) SAN
6 7 (2.08%) SSL
7 6 (1.79%) IPsec
8 4 (1.19%) DHCP
8 4 (1.19%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.19%) VoIP
8 4 (1.19%) VPN
9 3 (0.89%) PSTN
9 3 (0.89%) VLAN
9 3 (0.89%) VSAN
10 2 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.25%) Power BI
1 21 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.79%) Metadata
6 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.49%) MySQL
6 5 (1.49%) Redis
7 4 (1.19%) Big Data
7 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.19%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.19%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.60%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (0.60%) DB2
8 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 42 (12.50%) JIRA
3 27 (8.04%) GitLab
4 20 (5.95%) Git
5 16 (4.76%) Selenium
6 15 (4.46%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.17%) Postman
8 13 (3.87%) REST Assured
9 9 (2.68%) Gatling
10 8 (2.38%) TestRail
11 5 (1.49%) JMeter
11 5 (1.49%) Maven
12 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.19%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.19%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.19%) Mocha
12 4 (1.19%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.19%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.60%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 112 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.67%) Finance
3 37 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.33%) Banking
6 21 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.76%) Publishing
8 12 (3.57%) Legal
9 8 (2.38%) Law
10 5 (1.49%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Social Science
12 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.30%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (15.77%) Architect
2 35 (10.42%) Senior
3 32 (9.52%) Lead
4 24 (7.14%) Developer
5 21 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (5.36%) Analyst
6 18 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.17%) Administrator
8 14 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (3.57%) Data Engineer
10 10 (2.98%) Consultant
10 10 (2.98%) IT Support
10 10 (2.98%) Software Engineer
10 10 (2.98%) Technical Architect
10 10 (2.98%) Test Automation Engineer
10 10 (2.98%) Test Engineer
11 9 (2.68%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (2.68%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.01%) REST
2 30 (8.93%) OpenID
3 25 (7.44%) LDAP
4 22 (6.55%) OAuth
5 21 (6.25%) .NET
6 19 (5.65%) SAML
7 18 (5.36%) SAP Basis
8 17 (5.06%) SailPoint
9 16 (4.76%) React
10 13 (3.87%) RESTful
11 12 (3.57%) Node.js
12 11 (3.27%) Playwright
13 10 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (2.98%) OAuth2
14 9 (2.68%) Middleware
14 9 (2.68%) Web Services
15 8 (2.38%) CSS
15 8 (2.38%) HTML
15 8 (2.38%) JWT
16 7 (2.08%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.01%) Onboarding
2 32 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 22 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (5.65%) Taxonomies
6 14 (4.17%) NHS
7 12 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.98%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.38%) IoT
9 8 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.79%) CMDB
11 6 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.49%) FlexPod
13 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.89%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.01%) Windows
2 23 (6.85%) Linux
3 8 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.08%) VMS
5 6 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.49%) CoreOS
6 5 (1.49%) Unix
6 5 (1.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.19%) Android
7 4 (1.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (36.90%) DevOps
2 120 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 77 (22.92%) Agile
4 63 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 53 (15.77%) Migration
6 52 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
8 44 (13.10%) Containerisation
9 43 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (11.01%) Test Automation
12 36 (10.71%) Data Governance
12 36 (10.71%) Microservices
13 34 (10.12%) Analytics
14 32 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
14 32 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (9.23%) AI
15 31 (9.23%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (9.23%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (22.02%) Python
2 58 (17.26%) SQL
3 43 (12.80%) Java
4 33 (9.82%) PowerShell
5 27 (8.04%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.95%) Bash
7 19 (5.65%) C#
8 14 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.38%) PHP
9 8 (2.38%) Scala
10 6 (1.79%) Bicep
10 6 (1.79%) Go
10 6 (1.79%) Groovy
11 4 (1.19%) Cypher
11 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) Rust
13 2 (0.60%) Solidity
13 2 (0.60%) XPath
14 1 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.44%) Degree
3 22 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.79%) CISSP
5 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.49%) OCP
5 5 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.89%) CCSP
7 3 (0.89%) CISM
7 3 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.60%) CCSK
8 2 (0.60%) CEH
8 2 (0.60%) CISA
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.55%) QA
2 18 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.68%) GDPR
4 8 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.08%) NIST
6 6 (1.79%) HL7
7 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.49%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.49%) SLA
7 5 (1.49%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.19%) WCAG
9 3 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.89%) PSD2
10 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.60%) PMO
11 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 44 (13.10%) Docker
2 35 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.68%) vSphere
6 7 (2.08%) NFS
7 5 (1.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.49%) RACF
8 3 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.60%) KVM
9 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.30%) Ceph
10 1 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.30%) QEMU
10 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) SRDF
10 1 (0.30%) XenApp
10 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 57 (16.96%) Terraform
3 32 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 27 (8.04%) Ansible
5 23 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.46%) Grafana
7 7 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.79%) SnapMirror
9 5 (1.49%) Istio
9 5 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.19%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.60%) Argo
11 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.30%) Kibana
12 1 (0.30%) logstash
12 1 (0.30%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 114 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.12%) Google
2 34 (10.12%) SAP
3 25 (7.44%) ServiceNow
4 23 (6.85%) Okta
5 17 (5.06%) Oracle
5 17 (5.06%) Splunk
6 14 (4.17%) Databricks
7 13 (3.87%) VMware
8 9 (2.68%) Cisco
8 9 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.68%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.38%) Brio
9 8 (2.38%) NetApp
10 6 (1.79%) Adobe
10 6 (1.79%) ESRI
10 6 (1.79%) Veeam
11 5 (1.49%) Aruba
11 5 (1.49%) Foundry
11 5 (1.49%) IBM