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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 364 104 199
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.40% 9.99% 11.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.99% 28.18% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 74 143
10th Percentile £331 £263 £280
25th Percentile £449 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -13.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £595
90th Percentile £688 £550 £644
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £22.55 - -
25th Percentile £54.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.25 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +10.71% -43.41%

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 984 369 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.92% 35.45% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 258 330
10th Percentile £325 £256 £257
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £560 £547 £588
90th Percentile £650 £614 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £20.75 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £70.85 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +10 176 £500 +17.65% 103
South Yorkshire +14 140 £510 +10.27% 31
North Yorkshire +4 17 £475 +31.03% 13
East Yorkshire +1 14 £325 - 5
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 28 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.67%) Confluence
3 14 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Acrobat
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (7.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.82%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 165 (45.33%) AWS
2 114 (31.32%) GCP
3 63 (17.31%) Entra ID
4 48 (13.19%) SaaS
5 47 (12.91%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.91%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (11.54%) GitHub
7 36 (9.89%) Power Platform
8 30 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (6.59%) Serverless
10 22 (6.04%) PaaS
11 21 (5.77%) OpenShift
12 18 (4.95%) PowerApps
13 15 (4.12%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.85%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (3.85%) OneDrive
15 13 (3.57%) IaaS
16 12 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.12%) Firewall
2 13 (3.57%) DNS
2 13 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.02%) WAN
4 10 (2.75%) Kerberos
4 10 (2.75%) LAN
4 10 (2.75%) Network Security
4 10 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.20%) SAN
6 6 (1.65%) SSL
6 6 (1.65%) VPN
7 5 (1.37%) IPsec
8 4 (1.10%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.82%) Internet
9 3 (0.82%) PSTN
9 3 (0.82%) VLAN
9 3 (0.82%) WLAN
10 2 (0.55%) NAS
10 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.27%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.22%) Power BI
4 18 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.20%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.92%) Metadata
8 6 (1.65%) Big Data
8 6 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.37%) MySQL
9 5 (1.37%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.55%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.27%) DB2
12 1 (0.27%) Redis
12 1 (0.27%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (15.93%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.19%) JIRA
3 30 (8.24%) GitLab
4 26 (7.14%) Git
5 14 (3.85%) Gatling
5 14 (3.85%) Selenium
6 13 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.57%) REST Assured
7 11 (3.02%) Postman
8 8 (2.20%) Maven
9 6 (1.65%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.37%) JMeter
10 5 (1.37%) TestRail
11 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.10%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.10%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.82%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 116 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 83 (22.80%) Finance
3 35 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.07%) Banking
5 32 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.04%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.40%) Publishing
8 8 (2.20%) Law
9 7 (1.92%) Legal
10 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.82%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.82%) Military
14 2 (0.55%) Retail
14 2 (0.55%) Social Science
15 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (14.56%) Architect
2 44 (12.09%) Lead
3 43 (11.81%) Senior
4 33 (9.07%) Developer
5 29 (7.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.67%) Analyst
9 15 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.85%) Administrator
10 14 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.57%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.02%) Consultant
12 11 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (3.02%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.75%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.75%) Test Automation Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.47%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.47%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.71%) REST
2 33 (9.07%) OpenID
3 26 (7.14%) LDAP
4 23 (6.32%) .NET
5 20 (5.49%) OAuth
6 18 (4.95%) SailPoint
6 18 (4.95%) SAP Basis
7 16 (4.40%) SAML
8 14 (3.85%) Playwright
9 12 (3.30%) Middleware
9 12 (3.30%) OAuth2
9 12 (3.30%) Web Services
10 11 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (3.02%) React
11 10 (2.75%) RESTful
12 9 (2.47%) Kafka
12 9 (2.47%) SOAP
13 8 (2.20%) Node.js
14 7 (1.92%) PySpark
15 6 (1.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.26%) Onboarding
2 34 (9.34%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.49%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.49%) Taxonomies
5 10 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.47%) NHS
7 7 (1.92%) IoT
8 6 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.37%) CMDB
9 5 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.37%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.62%) Windows
2 28 (7.69%) Linux
3 8 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.20%) VMS
4 6 (1.65%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.65%) Unix
5 5 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.10%) Android
6 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.82%) AIX
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (40.11%) DevOps
2 139 (38.19%) CI/CD
3 92 (25.27%) Agile
4 69 (18.96%) Roadmaps
5 56 (15.38%) Migration
6 53 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (13.19%) Containerisation
8 48 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 44 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
10 42 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (10.99%) Observability
13 39 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
14 37 (10.16%) Test Automation
15 36 (9.89%) Analytics
15 36 (9.89%) Data Governance
15 36 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
16 35 (9.62%) Microservices
16 35 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.25%) Python
2 59 (16.21%) SQL
3 56 (15.38%) Java
4 34 (9.34%) PowerShell
5 23 (6.32%) Bash
6 19 (5.22%) C#
6 19 (5.22%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.85%) Scala
8 8 (2.20%) Bicep
8 8 (2.20%) Go
8 8 (2.20%) PHP
8 8 (2.20%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.37%) Groovy
9 5 (1.37%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.37%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.10%) Cypher
11 3 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.27%) ABAP
13 1 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 39 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.24%) Degree
3 26 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.92%) CISSP
7 6 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.65%) CISM
7 6 (1.65%) PMP
8 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.37%) OCP
8 5 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.10%) CCSP
9 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.82%) CCSK
11 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.22%) QA
2 13 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.20%) NIST
4 7 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.65%) SLA
6 4 (1.10%) GRC
6 4 (1.10%) HL7
6 4 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.55%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (11.26%) Docker
2 33 (9.07%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.20%) NFS
6 7 (1.92%) vSphere
7 5 (1.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.37%) RACF
8 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.27%) SRDF
10 1 (0.27%) XenApp
10 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 70 (19.23%) Terraform
3 31 (8.52%) Single Sign-On
4 26 (7.14%) Ansible
5 20 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.12%) Grafana
7 9 (2.47%) HAProxy
7 9 (2.47%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.65%) SnapMirror
10 5 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.37%) Istio
11 3 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.55%) Argo
12 2 (0.55%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.27%) Kibana
13 1 (0.27%) logstash
13 1 (0.27%) SELinux
13 1 (0.27%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 127 (34.89%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.89%) ServiceNow
3 35 (9.62%) Google
3 35 (9.62%) SAP
4 26 (7.14%) Okta
5 22 (6.04%) Databricks
6 18 (4.95%) Oracle
7 14 (3.85%) VMware
8 10 (2.75%) Splunk
9 9 (2.47%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.47%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.92%) NetApp
11 6 (1.65%) Brio
11 6 (1.65%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.65%) IBM
11 6 (1.65%) Veeam
12 5 (1.37%) Adobe
12 5 (1.37%) Aruba
12 5 (1.37%) Cisco
12 5 (1.37%) Foundry