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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 429 175 195
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.01% 11.47% 12.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.78% 31.42% 37.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 111 137
10th Percentile £331 £313 £370
25th Percentile £413 £374 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £610
90th Percentile £688 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +7.14% -24.21%

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 1,052 557 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.80% 36.50% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 386 356
10th Percentile £306 £256 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £493
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -4.67% -6.19%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £653
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 5
10th Percentile £15.03 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.13 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +5 208 £488 -1.52% 202
South Yorkshire +9 158 £518 +17.02% 61
North Yorkshire +9 34 £488 +77.27% 31
East Yorkshire -2 4 £313 - 14
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 46 (10.72%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.29%) Confluence
3 20 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.40%) Apache
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 171 (39.86%) AWS
2 117 (27.27%) GCP
3 74 (17.25%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (16.55%) GitHub
5 67 (15.62%) Power Platform
6 63 (14.69%) Entra ID
7 62 (14.45%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (6.29%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (4.90%) OneDrive
12 19 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (3.96%) SaaS
15 16 (3.73%) Serverless
16 15 (3.50%) Copilot Studio
17 13 (3.03%) Azure AI
17 13 (3.03%) Power Automate
18 11 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 11 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.59%) DNS
1 24 (5.59%) Firewall
2 18 (4.20%) Network Security
3 15 (3.50%) VPN
4 14 (3.26%) LAN
4 14 (3.26%) WAN
5 13 (3.03%) VLAN
6 12 (2.80%) DHCP
6 12 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (2.80%) WLAN
7 10 (2.33%) BGP
7 10 (2.33%) OSPF
8 7 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (1.63%) SAN
8 7 (1.63%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.40%) Wireless
10 5 (1.17%) IPsec
10 5 (1.17%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.39%) Power BI
1 36 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (3.96%) Metadata
5 14 (3.26%) Big Data
6 11 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.63%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.40%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.17%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.17%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (1.17%) Tableau
11 4 (0.93%) Redis
11 4 (0.93%) Trino
12 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (13.29%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.42%) JIRA
3 29 (6.76%) Git
4 15 (3.50%) GitLab
5 12 (2.80%) Gatling
6 8 (1.86%) Maven
6 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.40%) JMeter
7 6 (1.40%) Selenium
8 5 (1.17%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.93%) Postman
10 3 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.70%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.47%) JUnit
11 2 (0.47%) MSBuild
General
1 116 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 107 (24.94%) Finance
3 36 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.46%) Banking
6 16 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.26%) Law
8 9 (2.10%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.10%) Retail
8 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.40%) Social Science
10 5 (1.17%) Legal
11 4 (0.93%) Military
11 4 (0.93%) Publishing
12 3 (0.70%) Police
13 2 (0.47%) Billing
13 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (16.32%) Architect
2 58 (13.52%) Senior
3 54 (12.59%) Lead
4 37 (8.62%) Developer
5 34 (7.93%) Data Engineer
6 33 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.83%) Analyst
7 25 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.50%) Technical Architect
12 14 (3.26%) Consultant
13 13 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
15 11 (2.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.56%) Security Engineer
16 10 (2.33%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (22.61%) Terraform
2 40 (9.32%) REST
3 25 (5.83%) .NET
4 24 (5.59%) Kafka
5 16 (3.73%) React
6 14 (3.26%) Playwright
7 13 (3.03%) Web Services
8 12 (2.80%) OAuth
8 12 (2.80%) PySpark
8 12 (2.80%) SailPoint
8 12 (2.80%) SOAP
9 11 (2.56%) .NET Core
9 11 (2.56%) ASP.NET
9 11 (2.56%) JSON
10 10 (2.33%) OpenID
11 9 (2.10%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.86%) LDAP
12 8 (1.86%) SAML
12 8 (1.86%) SAP Basis
13 7 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.45%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.76%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 23 (5.36%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.43%) AI Agents
7 17 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (3.73%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.63%) PKI
12 7 (1.63%) Replication
13 6 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.40%) Taxonomies
14 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 51 (11.89%) Windows
2 26 (6.06%) Linux
3 25 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.17%) Android
4 5 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.70%) AIX
6 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.47%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.47%) Unix
7 2 (0.47%) VMS
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (38.23%) CI/CD
2 153 (35.66%) DevOps
3 98 (22.84%) Agile
4 86 (20.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 70 (16.32%) AI
7 63 (14.69%) Observability
7 63 (14.69%) Roadmaps
8 60 (13.99%) Analytics
8 60 (13.99%) Cybersecurity
9 54 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
10 52 (12.12%) Migration
11 50 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
13 46 (10.72%) Data Engineering
13 46 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 43 (10.02%) Software Engineering
14 43 (10.02%) Test Automation
15 41 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (9.09%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.68%) Python
2 59 (13.75%) SQL
3 53 (12.35%) Java
4 45 (10.49%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.59%) C#
6 17 (3.96%) Bash
6 17 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.80%) Bicep
8 10 (2.33%) Groovy
8 10 (2.33%) Scala
9 9 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.10%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.17%) ABAP
11 5 (1.17%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) Go
14 1 (0.23%) Cypher
14 1 (0.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 68 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.83%) Degree
4 18 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.33%) CISSP
9 8 (1.86%) CCNP
9 8 (1.86%) CISM
10 7 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.40%) CCSP
12 5 (1.17%) CCSK
12 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.17%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.17%) PMP
13 3 (0.70%) CRISC
13 3 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.90%) QA
3 11 (2.56%) NIST
4 10 (2.33%) GDPR
5 8 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 7 (1.63%) WCAG
7 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.93%) GRC
8 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.70%) GxP
9 3 (0.70%) PMO
9 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.47%) IASME
10 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (14.45%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.29%) Docker
3 12 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.63%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.17%) vSphere
8 4 (0.93%) NFS
8 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.70%) SRDF
10 2 (0.47%) Firmware
11 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.23%) Ceph
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 91 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.99%) Ansible
3 28 (6.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.43%) Grafana
5 16 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.10%) HAProxy
9 6 (1.40%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.93%) SnapMirror
10 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.70%) Argo
11 3 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.70%) Packer
11 3 (0.70%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.47%) Podman
12 2 (0.47%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.47%) vMotion
Vendors
1 152 (35.43%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.49%) Databricks
3 26 (6.06%) Google
4 24 (5.59%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.20%) CyberArk
5 18 (4.20%) SAP
6 16 (3.73%) Cisco
6 16 (3.73%) Foundry
7 12 (2.80%) Splunk
7 12 (2.80%) VMware
8 11 (2.56%) Oracle
9 10 (2.33%) IBM
9 10 (2.33%) Okta
10 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.63%) Centrify
11 7 (1.63%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.63%) Citrix
11 7 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.63%) Palo Alto